Category Archives: Entropy

Decent ‘Overlord’ fails commercially

Posted on November 30, 2018 by reelentropy

5/10 Overlord is a quiet little action/horror movie about Nazi zombies that passed through theaters without much notice, failing spectacularly to stronger intellectual properties like Dr. Seuss and Harry Potter. Overlord follows Private Ed Boyce (Jovan Adepo) and demolitions expert … Continue reading →

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Sony is a terrible company that makes bad decisions: a ‘Girl in the Spider’s Web’ story

Posted on November 29, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 In 2011, Sony released its English-language adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by David Fincher and starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, and it was a huge success. It pulled in $232.6 million worldwide for the … Continue reading →

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Once again, Disney loses tens of millions to bring you a terrible film

Posted on November 26, 2018 by reelentropy

3/10 In 2010, Alice went back into Wonderland to discover an ungodly amount of money, the kind of money that, at the time, could put a movie into the upper stratosphere of all-time projects. Disney would send her back in … Continue reading →

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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is incoherent, over-produced nonsense

Posted on November 26, 2018 by reelentropy

1/10 The more I learn, the more I realize Bohemian Rhapsody is a vicious, intentionally revisionist insult to Freddie Mercury, the history of rock-and-roll, the very concept of film as an art form and the hundreds of thousands killed in … Continue reading →

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‘Suspiria’ is thoughtful, but it’s tough to watch two movies at once

Posted on November 26, 2018 by reelentropy

6/10 Suspiria, a forgettable proto-slasher from 1977 that became a cult classic in retrospect, has been remade for 2018, and director/producer Luca Guadagnino has done something rather thoughtful with it. The original is set in West Germany – Freiburg, to … Continue reading →

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