Tag Archives: Disney

‘Jungle Cruise’ is a boring, homosexist dumpster fire

Posted on August 13, 2021 by reelentropy

1/10 Jungle Cruise is a limp imitation of past Disney success that nobody seemed to know what to do with. 1917, as diseases that were responsible for a third of all military casualties in the Great War ravage the trenches- … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Disney, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Indiana Jones, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean | 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 | 2 Comments

The MCU you loved has been gone for a while now

Posted on July 22, 2021 by reelentropy

6/10 It’s finally here! After almost 20 years of development, 11 years of the character existing in the background, seven years of that with an infamously mangled backstory, and more than a year of pandemic-related delay, Black Widow finally has … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Black Widow, Cate Shortland, Disney, Disney+, Eric Pearson, Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny, Florence Pugh, It's another Marvel movie, Martin Scorsese, Martin Scorsese setting the entire internet on fire, Marvel, MCU, Olga Kurylenko, Scarlett Johansson | 1 Comment

Erstwhile ‘Gone Girl’ heiress ‘Woman in the Window’ never stood a chance

Posted on May 25, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 The Woman in the Window releases on Netflix May 14, 2021, almost a year to the day after its planned May 15, 2020 release date. The COVID-19 crisis both ruined its theatrical release and ruined the movie itself, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged 20th Century Fox, Amy Adams, Disney, Gary Oldman, Gone Girl, Julianne Moore, Netflix, The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the WIndow | Leave a comment

A quarantine with The Master

Posted on March 19, 2021 by reelentropy

Several years ago now, I started systemically moving through the work of high-profile directors. This is part of the path from loud movie nerd to legitimate film scholar – film scholars actually study film, they don’t just write about it. … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick, Dial M for Murder, Disney, Dr. No, Foreign COrrespondent, Francois Truffaut, Frenzy, Gone with the Wind, Halloween, I Confess, Independence Day, Jamaica Inn, Lifeboat, Marnie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Windo, Rebecca, Rope, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Silence of the Lambs, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Strangers on a Train, Studio system, The 39 Steps, The Birds, The Dark Knight, The Lady Vanishes, The Paradine Case, The Trouble with Harry, Tippi Hedren, To Catch a Thief, Torn Curtain, Under Capricorn, Vertigo | 1 Comment