Category Archives: Entropy

Sinister lives up to name, down to expectations

Posted on August 23, 2015 by reelentropy

Sinister 2 is mostly exactly what you’d expect, and as a case study it may represent people finally getting tired of all these cheap, grainy horror movies. The film sets up several storylines which parallel and converge quite gracefully. In one, the … Continue reading →

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And then they cast him as Lex Luthor

Posted on August 20, 2015 by reelentropy

American Ultra has two major problems — it’s completely tone deaf, and the lead is one of the most sloppily written characters of the year. That lead, Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg), is a stoner living with his girlfriend, Phoebe Larson (Kristen … Continue reading →

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Straight Outta ways to tell a story

Posted on August 13, 2015 by reelentropy

Biopics can go one of two ways — a ritualistic re-telling of a historic caricature or an encapsulation of the conflict and triumph in an individual’s life. Straight Outta Compton, perhaps more sadly than any other, is the former. The movie goes … Continue reading →

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’60s adaptation aggressively, overwhelmingly funny

Posted on August 13, 2015 by reelentropy

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is the perfect date movie, in that I want to take this movie out on a date. The beautiful and charming movie, based on the 1960s television series, thrusts Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill), a master thief blackmailed … Continue reading →

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The Gift one of the best movies I’ve ever seen

Posted on August 12, 2015 by reelentropy

You can mark Aug. 7, 2015 down as a weekend the critics won the box office. Fantastic Four, initially tracking at around $45 million, went down to $40 million when the putrid reviews hit, and the wheels came off even further over … Continue reading →

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