Afterparty podcast – Beauty and the Beast

Posted on March 21, 2017 by reelentropy

Instead of watching the awful new live-action movie like most of America, we decided to look back at the 1991 classic Beauty and the Beast to see how well it holds up. Sync up the special edition and watch along.

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Stay home! Watch the original! Save your money!

Posted on March 17, 2017 by reelentropy

Images courtesy Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios.

2/10 Everyone’s tired of the endless stream of sequels, remakes and adaptations coming out of Hollywood these days, but they don’t have to be bad. Remakes can make an old story new again, or tell it in a completely different light.

Or, as with Beauty and the Beast, do nothing of the sort.

Beauty and the Beast follows Belle (Emma Watson), a chipper French maiden who longs for more than her provincial life. She gets more than she bargained for when she ends up prisoner to a monstrous beast (Dan Stevens). He, and his servants and his castle itself, were cursed long ago to ugliness until he could learn to love and be loved. At the insistent pushing of his candelabra, Lumière (Ewan McGregor), the beast starts looking at Belle as the woman he could eventually learn that with.

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The Open Bar Review – Moonlight

Posted on March 16, 2017 by reelentropy

In which Paul and I discuss the 2016 Best Picture winner, La La Land Moonlight. 

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The Open Bar Review – Logan

Posted on March 13, 2017 by reelentropy

In which Paul and I carefully examine why the new Wolverine movie is actually pretty lame.

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‘(Viet)Kong’ movie audacious, very poorly done

Posted on March 11, 2017 by reelentropy

I’ll say this for the movie — it’s got style. Images courtesy Warner Bros.

3/10 GOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING, SKULL ISLAND!

In 1973, just a day after saying goodnight to Saigon, top-ranking government official Bill Randa (John Goodman) gets the green light for an expedition to Skull Island, an uncharted land mass surrounded by a perpetual storm system revealed by the government’s new satellites. Randa rounds up Air Force lieutenant colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackman) and his team to fly to the island, ex-British special forces captain James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) to navigate once there and photojournalist Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), who brings her camera to shoot the landscape. The crew begins by bombing the island to see if it has any caves, which draws the ire of comrade King Kong, the massive ape that rules the island, who swats their choppers down like flies. From there, the team is split between Packard, who wants to dig in deep and shoot on sight, and Conrad, who wants to not leave in plastic as a numbered corpse. With a refueling rendezvous scheduled in three days, the group’s only hope is to fight their way to the north end of the country island.

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