Tag Archives: Inception

Rodriguez’ ‘80s action movie ‘Hypnotic’ written in ‘00s, released in ‘20s

Posted on June 19, 2023 by reelentropy

5/10 Hypnotic, writer/cinematographer/editor/director/producer Robert Rodriguez’ sci-fi/noir action thriller starring Ben Affleck may have been a box office bomb and an objectively bad film, but it’s still a guilty pleasure of mine. I know now that it’s a cheap knockoff of … Continue reading →

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On ‘Tenet,’ ‘Fury Road’ and the end of blockbusters

Posted on January 29, 2021 by reelentropy

Tenet came out on DVD Dec. 15, 2020, three months and change after its long-delayed theatrical release over Labor Day weekend. It’s still playing in 70 theaters as this is being written, I’m actually of a mind to go see … Continue reading →

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Don’t try to understand ‘Tenet,’ just feel it

Posted on September 3, 2020 by reelentropy

9/10 God damn it’s good to be back at the movies. A fresh-faced protagonist (John David Washington) is promoted from the CIA to an international secret society called Tenet. He is introduced to “inverted” munitions, bullets made at an unknown … Continue reading →

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‘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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‘Dunkirk’ a white-knuckled thriller

Posted on July 21, 2017 by reelentropy

9/10 Dunkirk isn’t just a movie, it’s a sensory experience. The film tells the story of the Miracle of Dunkirk, the 1940 British operation in which 338,226 soldiers who had been pinned down at Dunkirk beach after losing the Battle … Continue reading →

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