Category Archives: Entropy

Snowden is an actual good movie

Posted on September 19, 2016 by reelentropy

Snowden is a bit of a curve ball. The beginning is just a bit better than awful, but the end is just a bit worse than amazing. The film details the past 10 years in the life of CIA whistleblower Edward … Continue reading →

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Blair Witch replaces original excitement with convergent blandness

Posted on September 16, 2016 by reelentropy

Rhiannon Saegert @missmusetta Blair Witch takes all the style of The Blair Witch Project and leaves behind all of the substance, resulting in a film just as shaky as the cameras it was shot on. The film is a direct … Continue reading →

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Sully kicks Oscarbate season off to awful, tacky start

Posted on September 9, 2016 by reelentropy

In January 2009, Chesley Sullenberger successfully ditched a commercial airliner in the Hudson River, averting what would have been a massive plane wreck. Now, Clint Eastwood has made things right by making a biopic about him that is just as big … Continue reading →

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Light Between Oceans delivers on promising cast, tough to enjoy anyway

Posted on September 2, 2016 by reelentropy

I’ve never seen a movie that started this slow get this much slower. Based on M.L. Stedman’s 2012 novel, The Light Between Oceans follows Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) as he returns home to Australia from World War I. Looking to get away … Continue reading →

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Hands of Stone is an affront to history, filmmaking

Posted on August 31, 2016 by reelentropy

What were they thinking here? What was anyone thinking here? Hands of Stone is a new biopic out of Cannes about legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (Édgar Ramírez, David Arosemena as a child) and his just-as-legendary trainer, Ray Arcel (Robert De … Continue reading →

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