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The Möbius strip: Conjuring soars, Warcraft disappoints domestically but smashes records in China

Posted on June 14, 2016 by reelentropy

While Hollywood’s sequel culture is under intense scrutiny, The Conjuring 2 did fantastic this weekend, opening at no. 1 with $40.4 million. Really the bigger story is Warcraft. After 10 years in Development Hell, the movie based on one of the most popular video … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #china, #industrial light and magic, #jurassic world, #martin scorsese, #Netflix, #stanley kubrick, #suicide squad, #theconjuring2, #warcraft, #world of warcraft, binge-watching, captain america: civil war, duncan jones, Ed and Lorraine Warren, finding dory, finding finding dory, Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, inglorious basterds, John Travolta's career isn't over -- studios just can't market him anymore, Key and Peele, Kubrick Scorsese supercut, One for the studio one for me, Suicide Squad is rated PG-13, superhero genre fatigue, the box office is down this year, The Conjuring 2, The Enfield Poltergeist, the master, The MPAA is a bunch of toothless feckless half-wits, video essays, Warcraft disappoints domestically, Warcraft smashes Chinese box office records | Leave a comment

The most important female characters of 2015

Posted on January 7, 2016 by reelentropy

Something that escaped mention in the previous year-end post is that 2015 was also a fantastic year for women in film, filled with strong characters and stronger economic motivations to serve a female audience. Given that I completely forgot about it … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #brie larson, #bryce dallas howard, #charlize theron, #daisy ridley, #dakota johnson, #domhnal gleeson, #ex machina, #feminism, #fifty shades of grey, #fury road, #jamie dorman, #john boyega, #jurassic park, #jurassic world, #mad max, #masculism, #Oscar Isaac, #prattprattpratt, #rape culture, #room, #star wars, #the force awakens, #tom hardy, #we are not things, #wheresrey | Leave a comment

The most important movies of 2015

Posted on January 4, 2016 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers | 1 Comment

Star Wars: The morning after

Posted on December 21, 2015 by reelentropy

It was pretty much a given that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was going to take several box office records. This is just to round up the ones it took on opening weekend and give a little context for each one. Widest … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #avatar, #clash of the titans, #fandango, #jurassic world, #star wars, #the force awakens, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #twilight, Harry Potter, The Avengers | Leave a comment

Bridge of Spies another Spielberg snoozefest

Posted on October 20, 2015 by reelentropy

Look, Steven Spielberg’s filmography is beyond reproach. The guy essentially invented blockbusters with Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind two years later, and that hasn’t worked out so well, but it’s to his credit for developing the business method. But it’s time … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #, #adventures of tintin, #amy ryan, #austin stowell, #berlin wall, #bridge of spies, #close encounters of the third kind, #cold war, #editing, #forest gump, #gay people that die, #indiana jones, #jaws, #jurassic park, #jurassic world, #kingdom of the crystal skull, #lincoln, #mark rylance, #oscar bair, #oscar season, #philadelphia, #prequel trilogy, #sebastian koch, #steven spielberg, #the bomb, #the constitution, #tom hanks, #war horse | 3 Comments