Category Archives: Entropy

Trainwreck a reminder why rom coms were popular in the first place

Trainwreck isn’t the shot in the arm that will reignite our flame with the formulaic American rom-com, but it will remind us why we fell in love with it in the first place. Written by and starring Comedy Central upstart Amy … Continue reading →

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Ant-Man fun, neglects great underlying story

Ant-Man shoots off at the blistering pace of a post-2000 Scorsese movie or a heist comedy, but it takes shortcuts to get there and some important aspects fall through the cracks. The movie stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, a clever thief … Continue reading →

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The Gallows generic, visually dynamic

The Gallows is generic found-footage horror, but in the end it’s quite a likable addition to the endlessly self-replicating subgenre. The film opens with the original 1993 Beatrice High School production of “The Gallows,” which ends tragically when Charlie Grimille (Jesse Cross), … Continue reading →

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ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED

There’s been a lot of noise about the McDonald’s Happy Meal toys cursing, exposing children to language that their virgin ears just shouldn’t hear. What they’re really saying is far more sinister. The toys in question are tied in to the … Continue reading →

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New stripping movie all talk, no strip

In the title Magic Mike XXL, the XXL is supposed to mean extra extra large, implicitly referring to the lead character’s penis. However, at an astounding 130 minutes, about 10 of which is stripping and about a million of which is lame, stiff … Continue reading →

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