Category Archives: Entropy

DC’s gleeful ‘Shazam!’ is the best Marvel movie in years

Posted on April 15, 2019 by reelentropy

8/10 Less than a month after the hotly anticipated Captain Marvel flew onto screens, Warner Bros. and DC have released a significantly better Captain Marvel movie in Shazam! In 1974, a young Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong, Ethan Pugiotto as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #batman v superman, #man of steel, Asher Angel, Big, Captain Marvel, David F. Sandberg, Fast and the Furious, Mark Strong, Shazam!, Zachary Levi | 3 Comments

Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ nobody’s baby

Posted on April 6, 2019 by reelentropy

3/10 When a movie is advertised as “from the imagination of Tim Burton,” you tend to go into it expecting a real blue-blooded Tim Burton passion project, one that he really took ownership of and fought hard to get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #alice in wonderland, #Disney, #michael keaton, #the lion king, #tim burton, Aladdin, bad, charlie and the chocolate factory, Collin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Derek Frey, Dumbo, Ehren Kruger, Eva Green, it's a goddamn goldmine, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Nico Parker, over-produced, The Ring, Transformers, ugly, under-directed | Leave a comment

‘Us’ a triumph of genre, auteur filmmaking

Posted on March 24, 2019 by reelentropy

9/10 Leaving the theater for the first time, the only thing I’m 100 percent sure about Us is that I need to see it again. At their vacation home in Santa Cruz, California, the Wilson family, mother Adelaide, father Gabe … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #lupita nyongo, #the witch, doppelganger, Get Out, Hands Across America, Hereditary, Jordan Peele, smart horror, Suspiria, Us, Winston Duke | Leave a comment

‘Captain Marvel’ is everything that drives me up a wall about the MCU, I hate it so much

Posted on March 8, 2019 by reelentropy

6/10 It is such a tremendously good thing that Captain Marvel is a movie that exists, but could the movie itself have been good? Is that really so much to ask? In 1996 on the Kree homeworld of Hala, Vers … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #brie larson, #charlize theron, #Disney, #mcu, #samuel l jackson, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Atomic Blonde, Ben Davis, Ben Mendelsohn, Captain Marvel, Debbie Berman, Elliot Graham, Guardians of the Galaxy, Lashana Lynch, Marvel, Nicole Perlman | 1 Comment

‘Cold War’ artsy fartsy, would be cooler if it weren’t

Posted on February 7, 2019 by reelentropy

4/10 After debuting in May 2018 at Cannes, where writer/director Paweł Pawlikowski won the festival’s best director award, and rolling out across several film markets overseas over a period of months, Polish- and French-language period drama Cold War has finally … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #cold war, Joanna Kulig, Lukasz Zal, Pawel Pawlikowski, Roma, Tomasz Kot | Leave a comment