Category Archives: Entropy

Get Hard hardly gets the stereotypes it tries to roast

If you don’t know what people mean when they talk about casual racism, check out Get Hard. After James King (Will Ferrell) is framed for embezzlement and insider trading and sentenced to 10 years in maximum security, he offers $30,000 to … Continue reading

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Home displays no reason to live

Watching Home, a viewer may well find his or herself contemplating his own existence. What meaning can one’s life really have if one is watching this movie? The movie follows Oh (Jim Parsons), a clumsy member of a peaceful but invasive alien … Continue reading

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Insurgent: Matrix rip-off or Matrix tribute?

Insurgent picks up six months after then first film with the lead characters’ discovery that the machines are drilling into Zion. Wait a minute… Insurgent picks up three days after Divergent with the lead characters on the run from the Erudite ruling class, which … Continue reading

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Run All Night decent, too little too late

Run All Night’s primary purpose is to fill a market niche opposite Cinderella, but it’s a  more than serviceable action movie in its own right. It’s a story of parallels between Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), a drug lord with his life together and … Continue reading

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Cinderella still a thing in 2015, which is a problem

The first version of Cinderella seems to be Rhodopis, a Greek courtesan who is married by the king of Egypt after he becomes enthralled with her tiny feet in first century B.C. We next see a much more familiar rendition … Continue reading

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