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Captain America: Actually, Quite Civil

Posted on May 7, 2016 by reelentropy

Photos courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Captain America: Civil War isn’t officially an Avengers movie, but I already wish they’d kept Joss Whedon to direct it.

In many ways, Civil War is The Avengers: Age of Ultron Part 2. In the direct aftermath of that movie and the disaster in Sokovia, the New Avengers are involved in another disaster in Lagos, Nigeria. With support from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) presents the group with the Sokovia Accords, which put the group under U.N. oversight. The New Avengers fracture, with Stark saying they have no decision-making process in place and must be held accountable and Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) holding that international oversight could lead to disaster.

Meanwhile in what feels like a completely separate movie, the mysterious Helmut Zemo (Daniel Brühl) is seeking information on the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). Zemo sets his plan in motion by framing Barnes for bombing the U.N. meeting where the Accords are to be signed, setting Rogers on a frantic scramble to find his childhood friend before authorities carry out their kill-on-sight order. Rogers’ search immediately puts him outside the bounds of the Accords.

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Green Room delivers the gory goods

Posted on May 2, 2016 by reelentropy

Photos courtesy A24.

As soon as I sat down to write this, my nose started dripping blood. It’s not witchcraft, I’ve been sick, but it’s really appropriate to be bleeding while writing about this movie.

Green Room follows punk band the Ain’t Rights — Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Alia Shawkat), Reese (Joe Cole) and Tiger (Callum Turner). Penniless, on the wrong side of the country after a long tour and on the verge of breaking up, the group catches a lucky break when it is invited to headline at an off-the-beaten track Oregon club. It turns out to be a white supremacist hangout, but they pay well and can take a joke, so it goes smoothly. The gig turns sour when Pat witnesses a murder in the green room. The neo-Nazis trap all the band members there along with club regular Amber (Imogen Poots), intent on killing them as witnesses. What follows is a night-long standoff between the group and the menacing club owner/Nazi leader, Darcy Banker (Patrick Stewart).

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Sing Street a fun, lively jukebox musical, don’t expect even a little originality with the story

Posted on April 26, 2016 by reelentropy

Photos courtesy The Weinstein Company.

Steven James
@StevenLeeJames

Sing Street is an Irish coming-of- age jukebox musical that can be described in two words: fun and typical.

In Dublin 1985, 15-year-old Conor “Cosmo” Lalor’s (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) parents force him to transfer from his expensive private school to the free, state-sponsored Synge Street CBS. The family is suffering from major financial issues. Conor’s father, Robert (Aidan Gillan), and mother, Penny (Maria Doyle Kennedy), are in a crumbling marriage. Conor’s brother, Brendan (Jack Reynor), is a college drop-out who lives at home and spends most of his time getting high, listening to music and hanging out with his siblings. His sister, Ann (Kelly Thornton), is attempting to become an architect like her father, but with hopefully a more successful career.

Conor Lalor meets pretty girl and aspiring model, 16-year-old Raphina (Lucy Boynton), who lives across the street from Conor’s school in the local girl’s home and decides to form a band. He meets manager Darren (Ben Carolan), who shoots the band’s music videos, as well as bandmates Eamon (Mark McKenna), Larry (Conor Hamilton), Garry (Karl Rice) and Ngig (Percy Chamburuka), Sing Street’s Token Minority. Brendan convinces Conor to change Sing Street from a lame cover band into an edgy, rock ‘n’ roll group to impress Raphina, and to write most of his lyrics about her.

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The Möbius Strip: Jungle Book easily repeats, Dredd 2!!!

Posted on April 26, 2016 by reelentropy

Photo courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Leopold Knopp

Facing weak competition, Jungle Book easily repeated last weekend with $61.5 million. Main challenger The Huntsman: Winter’s War didn’t even top $20 million- Box Office Mojo

The success of Disney’s Jungle Book — Jon Favreau’s eighth feature film — and its announced sequel puts even more pressure on Warner Bros. and freshman director Andy Serkis, who is putting together and entirely separate Jungle Book for 2018- Entertainment Weekly

Winter’s War’s flop, following Blackhat and In the Heart of the Sea last year, could mean disaster for star Chris Hemsworth’s career- The Inquisitr

Scott Mendelson looks at the effect dropping Kristen Stewart, star of the original Snow White and the Huntsman, had on the film’s box office, positing that switching to a male lead could have alienated the movie’s primarily female target audience- Forbes

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Predictably, Huntsman is a colossal mess

Posted on April 25, 2016 by reelentropy

I still haven’t seen Frozen, but this is essentially Frozen, right? Photos courtesy Universal Pictures.

The Huntsman: Winter’s War is partially a prequel to Snow White and the Huntsman and partially a sequel. The plot has a timeskip in it, and the narrator — Liam Neeson, somehow — says “that entire movie happened in this spot.” It’s half-and-half. It’s a psreequel.

It’s a mess, is what it is.

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Reel Entropy

Captain America: Actually, Quite Civil

Green Room delivers the gory goods

Sing Street a fun, lively jukebox musical, don’t expect even a little originality with the story

The Möbius Strip: Jungle Book easily repeats, Dredd 2!!!

Predictably, Huntsman is a colossal mess

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