Category Archives: Entropy

Tim, what are you doing?

Posted on October 6, 2016 by reelentropy

The buzz about Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is that it falls apart in the second half, and that’s absolutely not true. It falls apart well before then. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is about Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield), a muggle … Continue reading →

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Deepwater Horizon brings harrowing blowout to vivid life

Posted on September 30, 2016 by reelentropy

Deepwater Horizon is a triumph of traditional, fundamentally sound storytelling. It’s proof of the power of film to make any subject matter gripping. The movie revisits the April 2010 disaster aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit that claimed 11 lives … Continue reading →

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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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