Category Archives: White Noise

On open secrets, cover-ups and systemic denial

Posted on October 18, 2017 by reelentropy

Late in 2015 Best Picture winner “Spotlight,” which details The Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer-prize winning report on systemic pedophilia in the Catholic Church, editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) remarks that everyone in Boston already seems to know the story, … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #jessica chastain, #seth macfarlane, Courtney Love, cover-up, Harvey Weinstein, open secret, systemic denial, The Associated Press, The Boston Globe, The New York Times | 4 Comments

The strange, inconclusive summer of 2017

Posted on September 20, 2017 by reelentropy

Yeah, I know Labor Day was two weeks ago, fuck off It’s been a summer of transition at the movies. Transition to what? Who knows. There are several narratives to spin based on the number of movies that were released … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #pirates of the caribbean, #wonder woman, 2017, Annabelle: Creation, Atomic Blonde, Baby Driver, Baywatch, Captain Underpants, Cars 3, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Despicable Me 3, Dunkirk, fuck off, Girls Trip, It Comes at Night, Labor Day, Leap!, Logan Lucky, Rough Night, Spider-Man, The Dark Tower, The Emoji Movie, The Hitman's Bodyguard, The House, The Mummy, The Nut Job 2, Transformers 5, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, War for the Planet of the Apes | Leave a comment

Late-summer catch-up: ‘Detroit’

Posted on August 23, 2017 by reelentropy

This article contains coarse language and distressing content. *** 6/10 Both delving into the past and ripped from the headlines, Detroit explores America’s explosive racial divide. But like so much mass media that addresses these issues, it shies away at … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged #anthony mackie, #birdman, #john boyega, #john krasinski, #the hurt locker, Ben O'Toole, Detroit, handheld shots, Jack Reynor, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, The Bourne Identity, the tripod-free look, Will Poulter, Zero Dark Thirty | Leave a comment

40 years of ‘Star Wars’

Posted on May 25, 2017 by reelentropy

Forty years ago today, 20th Century Fox dropped Star Wars off into the 32 theaters they could convince to screen it. It was a Wednesday. The studio was worried the movie would be swallowed by other summer releases, so they … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #20th Century Fox, #Disney, #george lucas, #jaws, #jurassic park, #return of the jedi, #star wars, #the empire strikes back, #the force awakens, Attack of the Clones, ET, Heir to the Empire, Revenge of the Sith, rogue one, The Last Jedi, The Other Side of Midnight, The Phantom Menace, You think God is in control here? | Leave a comment

‘Prometheus:’ five years later, still shitty

Posted on May 18, 2017 by reelentropy

Prometheus is probably the most famously bad movie in recent memory. Well, no, there are a lot of people who would pretty condescendingly disagree with that. Maybe it’s the most often defended bad movie in recent memory? The worst good movie … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #alien, #michael fassbender, #prometheus, #ridley scott, #steve jobs, Alien: Covenant, Ancient astronauts, Chariots of the Gods, deleted scenes, Guy Pearce, Leviticus, Max von Sydow, shitty, Space Jesus | 1 Comment