Category Archives: Entropy

Mystery box of ‘Weapons’ is, predictably, empty

Posted on August 8, 2025 by reelentropy

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 →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Barbarian, J.J. Abrams, Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Prisoners, Weapons, Zach Cregger | 1 Comment

New ‘Superman’ flies low under a long shadow

Posted on July 11, 2025 by reelentropy

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 →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged David Corenswet, DCEU, DCU, Elon Musk, James Gunn, Long live the DCU, Man of Steel, MCU, Nicholas Hoult, Suicide Squad, Superman, The Batman, The DCEU is dead, The Suicide Squad, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder | Leave a comment

MCU returns to form – an unwatchable CGI nightmare

Posted on March 1, 2025 by reelentropy

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 →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #anthony mackie, #mcu, Anthony Mackie, Captain America, Captain America: Brave New World, captain america: civil war, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Disney, Harrison Ford, Marvel, Marvel Studios, The Incredible Hulk | Leave a comment

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

Posted on July 22, 2024 by reelentropy

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 →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Longlegs, maika monroe, Mandy, Nicolas Cage, Oz Perkins, Satanic Panic, Silence of the Lambs with more Satan, The Blackcoat's Daughter, The Witch | Leave a comment

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

Posted on April 24, 2024 by reelentropy

The Zone of Interest is a soul-shaking historical document, closer to a docudrama or recreation than a traditional film.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 →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Johnnie Burn, Jonathan Glazer, Schindler's List, The Zone of Interest | Leave a comment