Category Archives: Entropy

Mystery box of ‘Weapons’ is, predictably, empty

There’s a new mystery box dealer in Hollywood. His boxes are also empty. The mystery box is always empty. Maybrook, Pennsylvania, 2:17 a.m. on a Wednesday- Seventeen children from the same class at Maybrook Elementary, as one, get out of … Continue reading →

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New ‘Superman’ flies low under a long shadow

After 12 excruciating years, Warner Bros. has given up the ghost and paved over the muddy, miserable Man of Steel with a sunny, cheerful new Superman movie, with James Gunn as writer, director and producer and affixed as the chief … Continue reading →

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MCU returns to form – an unwatchable CGI nightmare

In Captain America: New World – woah, WOAH! This movie is titled what now? OK. OK, that’s better. In Captain America: New World Order Brave New World, after the COVID-19 crisis and the 2023 double-strike combined to form a long … Continue reading →

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‘Longlegs’ shakes the horror genre, will turn your stomach and bust you gut in one night out

Writer/director Oz Perkins’ new masterpiece Longlegs is going to change horror forever. It’s an absolute knockout, eerie, haunting and disquieting while also just joyful enough to put several grins on your face. Oregon, 1990s- FBI Special Agent Lee Harker (Maika … Continue reading →

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I don’t run screaming out of theaters often, but ‘The Zone of Interest’ got me there

The Zone of Interest is a soul-shaking historical document, closer to a docudrama or recreation than a traditional film.   Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Nazi-occupied Poland, summer, 1943- Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig (Christian Friedel and … Continue reading →

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