Category Archives: Entropy

‘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 →

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The Zone of Interest is a soul-shaking historical document, closer to a docudrama or recreation than a traditional film.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

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Simulacra, simulation, ‘Mean Girls’

Posted on April 22, 2024 by reelentropy

Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr, 2024) is an adaptation of a Broadway musical that was itself an adaptation of the iconic 2004 film Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004), and it’s exactly what it looks like. North Shore … Continue reading →

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‘Foreign Correspondent,’ live from Washington

Posted on April 18, 2024 by reelentropy

Alex Garland’s Civil War is a pulse-pounding, eye-popping masterpiece from start to finish. The Londoner has seen this country’s heart, which is not difficult right now from that distance, and brought it to screen in such accuracy that many Americans … Continue reading →

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Making kayfabe the villain in ‘The Iron Claw’

Posted on March 31, 2024 by reelentropy

Denton, Texas- In the 1950s, professional wrestler Jack Adkisson incorporates his grandmother’s maiden name to develop a Nazi-themed “heel” character, Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany), and all of his sons and grandsons who follow in his footsteps adopt the Von … Continue reading →

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