Tag Archives: HBOmax

‘Reminiscence’ blends film’s past with apocalyptic future

Posted on September 9, 2021 by reelentropy

10/10 You shouldn’t trust me with Reminiscence. I’m weak to this film. Miami- In the near future, the ocean has swallowed the city. It’s partially held back by a sea wall several stories high, but the streets that remain are … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Climate change, film noir, HBOmax, Hugh Jackman, Lisa Joy, Rebecca Ferguson, Reminiscence, Warner Bros. | Leave a comment

Make a different movie.

Posted on August 30, 2021 by reelentropy

Suicide Squad (David 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 (James Gunn, 2021), … 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. | 4 Comments

‘Space Jam’ is a feature-length HBOmax advert, and was before WB made its move

Posted on August 12, 2021 by reelentropy

6/10 Production for Space Jam: A New Legacy ran June to September 2019, pre-pandemic, so this movie that seems like a purpose-built advertisement for Warner Bros.’ post-pandemic business model never had the pandemic as the reasoning behind it. Was this … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged HBOmax, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Space Jam, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Warner Bros | 1 Comment

‘In the Heights’ flat in every possible sense of the word

Posted on June 22, 2021 by reelentropy

2/10 In the Heights is borderline unwatchable. Everything is bad. Alice Brooks’ cinematography is downright incompetent, and every decision by editor Myron Kerstein is questionable at best and obviously wrong at worst. Jon M. Chu is a weak director, befitting … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Alice Brooks, Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Do the Right Thing, HBOmax, In the Heights, Jimmy Smits, Jon M. Chu, La La Land, Leslie Grace, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Melissa Barrera, Myron Kerstein, Quiara Alegria Huedes, Tenet | 1 Comment

‘The Conjuring’ and that long-fabled franchise fatigue

Posted on June 6, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 The Satanic panic never really ended. The surge of news about “Satanism” that started as a religious offshoot of the rebellious ‘60s and consumed the suburbs of Reagan’s America with fears of pedophiles and kidnapped children being used for … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Ed and Lorraine Warren were known frauds in their own time, Eugenie Bondurant, HBOmax, Michael Chaves, patrick wilson, Pureflix, Satanic Panic, The Conjuring, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Curse of La Llorona, The Exorcist, Vera Farmiga | Leave a comment