Category Archives: White Noise

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

‘Sex is real:’ J.K. Rowling’s descent into hatred and the studio left in the lurch

Posted on April 18, 2022 by reelentropy

All is not well. Over the past several years, J.K. Rowling, author of the widely beloved “Harry Potter” franchise that invented a literary genre and defined the childhood of a generation, has decided to spend her time, artistic ability and … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged Dave Chappelle, Death of the Author, Donald Trump, Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Harry Potter, Jared Leto, JK Rowling, Warner Bros. | Leave a comment

The long, strange walk down the hall from ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ to Michael Bay’s ‘Ambulance’

Posted on April 14, 2022 by reelentropy

On Feb. 14, 2020, Paramount Pictures dumped Sonic the Hedgehog into theaters, a movie-product it handled for Sega, the video game company that developed Sonic in the early ‘90s. After an elongated marketing campaign highlighted by the character’s horrifying initial … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged Ambulance, COVID-19 crisis, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Transformers, Universal Pictures | Leave a comment