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Spotlight a masterpiece, the year’s most authentic movie

Posted on November 18, 2015 by reelentropy

A lot of the film’s quality is driven and necessitated by its story. Even 13 years later, the details of the Catholic sex abuse scandal are revolting, and no movie could ever overshadow the real-life work of the Spotlight team, pictured here with their corresponding actors. Photo courtesy The Boston Globe.

Spotlight brings its world to more complex, nuanced life than any movie in recent memory. This movie is deeply personally affecting, in ways that go far beyond the fact that it’s all true.

The film is about the Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation into systemic pedophilia in the Catholic Church, which resulted in criminal charges against five Boston area priests. The dramatization goes through the hiring of new editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) and his discovery of the story through its investigation by the Spotlight team, leader Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton), Micheal Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James).

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The Möbius strip: Bond stays on top

Posted on November 17, 2015 by reelentropy

With yet another extraordinarily weak crop of new releases, Spectre predictably held the top spot this weekend- Box Office Mojo

While it wasn’t a particularly spectacular scene, the detonation of Blofeld’s base in Spectre has now officially set the Guiness world record for largest explosion in a movie. The shot took 73 pounds of explosives and 2,224 gallons of fuel- Indiewire

Though James Bond has adapted successfully to several action movie zeitgeists over the decades, the new one — Marvel’s episodic opera — may finally push the character into outdated territory- Rolling Stone

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Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #007, #american ultra, #apocalypse now, #bill cosby, #blackfish, #Disney, #ghostbusters, #johnny depp, #lionsgate, #peanuts movie, #robin williams, #room, #seaworld, #sicario, #sony, #spectre, #star wars, #the force awakens, #the last witch hunter, #turmbo, Paul Feig | Leave a comment

Peanuts delightful, but only the first time

Posted on November 11, 2015 by reelentropy

The Peanuts Movie has a weird relationship with Snoopy. On the one hand, it’s a lot like the Despicable Me series in which the filler material is a lot more fun than the main story, but in this, it’s too obvious that it’s filler and there’s too big a shift between the Snoopy sequences and the main sequences. It really feels like we’re alternating between two completely different movies in these scenes. Photo courtesy 20th Century Fox.

Who could dislike The Peanuts Movie? It’s The Peanuts! It’s a classic! But the more this new movie wears on, the more you realize how little you’d get from watching it again.

You all know the plot. It’s The Peanuts! Charlie Brown (Noah Schnapp) pines after the little red-haired girl (Francesca Angelucci Capaldi) and Snoopy fantasizes about being a World War I fighter pilot. It’s The Peanuts!

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The Möbius strip: Bond, Brown finally crash The Martian’s party

Posted on November 9, 2015 by reelentropy

In a predictable weekend box office race, popular newcomers Spectre and The Peanuts Movie took first and second place with $73 million and $45 million. The Martian dropped below second place for just the first time in its six-week run with $9.3 million- Box Office Mojo

Star Daniel Craig has made a lot of noise about being fed up with the 007 series, but few actors have fared well after holstering the Walther- Variety

As many scribes scrambled to rank all the previous 007 movies in the runup to Spectre’s American release, Christopher Campbell remarks on how hard even that has become- Film School Rejects

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Applying chaos theory: The new Warcraft trailer is so bad

Posted on November 8, 2015 by reelentropy

World of Warcraft is the Wal Mart of gaming, but Blizzard has a long history of excellent promotional shorts. Their best work is this haunting Wrath of the Lich King cinematic, with dynamic visuals, great music and several thick layers of irony, or this fantastic short that was part of a series leading up to the Warlords of Draenor launch. As if to drive the point home, still months from launch, Blizzard released the cinematic for their next expansion the same day Universal released the theatrical trailer.

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Posted in Applying Chaos Theory | Tagged #fake, #lord of the rings, #orcs and humans, #the hobbit, #warcraft, #world of warcraft | 1 Comment

Reel Entropy

Spotlight a masterpiece, the year’s most authentic movie

The Möbius strip: Bond stays on top

Peanuts delightful, but only the first time

The Möbius strip: Bond, Brown finally crash The Martian’s party

Applying chaos theory: The new Warcraft trailer is so bad

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