Category Archives: White Noise

‘Flash’ is really bad

Posted on July 20, 2023 by reelentropy

1/10 The Flash is bad. The first action sequence where Flash has to save a neonatal care ward falling from the 43rd floor of a hospital is funny-bad – no matter how much the movie is winking here, I’m still … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged 9/11, bad, DCEU, Ezra Miller, Fantastic Beasts, Flashpoint: Into the Batman-Verse, Justice League, Man of Steel, The Flash, The Flash is bad, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder | Leave a comment

‘Joyland’ and the state of the queer arthouse rom-dram

Posted on July 2, 2023 by reelentropy

When groundbreaking Urdu-language trans drama Joyland finally strolled into American arthouses last May, it came highly decorated. The film premiered at Cannes in May 2022, where it won the Queer Palm and Jury Prize and earned invitations to several other … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged Alina Khan, Ammonite, Bros, Everything Everywhere all at Once, it turns out the gays have been here the entire time, Joyland, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Saim Sadiq | Leave a comment

Failing to make sense of the photorealistic ‘Little Mermaid’ adaptation

Posted on June 23, 2023 by reelentropy

The Sea of Siciliy- Ariel (Halle Bailey) is a teenage trans mermaid who needs bottom surgery so she can go to the surface and catch some dick. Her father, King Triton (Javier Bardem), could transform her into a human at … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Avatar: The Way of Water, Disney, Disney Renaissance, Halle Bailey, History of racism in media, Melissa McCarthy, The Little Mermaid, The Republican Party wants to kill queer people, The Republican Party wants to kill women | Leave a comment

I just rewatched ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and had a lot of feelings and now you have to read about them

Posted on June 5, 2023 by reelentropy

I remember precisely the first image I saw of Star Wars. It’s the shot of Darth Vader, lightsaber ignited, standing in a Death Star hallway waiting for Obi-Wan Kenobi to arrive. This would have been 1995 or ‘96, after the … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged David Lynch, Disney Renaissance, Dreamworks, Eraserhead, Star Wars, The Prince of Egypt, The Wizard of Oz, Wild at Heart | Leave a comment

I demand a new ‘John Wick’ movie every year until I die.

Posted on March 22, 2023 by reelentropy

In a November 2015 essay a month before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney’s first Star Wars-branded movie-product, released, an essay in Wired popularized the idea that Disney intended to make a new Star Wars movie every year until you … Continue reading →

Posted in Applying Chaos Theory, White Noise | Tagged #Disney, #star wars, I demand a new John Wick movie every year until I die, John Wick, Marvel | Leave a comment