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The most important movies of 2019
Annual top 10 lists are dumb and arbitrary and I hate them, even as I’ve started doing them. We can do better here. Instead of a static list of 10 favorites, 10 peanuts with which to pack the year away … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #Disney, #martin scorsese, #quentin tarantino, #robert eggers, #spotlight, #star wars, #the lion king, 21 Bridges, A Hidden Life, Aladdin, Ari Aster, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bird Box, Black and Blue, Box Office Mojo, Captain Marvel, Dark Waters, Dumbo, Frozen II, It: Chapter 2, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Jordan Peele, Josh and Benny Safdie, Maleficent 2, Midsommar, Official Secrets, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Queen and Slim, Roma, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Disney Empire, The Irishman, The Lighthouse, The Mandalorian, The Report, Toy Story 4, Uncut Gems, Us
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‘Us’ a triumph of genre, auteur filmmaking
9/10 Leaving the theater for the first time, the only thing I’m 100 percent sure about Us is that I need to see it again. At their vacation home in Santa Cruz, California, the Wilson family, mother Adelaide, father Gabe … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #lupita nyongo, #the witch, doppelganger, Get Out, Hands Across America, Hereditary, Jordan Peele, smart horror, Suspiria, Us, Winston Duke
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The Möbius Strip- All ‘Captain Marvel’ all the time, ‘Us’ premiers at SXSW
Captain Marvel zoomed in to save the 2019 box office with a $153.4 million debut and $456.7 million worldwide. That ranks for the third highest March opening, the fifth highest international opening and the sixth highest worldwide opening on the … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #black panther, #brie larson, #china, #mcu, #michael jackson, #oscars, #rotten tomatoes, #samuel l jackson, 2019 Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Grammies, Jordan Peele, Kong: Skull Island, Leaving Neverland, Peanut Butter Flacon, Shia LaBeouf, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Us
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‘BlacKkKlansman’ too focused on its fiction
5/10 BlacKkKlansman opens on footage from Gone with the Wind, a famous crane shot of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivian Leigh) tending to wounded Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Atlanta. It then cuts to an extended scene of Dr. Kennebrow Beauregard … Continue reading
The most important movies of 2017
Top 10 lists are stupid and dumb and boring to write and boring to read. At Reel Entropy, we know better, so we do better — instead of talking about the best movies of the year, we’re going to bring … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #ant-man, #black panther, #deadpool, #denis villeneuve, #Disney, #donald trump, #john wick, #justice league, #rotten tomatoes, #sony, #star wars, #steven soderbergh, #suicide squad, #the force awakens, #warner bros., #wonder woman, aquaman, Atomic Blonde, Beauty and the Beast, Blade Runner 2049, Bright, Chad Stahelski, Darren Aronofsky, David Leitch, Deadpool 2, Edgar Wright, Episode IX, Flashpoint, Fox, gareth edwards, Get Out, It, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3, Jordan Peele, Kevin Tsujihara, Logan, Logan Lucky, mother!, rogue one, Solo, The Highlander, The Last Jedi, the worst August in 20 years, Thor: Ragnarok, Wisecracked
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