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Steve Jobs a stunning, electrifying portrait of… someone

Posted on October 21, 2015 by reelentropy

Sorkin said recently that he didn’t want this biopic to be called a biopic. It almost seems like he got started on a Steve Jobs biography and then started adding things and kind of lost track of the assignment. The result is absolutely fantastic, though. Photos courtesy Universal Pictures.

This is the second Steve Jobs biopic in three years, but it will definitely be the last one. No one in their right mind would try to follow this movie.

Steve Jobs tells the incredible true sto- I’m sorry, I can’t even type that with a straight face.

The film condenses all the major relationships in the entrepreneur’s life into three frantic sequences just before the launches of the Macintosh in 1984, NeXT in 1988 and the iMac in 1998. Jobs (Michael Fassbender) bickers with marketing executive Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), condescends to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) and team member Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), rages against Apple CEO and apparent father figure John Sculley (Jeff Daniels) and comes to grips with his own daughter, Lisa Brennan (Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo and Perla Haney-Jardine at ages 5, 9 and 19, respectively) before each of the launches.

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The Möbius strip: Marty McFly endorses Reel Entropy

Posted on October 21, 2015 by reelentropy

In case you haven’t heard enough about Back to the Future, here’s the story of the franchise from the people who put it together- Empire

With many hoping for a Sanders vs. Trump election so they can make Doc Brown vs. Biff jokes, Back to the Future writer Bob Gale confirms that the bully was based on Trump all along- The Wrap

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Applying chaos theory: We need to talk about how good the new Star Wars movie looks

Posted on October 20, 2015 by reelentropy

Is that the Millenium Falcon engulfed in flames? Literally the only way to make the Millenium Falcon any cooler would be to engulf it in flames, and it looks like they engulfed it in flames.

Sorry…

This is the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer that rightfully shattered the Internet last night. Now quantifiably the most anticipated movie in the Internet era by an absolutely staggering margin, it’s time to break down what makes this trailer, and every other bit of media released from this production, so tantalizing.

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The Möbius strip: Star Wars predictably takes over the Internet

Posted on October 20, 2015 by reelentropy

Bella Lugosi, king of the monster movies, turns 133 today.

Summarizing the group threatening to boycott The Force Awakens for daring to cast a black man as the lead — The Hollywood Reporter

With the third trailer’s release coinciding with tickets coming available, Fandango spiked to seven times its normal peak traffic last night. The movie sold eight times as many tickets in its first day of pre-sale as previous record holder The Hunger Games — The Hollywood Reporter

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Bridge of Spies another Spielberg snoozefest

Posted on October 20, 2015 by reelentropy

This shot, after the exchange takes place, goes on for about 10 of Bridge of Spies’ 141 minutes as the orchestra swells and pats Donovan on the back for the great job he did. Photos courtesy Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios.

Look, Steven Spielberg’s filmography is beyond reproach. The guy essentially invented blockbusters with Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind two years later, and that hasn’t worked out so well, but it’s to his credit for developing the business method. But it’s time to realize that he can, and often does, do wrong.

The new wrong he’s done is Bridge of Spies, a… biopic? about lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), who represented Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) and negotiated his swap with the U.S.S.R. for captured spy pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) five years later. The movie dramatizes these two events.

The most frustrating thing about this is it didn’t have to be as bad as it is. The first scene of this movie, and several individual sequences after, are staggeringly good. The dialogue-free chase and initial capture of Abel is an electrifying visual story of fear and tension, marked with long, difficult shots and fantastic editing. With this scene straight off the bat, scenes of Donovan’s son, Roger (Noah Schnapp) learning about the bomb in school and filling the bathtub with water in preparation for it and of Germans being shot trying to get over the Berlin Wall, Bridge of Spies sucks you in to the intense paranoia of the time period. This isn’t just a period piece because they have period-accurate coats — you feel what they felt living in the height of the Cold War. It really shows off how great this movie could have been, and how fantastic a visual director Spielberg can still be when he tries.

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The Möbius strip: Marty McFly endorses Reel Entropy

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