Category Archives: White Noise

Many unkind things about Olivia Wilde

Posted on January 3, 2023 by reelentropy

4/10 I like Olivia Wilde as an actress. I’ve never met her, but I’m sure she’s a very nice lady. Now that’s out of the way, Don’t Worry Darling is a lukewarm mess, not terrible, interesting enough to be as … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged Booksmart, Chris Pine, Don't Worry Darling, Florence Pugh, Ghostbusters, Harry Styles, Miss Flo, Olivia Wilde, Shia LaBeouf, The Stepford Wives | Leave a comment

Knopp finally writes about ‘Avatar’

Posted on December 18, 2022 by reelentropy

I started writing about movies formally in January 2010 with The Book of Eli, which released the second weekend of that year more than $20 million behind Avatar, which was in its fifth weekend. I’ve heard so much about Avatar … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged 3D, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Dances with Wolves, Disney, James Cameron, PLF, The Way of Water | Leave a comment

The bust-out of Warner Bros.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by reelentropy

Industrial-scale film distribution dates back to before World War I. In the bad old days with no way to transmit information digitally, movies had to be physically carried from Southern California outward, a supply chain that wound its way across … Continue reading →

Posted in Applying Chaos Theory, White Noise | Tagged "House of the Dragon", Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Batgirl, Black Adam, Christopher Nolan, DCEU, Disney, Disney+, Ezra Miller, HBO, HBOmax, Justice League, Marvel, MCU, Netflix, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Streaming wars, The Batman, The Flash, The medium is the message, Warner Bros., Zack Snyder | 1 Comment

Brief notes on ‘DC League of Super-pets’

Posted on August 20, 2022 by reelentropy

There’s no more palpable bromance in Hollywood right now than the one between Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. Their electricity is palpable and joyous, and the Jumanji co-stars seem to have endeavored to work together more as time has gone … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged Batgirl, Batman: The Animated Series, DC League of Super-Pets, Dwayne Johnson, HBO Max, Kevin Hart, Man of Steel, The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. | Leave a comment

Cronenberg of the past, ‘Crimes of the Future’

Posted on July 4, 2022 by reelentropy

In 2022, after more than a century of pumping carbon into the atmosphere at an industrial scale, the environment has fully turned against us. We’re still recovering from a new plague, wildfires have become an annual fact of life in … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg, Ears McGoo, Lea Seydoux, Videodrome, Viggo Mortensen | Leave a comment