Tag Archives: Guardians of the Galaxy

Make a different movie.

Posted on August 30, 2021 by reelentropy

Suicide Squad (Ayer, 2016) hit theaters after more than a year of fanfare, polarizing audiences who loved and hated it for a wide breadth of reasons. Five years later to the exact weekend, The Suicide Squad (Gunn, 2021), a remake/sequel/reboot … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged David Ayer, Don't just scrape the mustard off, Guardians of the Galaxy, HBOmax, James Gunn, Kick-Ass, Make a different movie, Make a movie that doesn't suck, Suicide Squad, Suicide Squad (Ayer 2016), The Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad (Gunn 2021), Warner Bros. | Leave a comment

The crippling ennui of ‘Men in Black: International’

Posted on June 29, 2019 by reelentropy

1/10 In 2016, Sony rebooted Ghostbusters, a beloved comedy franchise that’s actually just one good movie and a bunch of other media that everyone forgot about. It lost $70 million. Now it’s three years later, and Sony has rebooted Men in Black, a beloved … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #chris hemsworth, #men in black, #sony, #tessa thompson, Dark Phoenix, F. Gary Gray, Guardians of the Galaxy, intense bisexual energy, Kumail Nanjiani, Men in Black cinematic universe, Men in Black International, The 2020 Lexus RC F, Walter F. Parkes | Leave a comment

‘Brightburn’ soft on satire, complex take on family disfunction

Posted on May 30, 2019 by reelentropy

6/10 Brightburn is a minimalist, almost frustratingly simple film. That’s what might be disappointing about it, and it’s also what might be great about it. In Brightburn County, Kansas, Tori and Kyle Breyer (Elizabeth Banks and David Denman) struggle to conceive a … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #elizabeth banks, #mcu, #suicide squad, Brightburn, David Denman, DCEU, Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn | Leave a comment

‘Hellboy’ is drunk, but tries valiantly to not go home

Posted on April 19, 2019 by reelentropy

2/10 Hellboy isnt’ just terrible. It’s stylishly terrible. In Tijuana, Hellboi (David Harbour), a half-demon known as the world’s greatest paranormal investigator, is forced to kill Esteban Ruiz (Mario de la Rosa), a colleague and drinking buddy who had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #david harbour, #deadpool, #guillermo del toro, #mcu, Charlotte Kirk, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hellboi, Hellboy, Kingsman, Milla Jovovich, Neil Marshall, Ron Pearlman, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Shape of Water | Leave a comment

‘Captain Marvel’ is everything that drives me up a wall about the MCU, I hate it so much

Posted on March 8, 2019 by reelentropy

6/10 It is such a tremendously good thing that Captain Marvel is a movie that exists, but could the movie itself have been good? Is that really so much to ask? In 1996 on the Kree homeworld of Hala, Vers … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #brie larson, #charlize theron, #Disney, #mcu, #samuel l jackson, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Atomic Blonde, Ben Davis, Ben Mendelsohn, Captain Marvel, Debbie Berman, Elliot Graham, Guardians of the Galaxy, Lashana Lynch, Marvel, Nicole Perlman | Leave a comment