Category Archives: Entropy

‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ is garbage

Posted on February 7, 2018 by reelentropy

1/10 Paramount Pictures decided just a few weeks ago that selling The Cloverfield Project to Netflix would be more profitable than releasing it in theaters, and they were almost certainly right. While Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane rode critical acclaim … Continue reading →

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‘Winchester’s’ sharp story cut down by dull scares

Posted on February 2, 2018 by reelentropy

5/10 Winchester is wonderfully written and pretty cleverly directed, but gets major points off for its technical problems. In 1906 San Francisco, psychologist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) has been driven to despair and drug abuse by his wife’s untimely death. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #civil war, #helen mirren, #jason Clarke, Spierig brothers, Winchester | 1 Comment

‘The Last Key’ decent, dragged down by ‘Insidious’ hallmarks

Posted on January 23, 2018 by reelentropy

4/10 You thought I’d forgotten about Insidious, didn’t you? No, we remember. Even if no one else- What?! It opened at almost $30 million? Guess January isn’t the dead zone it used to be. Insidious: The Last Key sees franchise … Continue reading →

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‘Phantom Thread’ arrives in wide release

Posted on January 18, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 Undoubtedly the coolest title of 2017, Phantom Thread, has finally arrived in theaters. Why is it called that? Why did a movie with artistic heavyweights Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis take this long to get here? Who knows. … Continue reading →

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‘I, Tonya’ sticks landing

Posted on January 17, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 In the early 1990s, trailer trash reject Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie, McKenna Grace as a child) bullied her way through prejudice to the height of figure skating artistry. The movie about her life, I, Tonya, follows right in her … Continue reading →

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