Tag Archives: Avengers: Endgame

Watching, or not, as ‘Marvels’ fail

Posted on January 18, 2024 by reelentropy

For the past several years as Disney pivoted toward a streaming-first business model, the company line has been that instead of movies about individual heroes leading into a bigger crossover movie, they’ll have solo TV shows, and every movie will … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged "content", #Disney, #iron man, #mcu, #samuel l jackson, #the dark knight, #the incredible hulk, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Becomes the Princess of the Bollywood Planet, Nia DaCosta, The Marvels | Leave a comment

‘Quantumania:’ or, ‘imagine if Rick and Morty sucked’

Posted on April 25, 2023 by reelentropy

3/10 Oh, Ant-Man. What did you do to deserve getting stepped on like this? In that iconic moment in an iconic movie when the Avengers assembled onscreen for the first time, Ant-Man was already the butt of the joke. He … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bill Murray, Community, Disney, Evangaline Lilly, Jeff Loveness, Jonathan Majors, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Peyton Reed, Rick and Morty, Star Wars, The medium is the message, try not to think about it, What if "Rick and Morty" sucked? | 1 Comment

Wakanda long ago, ‘Wakanda Forever’

Posted on November 11, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 Everyone in the world has been through a lot since Black Panther showed us a magical dream of uncolonized Africa in February 2018. Four years later in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, that dream is tainted by real-life tragedy among … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Angela Bassett, aquaman, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Widow, Chadwick Boseman, coronavirus, half-finished Scorpion King-looking special effects, Letitia Wright, Martin Freeman, Marvel, MCU, Michael B. Jordan, Phase IV, Talokan, Tenoch Huerta, Wakanda | 1 Comment

‘Dominion’ is near-enough the ‘Jurassic Park’ sequel you’ve been waiting for

Posted on July 5, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 “The end of the Jurassic era,” woah! The Jurassic Park series is an “era” now, OK, that’s certainly a word. And Jurassic World: Dominion is the end of that era! Don’t get sick of it now, we’ve only got … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Avengers: Endgame, Colin Trevorrow, Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World: Dominion, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The end of the Jurassic Era | Leave a comment

The most important movies of 2019

Posted on January 10, 2020 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are dumb and arbitrary and I hate them, even as I’ve started doing them. We can do better here. Instead of a static list of 10 favorites, 10 peanuts with which to pack the year away … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #Disney, #martin scorsese, #quentin tarantino, #robert eggers, #spotlight, #star wars, #the lion king, 21 Bridges, A Hidden Life, Aladdin, Ari Aster, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bird Box, Black and Blue, Box Office Mojo, Captain Marvel, Dark Waters, Dumbo, Frozen II, It: Chapter 2, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Jordan Peele, Josh and Benny Safdie, Maleficent 2, Midsommar, Official Secrets, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Queen and Slim, Roma, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Disney Empire, The Irishman, The Lighthouse, The Mandalorian, The Report, Toy Story 4, Uncut Gems, Us | Leave a comment