Category Archives: Entropy

‘It: Chapter Two’ is boring, homosexist and three hours long

Posted on September 7, 2019 by reelentropy

2/10 I can’t believe they got James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain to show up for this. Derry, Maine, 2016- You saw It, and for some reason, loved it. Now it’s 27 years later, and Pennywise, the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård) … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #bill hader, #Disney, #james mcavoy, #jessica chastain, #lord of the rings, #oscars, #star wars, #warner bros., Bill Skarsgard, epic horror film, Finn Wolfhard, It, It: Chapter Two, The Godfather | Leave a comment

Margot Robbie’s ‘Hide and Seek’ a hellish delight

Posted on August 29, 2019 by reelentropy

8/10 Sifting through an August overflowing with movies that wouldn’t compete with Disney for the prime summer months, we find another one of the last Fox movies, unceremoniously dumped on a mid-August Wednesday by its new owner, ironically, Disney. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #margot robbie, a dumbwaiter or a basement full or corpses, Far From Home, Hide and Seek, Midsomman, Ready or Not, Samara Weaving, Spider-Man | 2 Comments

They can’t make ‘Quality has Fallen’ puns when the quality was already pretty low

Posted on August 25, 2019 by reelentropy

3/10 I really don’t want to think about Gerard Butler as a weirdo-James Woods type who makes movies to deliberately overcorrect for “liberal Hollywood” because he’s so talented, but it’s getting kind of ridiculous. The guy’s from Glasgow, but he’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #gerard butler, #london has fallen, #morgan freeman, #nick nolte, Angel has Fallen, Die Hard, Everything has Fallen, Gerard Butler has Fallen and he Can't Get Up, James Woods, Olympus has Fallen, Your pants have fallen | Leave a comment

‘Kitchen’ not worth watching, and no one did

Posted on August 15, 2019 by reelentropy

3/10 The Kitchen is a story about women who stage a hostile takeover of a traditional men’s space. It’s a pun! Get it? Because it’s, when that happens, the traditional response is to tell the woman to “get back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #domhnall gleeson, #hell's kitchen, #new york city, #rotten tomatoes, Andrea Berloff, Elizabeth Moss, girl power, Melissa McCarthy, The Kitchen, Tiffany Haddish, Widows | 1 Comment

Decent ‘Scary Stories’ can’t capture books’ magic

Posted on August 15, 2019 by reelentropy

7/10 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a film caught between its iconic source material and a risk-averse production that leans heavily on the exhausting, bland choices common in the past decade’s horror. Still, there are significant highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #guillermo del toro, #pulp fiction, #sin city, Insidious, Ouija, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Seven Psychopaths, Stranger Things, The Bye Bye Man, The Conjuring, Truth or Dare | Leave a comment