Tag Archives: Greta Gerwig

‘Barbie’ is all about queerness and domestic violence and it took my dumb ass a week to fully realize it

Posted on July 29, 2023 by reelentropy

My Barbie review last week ended with several paragraphs on the romantic relationship played out in stereo between the Barbies and the Kens in the final leg of the film, the main argument being it seems like writer/director Greta Gerwig … Continue reading →

Posted in Reel understanding | Tagged #2001: a space odyssey, #donald trump, Abortion access, Barbie, domestic violence, Don't Worry Darling, Greta Gerwig, my dumb ass, Noah Baumbach, Oppenheimer, queerness, Supreme Court | 1 Comment

Come on ‘Barbie,’ let’s go party with gender theory

Posted on July 23, 2023 by reelentropy

9/10 Barbie is an irrepressible explosion of high fashion, joyous and extraordinary set design and deliberately off-kilter dialogue and body language all delivered with a stone-cold straight face from writer/director/executive producer Greta Gerwig. It may be categorically a satire, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Barbie, gender theory, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, ripping on your shitty ex who likes Matchbox Twenty is never the cool patriarchy-smashing move you think it is, Ryan Gosling, the patriarchy | 1 Comment

Sometimes good things happen

Posted on February 11, 2020 by reelentropy

This was supposed to be 1917’s night, but I came in with a sneaking suspicion. A suspicion that there would be, well, not quite an upset, but the Academy would go a different direction, that they would give 1917 its … Continue reading →

Posted in Beta Decay, White Noise | Tagged #oscars, 1917, Ad Astra, Bong Joon-ho, Greta Gerwig, Joker, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, The Current War, The Irishman | 1 Comment

‘Little Women’ charming, too difficult to follow

Posted on January 8, 2020 by reelentropy

4/10 Louisa May Alcott’s original novel “Little Women” was published in two volumes in 1868 and ’69 straddling a three-year in-narrative timeskip, then published as a single volume in 1880. In this, the seventh film adaptation of the material, writer/director … Continue reading →

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‘Isle of Dogs’ another wonderful Wes Anderson movie

Posted on April 26, 2018 by reelentropy

8/10 Isle of Dogs, the latest from iconic #indie filmmaker Wes Anderson, does little to set itself apart from a body of work that’s starting to become a little too homogeneous — and creates unnecessary problems for itself with the … Continue reading →

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