Category Archives: White Noise

The most important movies of 2015

Posted on January 4, 2016 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers | 1 Comment

A brief history of space movies

Posted on October 13, 2015 by reelentropy

With The Martian holding steady in the no. 1 spot, it’s time to take a look at how space has been used as a setting in movies over the years. The first space movie — the first science fiction movie, really — was the 1902 … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #2001, #2001: a space odyssey, #a trip to the moon, #abbot and costello go to mars, #alien, #destination moon, #farewell to the master, #flight to mars, #gravity, #harry bates, #HG wells, #interstellar, #iron man, #marooned, #moon landing conspiracy, #prometheus, #robert a heinlein, #rocketship galileo, #rocketship x-m, #space balls, #space race, #stanley kubrick, #star trek, #star wars, #starship troopers, #stranger in a strange land, #the day the earth stood still, #the first men in the moon, #the martian, #the silent era, #woman in the moon | Leave a comment

Jurassic World rampages through flop-filled summer

Posted on September 7, 2015 by reelentropy

We’ve written before about how much better Jurassic World did than anything else, and as the summer went on that article became more and more accurate. As of this writing, only two movies — Inside Out with $348.2 million and Minions with $328.6 million … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #adam sandler, #agent 47, #Alicia Vikander, #american dad, #american ultra, #amy poehler, #amy schumer, #ant-man, #antoine fuqua, #armie hammer, #arnold schwarzenegger, #bill hader, #blumhouse, #bridesmaids, #channing tatum, #chris pratt, #despicable me, #disney pixar, #dope, #dwayne johnson, #elixabeth debickig, #end of days, #entourage, #family guy, #fant4stic, #Fantastic Four, #forest whitaker, #furious 7, #george clooney, #guy ritchie, #HBO, #henry cavill, #hitman, #hugh grant, #inside out, #insidious 3, #jake gyllenhaal, #james wan, #jason bateman, #jesse Eisengerg, #joel edgerton, #john green, #judd apatow, #jude law, #jurassic world, #kevin james, #kristen stewart, #lebron james, #leigh whannell, #lewis black, #Magic Mike, #Magic Mike XXL, #mark wahlberg, #mindy kaling, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mission: impossible -- rogue nation, #no escape, #NWA, #open road films, #owen Wilson, #paper towns, #paul rudd, #peter dinklage, #phyllis smith, #pierce brosnan, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixels, #poltergesit, #rachel mcadams, #rebecca hall, #san andreas, #seth macfarlane, #sinister 2, #southpaw, #spy, #straight outta compton, #sundance, #Ted 2, #Terminator, #terminator genisys, #the fault in our stars, #the gallows, #the gift, #the heat, #the man from uncle, #tom cruise, #tomorrowland, #trainwreck, #transporter, #war room, #we are your friends, #zac efron, Insidious, Jason Statham, Marvel, Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne | 1 Comment

Ant-Man staring at lowest Marvel opening in four years

Posted on July 16, 2015 by reelentropy

Remember how amped everyone was in 2008 for Iron Man? There’s been a lot of noise in the past few months, strengthened by Age of Ultron’s performing less than The Avengers on the same weekend and Comic Con, about superhero fatigue finally setting in over the next … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip, White Noise | Tagged #ant-man, #DC, #evangeline lilly, #Fantastic Four, #iron man, #michael douglas, #paul rudd, #sony, #the dark knight, #the incredible hulk, #Thor, Captain America, Marvel, Spider-Man | Leave a comment

A brief update on how well Jurassic World is doing

Posted on June 23, 2015 by reelentropy

After Disney Pixar released Inside Out to $90.4 million, good for no. 2 at the domestic box office to Jurassic World’s second weekend, there’s been a lot of noise about how well the box office in general is suddenly doing after some quiet weekends … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip, White Noise | Tagged #Age of Ultron, #avatar, #disney pixar, #furious 7, #Harry potter and the deathly hallows, #inside out, #jurassic world, #Legalizeted, #Magic Mike, #Magic Mike XXL, #Ted 2, #Terminator, #Terminator Genysis, #theparkisopen, #universal pictures, Harry Potter, Marvel, The Avengers | 1 Comment