Category Archives: Entropy

Direct-to-DVD remake of Rosemary’s Baby shipped to wrong address, debuts in theaters instead

Annabelle is one of the worst movies ever made and James Wan needs to, just, quit. He only serves as a producer for this spin-off of last year’s The Conjuring. That film opened with a creepy doll named Annabelle, and … Continue reading

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Gone Girl a mystery worth investigating

So, it turns out that … gyaaah, I can’t spoil it! The movie Gone Girl, based on screenwriter Gillian Flynn’s massively successful 2012 novel, follows Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) after the other part of his unhappy marriage, Amy (Rosamund Pike), disappears … Continue reading

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Denzel Washington diagnosed with Neeson’s disease

The Equalizer was adapted from a 1980s television series, and it’s pretty easy to tell. The movie stars Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, a retired special forces agent living the quiet life in. McCall is struggling with a case of … Continue reading

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Adult-family dramety fails to stand out

Jason Bateman has a scraggly, patchy beard that really doesn’t work for him. Presumably because of that, his character, Judd Altman, starts This is Where I Leave You by walking in on his wife (Abigail Spencer) doing it with his … Continue reading

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Tombstones a novel-like movie, which is a novel concept considering that it was adapted from a novel

A Walk Among the Tombstones, based on one of Lawrence Block’s novels about private detective Matthew Scudder, looks like it would have been a fantastic book. The film stars Liam Neeson as the title character. An alcoholic eight years sober, … Continue reading

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