Tag Archives: Crazy Rich Asians

Crouching Marvel, hidden action

Posted on September 10, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has a lot of good components, but they never really come together, and the put-together product is instead so forgettable you can sometimes forget you’re in the process of watching it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Awkwafina, Black Widow, Crazy Rich Asians, Disney, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Shang-Chi, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Shiu Liu, The Raid 2, The Raid: Redemption, Tony Leung | Leave a comment

Stop what you’re doing and go see ‘Snake Eyes’

Posted on August 12, 2021 by reelentropy

9/10 Snake Eyes is the movie people like to pretend MCU movies still are. An underground street fighter known only as Snake Eyes (Henry Golding) drifts from job to job down the West Coast looking for the man who killed … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Black Widow, Bojan Bazelli, Crazy Rich Asians, Disney, Evan Spiliotopoulos, GI Joe, GI Joe Origins: Snake Eyes, Henry Golding, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Monopoly-class movies, Robert Schwentke, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Snake Eyes | 1 Comment

The bubble bursts- on Moviepass and the rise of monopoly-class movies

Posted on September 4, 2019 by reelentropy

When I started doing these Labor Day summer wrapups five years ago, what I identified — and what plenty of other people identified — was a crashing bubble at the domestic box office, and after a rebound year in 2018, … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #3D, #avatar, #Avengers, #black panther, #Disney, #george lucas, #iron man, #lucasfilm, #marvel studios, #pixar, #the lion king, Aladdin, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Business Insider, Captain Marvel, Crazy Rich Asians, Dark Phoenix, Endgame, Frozen II, Incredibles 2, Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Labor Day, Men in Black International, Midsommar, Monopoly class movies, MoviePass, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, Us | 9 Comments

Like a turd in the wind

Posted on October 15, 2018 by reelentropy

4/10 After months of extreme public ridicule, Venom has finally arrived, and make no mistake, it is bad. Oh boy, it is so bad. But despite how much fun’s been had at its expense since the first teaser was released … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #ant-man, #black panther, #gravity, #mcu, #spider-man 3, #the predator, #tom hardy, Crazy Rich Asians, Gotham, Infinity War, Michelle Williams, Night School, Riz Ahmed, The Hosue with a Clock in its Walls, The Nun, Venom | 1 Comment

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is terrible

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 In the late August dead zone, which this year was filled with some fairly interesting releases, Crazy Rich Asians spent three weeks at the top of the box office, including Labor Day weekend, a run that included an astonishingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Awkwafina, Crazy Rich Asians, Henry Golding, Jimmy O. Yang, Jon M. Chu, NYU, Singapore | Leave a comment