Afterparty Podcast — Judge Dredd

Posted on January 3, 2017 by reelentropy

We’re trying something a little different here.

Instead of talking or writing about a movie after the fact, we wanted to podcast a review in real time, so we set up a mic and watched the 1995 classic Judge Dredd, which just released on Netflix. Cue it up, hit play on that window and the podcast at the same time, and enjoy. Think of it like a more annoying DVD commentary. It’s vaguely racist and we were all toddlers when this movie was released, but on the upside, we weren’t involved in the making of this movie in any way, so there’s that.

https://soundcloud.com/paul-wedding-259565788/the-afterparty-podcast-judge-dredd

 

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The most important films of 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 by reelentropy

Image courtesy 20th Century Fox.

Annual top 10 lists are boring and dumb and arbitrary and full of movies nobody’s ever heard of. A big goal of this site is to try and extrapolate the future of movies, so, instead of talking about the year’s best movies, we’re going to talk about the year’s most influential or culturally significant movies.

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Applying Chaos Theory: Announcing Blade Runner 2049

Posted on December 24, 2016 by reelentropy

Jeez, anybody want some music with that feedback?

The first thing to notice about this trailer for Blade Runner 2049, once your ears and pulse recover, is the due date — next October. It’s way too early to start promoting this movie.

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‘Jackie’ an intimate winner

Posted on December 24, 2016 by reelentropy

Mere historical impression work is well beneath Portman at this point, but that’s not all she’s doing here. Kennedy is understandably distraught and erratic throughout the film, composed and breaking down on a seemingly random basis from scene to scene — often seen in people having an emotional crisis that lasts several days, but not conducive to a typical film narrative. Portman is a steady hand to bring the character to life. Image courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures.

I’ve got an instinct to dismiss late-year biopics as Oscarbate, but Jackie is something more.

In 1963, Theodore H. White (Billy Crudup) interviews Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) in her Massachusetts estate for the now-famous article comparing her husband’s administration to King Arthur’s court in Camelot. During the interview, Kennedy re-lives the past week of her life — the president’s assassination and planning for his funeral.

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‘Assassin’s Creed’ doesn’t make sense

Posted on December 23, 2016 by reelentropy

The second scene in which Callum Lynch jacks into the Animus device, he starts singing a song about how he is going crazy because he’s falling in love with somebody. I doubt this was scripted. Images courtesy 20th Century Fox.

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Assassin’s Creed, based on the Ubisoft video game series, is a chaotic movie.

Murderer Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender, who also produces) is kidnapped by the modern day Knights Templar to locate the Apple of Eden, an artifact that contains the seeds of man’s first disobedience and has the power to end free will. This will not only eradicate all violence in the world, but also allow the Knights Templar to rule it. To find the Apple, Lynch is forced to participate in Sophia Rikkin’s (Marion Cotillard) Animus project. Lynch’s mind is jacked into the Animus device, which reads his DNA patterns and allows him to inhabit the consciousness of his ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha (also Fassbender), the last known possessor of the Apple and a member of the Assassin’s Creed in 1492 Spain.

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