Tag Archives: Marvel

Crouching Marvel, hidden action

Posted on September 10, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has a lot of good components, but they never really come together, and the put-together product is instead so forgettable you can sometimes forget you’re in the process of watching it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Awkwafina, Black Widow, Crazy Rich Asians, Disney, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Shang-Chi, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Shiu Liu, The Raid 2, The Raid: Redemption, Tony Leung | Leave a comment

Stop what you’re doing and go see ‘Snake Eyes’

Posted on August 12, 2021 by reelentropy

9/10 Snake Eyes is the movie people like to pretend MCU movies still are. An underground street fighter known only as Snake Eyes (Henry Golding) drifts from job to job down the West Coast looking for the man who killed … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Black Widow, Bojan Bazelli, Crazy Rich Asians, Disney, Evan Spiliotopoulos, GI Joe, GI Joe Origins: Snake Eyes, Henry Golding, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Monopoly-class movies, Robert Schwentke, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Snake Eyes | 2 Comments

The MCU you loved has been gone for a while now

Posted on July 22, 2021 by reelentropy

6/10 It’s finally here! After almost 20 years of development, 11 years of the character existing in the background, seven years of that with an infamously mangled backstory, and more than a year of pandemic-related delay, Black Widow finally has … Continue reading →

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is deranged and obscene

Posted on December 27, 2020 by reelentropy

3/10 Wonder Woman 1984 is not a film, it is a composite abomination in the spirit of Victor Frankenstein’s blueprints, a shambling patchwork horror of not just its surface-level influences, but the insane business practices and technological shortcuts that brought … Continue reading →

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‘Knives Out’ is a fucking blast

Posted on December 8, 2019 by reelentropy

9/10 I had the chance to see Knives Out for free and couldn’t wait for the chance to pay to see it again. It is so much fun. It’s a kind of fun I’d almost given up on having in … Continue reading →

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