Tag Archives: COVID-19 crisis

‘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 →

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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

Performance anxiety and real-world rage of Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’

Posted on February 28, 2022 by reelentropy

Perusing year-end Netflix originals, I get a nagging, grim itch to revisit “Inside,” the comedy special that released to rapturous praise last May. I’d started some fights about it around the time of its release because I found it to … Continue reading →

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Del Toro’s dark fantasy a darker reality in ‘Nightmare Alley’

Posted on December 24, 2021 by reelentropy

10/10 Nightmare Alley is a macabre masterpiece of despair, cynicism and sin. It would be too simple to call this writer/director/producer Guillermo del Toro’s best work, but it is certainly his most refined and most cruel. End of the line, … Continue reading →

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