Category Archives: Entropy

‘Holdovers’ is a beautiful window into an uninteresting past

Posted on January 19, 2024 by reelentropy

Barton Academy somewhere in New England, December, 1970- Ready to head home from boarding school over Christmas break, Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa) is abandoned by his mother to be one of five holdovers, and soon the only holdover, who stays … Continue reading →

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All is true of ‘Saltburn,’ a modern Gothic class-war nightmare

Posted on January 19, 2024 by reelentropy

At face value, Saltburn is a simple but extremely colorful story about sex and power dynamics across gender and class lines with a Parasite-esque narrative that twists and coils and becomes something else, and there’s even more to it than that. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Lionsgate packages ‘Hunger Games’ for the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ market, because it that’s been going so well

Posted on January 19, 2024 by reelentropy

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a horrendous title. It’s about three times as long as it should be, painful to say and somehow even more embarrassing than a placeholder like “Untitled Hunger Games Prequel” might … Continue reading →

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Watching, or not, as ‘Marvels’ fail

Posted on January 18, 2024 by reelentropy

For the past several years as Disney pivoted toward a streaming-first business model, the company line has been that instead of movies about individual heroes leading into a bigger crossover movie, they’ll have solo TV shows, and every movie will … Continue reading →

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Sofia Coppolla covers familiar ground in ‘Priscilla’

Posted on January 3, 2024 by reelentropy

A long-noted omission from the great American tradition of masturbatory, near-identical musician biopics, Elvis has now been the subject of two movies in as many years – though in both films, Elvis himself is a distant figure. First, Elvis, Baz … Continue reading →

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