Category Archives: Entropy

If Kick-Ass was Kill Bill meets Superbad, Kingsman: The Secret Service is Deathproof meets Trading Places meets Octopussy.  A wobbly adaptation of the six-issue Mark Millar limited series The Secret Service, the movie is a combination of willfully recycled rags-to-riches and super spy tropes. The main character, high school and military dropout Eggsy Unwin (Taron … Continue reading →

The target audience for Fifty Shades of Grey is women who are somehow both older than 17 and still immature enough that nudity makes them giggle, but it does have much more to offer as a film. The movie follows Ana Steele … Continue reading →

Well, if you wanted a feature-length episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, here you go. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’s advertising — and title, for that matter — hinged mostly on the scenes where SpongeBob SquarePants (Tom Kenny) and crew are on the … Continue reading →

Remember The Hurt Locker? Well, American Sniper is basically that with a sniper instead of a bomb disposal expert. The movie tells the ostensibly mostly true story of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper, who also produces), a SEAL sniper who accumulated 160 confirmed out of 255 … Continue reading →

The “It ends here” tagline plays heavily in the advertising, but there’s nothing material preventing a Taken 4. In his third go ’round the super-retired-spy block, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is now the target of a massive LAPD manhunt after his … Continue reading →