Tag Archives: Disney

Balding celebrity chef makes mid-life crisis everyone’s problem in ‘The Menu’

Posted on January 13, 2023 by reelentropy

2/10 The Menu is a terrible, boring film that exists only to clamber up its own ass and turn left. It’s about a crazy chef who murders everybody, and the mystery is his insane and torturously metaphorical reasons for murdering … Continue reading →

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‘Way of Water’ imperfect, enormous step up

Posted on December 18, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 If you liked Avatar, you’ll love Avatar: The Way of Water, and if you didn’t like Avatar, The Way of Water puts what the original movie is missing onscreen. More than a decade after the first film, the sky … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged 192 minutes, 3D, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Disney, James Cameron, Moby Dick, The Northman, The Way of Water, Titanic | Leave a comment

Knopp finally writes about ‘Avatar’

Posted on December 18, 2022 by reelentropy

I started writing about movies formally in January 2010 with The Book of Eli, which released the second weekend of that year more than $20 million behind Avatar, which was in its fifth weekend. I’ve heard so much about Avatar … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged 3D, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Dances with Wolves, Disney, James Cameron, PLF, The Way of Water | Leave a comment

The bust-out of Warner Bros.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by reelentropy

Industrial-scale film distribution dates back to before World War I. In the bad old days with no way to transmit information digitally, movies had to be physically carried from Southern California outward, a supply chain that wound its way across … Continue reading →

Posted in Applying Chaos Theory, White Noise | Tagged "House of the Dragon", Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Batgirl, Black Adam, Christopher Nolan, DCEU, Disney, Disney+, Ezra Miller, HBO, HBOmax, Justice League, Marvel, MCU, Netflix, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Streaming wars, The Batman, The Flash, The medium is the message, Warner Bros., Zack Snyder | 1 Comment

‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Marvel’s most happy-go-lucky romp, but who cares anymore?

Posted on August 20, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 It’s really hard to care about post-Endgame Marvel movies. The point of these things, particularly post-pandemic, seems to be that of a soft blanket, comfort food ad infinitum. Thor: Love and Thunder could be one of the series’ most … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Disney, Marvel, MCU, Taika Waititi, Thor, Thor: Love and Thunder, Thor: Ragnarok | Leave a comment