Tag Archives: COVID-19 crisis

Willem Dafoe’s ‘Inside’ is the new definitive COVID movie

Posted on April 27, 2023 by reelentropy

9/10 Inside is the new definitive icon of the COVID-19 crisis in film that explores the psychological damage of isolation and the way attitudes change toward the comforts of home when you’re trapped in it. That’s Willem Dafoe in Vasilis … Continue reading →

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The more things stay the same from ‘X’ to ‘Pearl’

Posted on January 3, 2023 by reelentropy

8/10 In March, A24 released writer/director/editor/producer Ti West’s X, a time capsule of a slasher film set in 1979 in which amateur pornographers run headfirst into exactly the kind of sadistic murderers who would fill the void pornography was about … Continue reading →

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‘Everything Everywhere’ closer to one thing in one place

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

5/10 They say the two things you can’t avoid are death and taxes. Even in a movie about jumping through the multiverse, one that built an advertising campaign around introducing the concept to audiences, the characters can’t find their way … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A24, COVID-19 crisis, Daniels, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Everything Everywhere all at Once, Ke Huy Quan, Martial Arts in a drabbier-than-you'd-expect IRS Office for about 20 minutes too long, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu | Leave a comment

Long-awaited ‘Top Gun’ sequel soars

Posted on May 28, 2022 by reelentropy

8/10 Top Gun: Maverick is an audacious, historic photography project unlike anything that’s ever been done before or is likely to be done after. This is the type of sensory experience for which theaters were built. NAS North Island- After … Continue reading →

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The long, strange walk down the hall from ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ to Michael Bay’s ‘Ambulance’

Posted on April 14, 2022 by reelentropy

On Feb. 14, 2020, Paramount Pictures dumped Sonic the Hedgehog into theaters, a movie-product it handled for Sega, the video game company that developed Sonic in the early ‘90s. After an elongated marketing campaign highlighted by the character’s horrifying initial … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged Ambulance, COVID-19 crisis, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Transformers, Universal Pictures | Leave a comment