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‘The Whale’ knows exactly what it’s doing

Posted on March 2, 2023 by reelentropy

The Whale is a difficult film to watch, not because of its heavy subject matter, but because the movie’s bad. It’s got an unconventional story structure that’s difficult to enter, it’s designed to be unpleasant, and it’s really manipulative and … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged A24, bisexual erasure, Brendan Fraser, Darren Aronofsky, Foxcatcher, James Gandolfini, The Menu, The Sopranos, The Whale | Leave a comment

Steve Jobs a stunning, electrifying portrait of… someone

Posted on October 21, 2015 by reelentropy

This is the second Steve Jobs biopic in three years, but it will definitely be the last one. No one in their right mind would try to follow this movie. Steve Jobs tells the incredible true sto- I’m sorry, I can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #aaron sorkin, #andy hertzfeld, #art howe, #Ben Affleck, #biopic, #christian bale, #george clooney, #jeff daniels, #joanna hoffman, #john sculley, #kate winslet, #leonardo dicaprio, #makenzie moss, #matt damon, #michael fassbender, #michael stuhlbarg, #mlb, #perla haney-jardine, #ripley sobo, #steve jobs, #steve jobs movie, #steve wozniak, #the social network, #trilogy, #universal pictures, bradley cooper, Foxcatcher, J. Edgar, Moneyball, Seth Rogen, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything | 1 Comment

Straight Outta ways to tell a story

Posted on August 13, 2015 by reelentropy

Biopics can go one of two ways — a ritualistic re-telling of a historic caricature or an encapsulation of the conflict and triumph in an individual’s life. Straight Outta Compton, perhaps more sadly than any other, is the former. The movie goes … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #biopics, #black lives matter, #corey hawkins, #darth vader, #dr dre, #eazy e, #father and son, #fuck tha police, #ice cube, #institutional racism, #jason mitchell, #keith stanfield, #lube is important, #michael brown, #no justice no peace, #no vaseline, #o'shea jackson jr, #paul giamatti, #rodney king, #snoop dogg, #story structure, #the predator, #time is a flat circle, #vaseline, Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher, Moneyball | 2 Comments

The most important movies of 2014

Posted on January 4, 2015 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged American Sniper, Bennett Miller, Boyhood, Capote, Captain America, Clint Eastwood, Dark Skies, Darren Aronofsky, Evan Goldberg, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Foxcatcher, God's not Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Heaven is for Real, History Channel, Insidious, J. Edgar, James Spader, Jeff Bridges, Let's be Cops, Marvel, Moneyball, Night at the Museum, Noah, Oculus, Oren Peli, Paranormal activity, paranormal activity: the marked ones, Persecuted, Robocop, Selma, Seth Rogen, Sinister, Son of God, Spider-Man, Taylor Swift, The Avengers, The Bible, The Giver, The Identical, The Imitation Game, The Interview, The Lego Movie, The Other Woman, Theory of Everything, Transformers, X-men: Days of Future Past | Leave a comment

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