Category Archives: Entropy

‘Happytime Murders’ less Muppets, more McCarthy

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 I was optimistic for The Happytime Murders. Director/producer Brian Henson, Jim Henson’s son, is obviously more a Muppet guy than a Melissa McCarthy guy, and I was hoping this would be more of a Muppet movie than a Melissa … Continue reading →

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Aspiring franchise-starter ‘Mile 22’ trips at the starting line

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 Mile 22 is from director/producer Peter Berg and star/producer Mark Wahlberg, the creative team that has dedicated itself recently to hyper-jingoistic movies like Lone Survivor and Patriots Day, and they aren’t all that bad. Deepwater Horizon in particular is … Continue reading →

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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is terrible

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 In the late August dead zone, which this year was filled with some fairly interesting releases, Crazy Rich Asians spent three weeks at the top of the box office, including Labor Day weekend, a run that included an astonishingly … Continue reading →

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‘BlacKkKlansman’ too focused on its fiction

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

5/10 BlacKkKlansman opens on footage from Gone with the Wind, a famous crane shot of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivian Leigh) tending to wounded Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Atlanta. It then cuts to an extended scene of Dr. Kennebrow Beauregard … Continue reading →

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Only official ‘Slender Man’ movie is the worst ‘Slender Man’ movie

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

1/10 And now to dissect Slender Man, the movie its own studio didn’t want you to see. In rural Massachusetts, four bored teenagers summon the Slender Man. They do this by watching a video on the Internet straight out of … Continue reading →

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