Category Archives: Entropy

The poorly fitting patchwork of del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’

Posted on November 17, 2025 by reelentropy

What’s happened is writer/director/producer Guillermo del Toro has made the same movie he’s been making for 30 years and stitched a heavily altered Sparknotes version of “Frankenstein” overtop of it, just detailed enough that you’ll hear some of the main … Continue reading →

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‘Badlands’ second Disney-era ‘Predator’ movie, second new franchise best

Posted on November 11, 2025 by reelentropy

Predator: Badlands is a movie, a real one, the kind you grew up hearing about. It’s got everything – constant action, adventure to far-away lands, coming of age, complex relationships between technology and nature, rugged individualism weighed against a communal … Continue reading →

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‘Megalopolis,’ Coppola’s triumphant ode to human nature

Posted on October 14, 2025 by reelentropy

Megalopolis is the masterpiece at the end of time, the scrambled ramblings of an octogenarian who has watched the world rise out of and fall back into fascism, at once resigned, hopeful, crass, depraved, bitterly audacious and frequently laugh-out-loud funny … Continue reading →

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‘The Substance:’ permission to hurt yourself

Posted on October 14, 2025 by reelentropy

The Substance is an indie masterpiece destined to turn filmmaking on its head overnight with its furious satire, retro techniques and list of B-movie references so long it reminds me of Pulp Fiction, another Franken-movie built out of references to … Continue reading →

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Letting yourself get tricked by ‘The Conjuring’ one last time

Posted on September 12, 2025 by reelentropy

For 15 years, the Insidious/Conjuring series have been my bane, these stupid, colorless Halloween costume movies that rake in money hand over fist on name recognition and nothing else. Lately, however, New Line Cinema has affixed The Conjuring series with … Continue reading →

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