Category Archives: Entropy

Chappie is a truly inexcusable movie, the kind that would be laughed out of most entry-level film classes. The fact that this script and this director and these plot elements can get $50 million budget and wide release is staggering. Writer/director … Continue reading →

Focus is a truly unpredictable movie, one that lies to the audience as much as its con man main character lies to his marks. It’s tough to say what the film is about as a whole. It’s really broken down into … Continue reading →

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 →