Category Archives: Entropy

Movie about one of Hollywood’s best writers poorly written

Posted on December 10, 2015 by reelentropy

Trumbo can easily be reduced to one word, and that word is “ironic.” The film tells the relatively true story of Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), a communist screenwriter who won two academy awards for Roman Holiday and The Brave One despite being blacklisted from Hollywood … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn is the worst thing a movie can be — boring

Posted on December 10, 2015 by reelentropy

Brooklyn has received rave reviews, and I have absolutely no idea why. It’s not a bad movie, it’s worse — it’s a bland movie. Based on Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel, the film is about Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young woman moving … Continue reading →

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Holiday flick too tame for a B movie

Posted on December 9, 2015 by reelentropy

From Jurassic World to Minions to Straight Outta Compton, Universal Pictures has been very nice this year, and it looks like the studio just found a small franchise in its stocking. Krampus follows an unhappy extended family celebrating Christmas together. The main character, a young boy named … Continue reading →

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Creed could have been excellent, isn’t

Posted on November 29, 2015 by reelentropy

Hailed as the best movie of the year, Creed is exactly the kind of overlong, deliriously predictable feature that comes away with its accolades for all the wrong reasons. The movie follows Donnie Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the illegitimate son of Apollo … Continue reading →

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Good Dinosaur one of Pixar’s worst

Posted on November 29, 2015 by reelentropy

Pixar draws emotions. They bring us high and they bring us low. Inside Out brought critics high. The Good Dinosaur brings them low. Set in an alternate timeline when the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs missed, The Good Dinosaur follows Arlo (Raymond Ochoa), an apatosaurus born … Continue reading →

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