Tag Archives: #ex machina

The most important female characters of 2015

Posted on January 7, 2016 by reelentropy

Something that escaped mention in the previous year-end post is that 2015 was also a fantastic year for women in film, filled with strong characters and stronger economic motivations to serve a female audience. Given that I completely forgot about it … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #brie larson, #bryce dallas howard, #charlize theron, #daisy ridley, #dakota johnson, #domhnal gleeson, #ex machina, #feminism, #fifty shades of grey, #fury road, #jamie dorman, #john boyega, #jurassic park, #jurassic world, #mad max, #masculism, #Oscar Isaac, #prattprattpratt, #rape culture, #room, #star wars, #the force awakens, #tom hardy, #we are not things, #wheresrey | Leave a comment

The most important movies of 2015

Posted on January 4, 2016 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers | 1 Comment

The Möbius strip: Krampus surprises, awards start rolling in

Posted on December 8, 2015 by reelentropy

As with last week, part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay took the crown with an unimpressive total — $18.9 million — but the real story is the surprising runner up, Krampus. The weekend’s only wide release was expected to settle for the no. 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #african american film critics association, #alamo drafthouse, #angelina jolie, #blacklivesmatter, #boston society of film critics, #british independent film awards, #burnt, #by the sea, #carl weathers, #carol, #charlie sheen, #cnn, #concussion, #creed, #edward scissorhands, #ex machina, #gotham independent film awards, #jennifer lawrence, #joy, #krampus, #leonardo dicaprio, #los angeles film critic association, #mad max: fury road, #mockingjay, #msnbc, #national board of review, #Netflix, #new york film critic's circle, #nightcrawler, #our brand is crisis, #pixar, #quinten tarantino, #sandra bullock, #spotlight, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #the force awakens, #the good dinosaur, #the hateful eight, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the revenant, #tim burton, #washington dc area film critics association, #will smith, bradley cooper | Leave a comment

Room fantastic — and the sequel is, too!

Posted on November 24, 2015 by reelentropy

The generous billboards for Room won’t tell you one very important thing — it’s actually a double feature. Based on the 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue, which is itself based on several real-world extended kidnapping cases, Room reveals itself through the eyes of Jack … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #A24 films, #brie larson, #enemy, #ex machina, #jacob tremblay, #rape, #room, #sean bridgers, #short term 12, #the spectacular now, #the witch | 1 Comment

Girl Problems from the Machine

Posted on April 24, 2015 by reelentropy

Ex Machina is a beautifully shot, exhilarating film about paranoia and humanity, but it loses some points over its nasty but intriguing gender issues. The film starts with Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) winning a week with Nathan (the scintillating Oscar Isaac), a hermit software … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #A24, #A24 films, #AI, #Alex Garland, #Alicia Vikander, #ex machina, #Google, #Oscar Isaac, #Rise of the Machines | 1 Comment