Tag Archives: #james wan

Survey’s in – no, ‘Aquman’ did not save the DCEU

Posted on March 31, 2024 by reelentropy

It’s over. It’s finally over.

Posted in Entropy | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

‘Aquaman’ gets big picture wrong, gets details wrong too

Posted on December 29, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 Last year, The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s fairy tale love story about banging a frog person, won best picture, and I warned at the time to be ready for an influx of movies about sexy frog people. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

‘The Nun’ is 90 minutes of unvarnished nonsense

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

1/10 Imagine if The Evil Dead 2 took itself seriously. That’s The Nun. The Nun is that bad. “The darkest chapter of The Conjuring Universe” – because aping the language of its sister Insidious series wasn’t enough, they also had to … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

‘The Dark Knight’ 10 years later

Posted on July 18, 2018 by reelentropy

It’s the Citizen Kane of superhero movies. That comparison gets thrown around a little more often than it should, but it’s completely appropriate in this case. Citizen Kane in 1941 was really the movie that alerted mass audiences to the … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Fresh director can’t elevate bland horror prequel

Posted on August 11, 2017 by reelentropy

3/10 The eminent horror production studio has started to inject real talent into its movies, but it’s clearly not always going to be enough. In Annabelle: Creation, a group of orphans moves into the spacious, rural house of the mysterious … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment