Tag Archives: #mission: impossible

Yes, ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ is really that good

Posted on August 26, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 I came into Mission: Impossible – Fallout wondering, if these movies are so good, why can I barely remember any of them? I won’t be forgetting Fallout any time soon. In the film’s opening, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #christopher mcquarrie, #henry cavill, #mad max: fury road, #mission: impossible, #simon pegg, #tom cruise, flat character arcs, Henry Cavill's glorious $3 million mustache, Mission: Impossible -- Fallout, trolley problem | 1 Comment

The real-life Bourne legacy

Posted on July 29, 2016 by reelentropy

The Bourne Identity is one of those movies that was so massively influential it gets taken for granted. On the eve of the franchise’s second attempt at rebooting, let’s look back at the movie that shifted action on its axis. Going … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise | Tagged #batman begins, #casino royale, #daredevil, #die another day, #mission: impossible, #quantom of solace, #star wars, #the matrix, Jason Bourne, Mission: Impossible II, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Legacy, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Green Zone, The Phantom Menace, The Raid, The World is Not Enough | 10 Comments

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

The Möbius strip: Most films continue to disappoint, Star Wars on track for record-shattering opening

Posted on December 1, 2015 by reelentropy

As expected, part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay took its second crown with $76 million over the five day weekend. The film is still tracking well behind its predecessors. The Good Dinosaur opened in second place to a similar paradox — its … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #, #20th Century Fox, #adam mcday, #alec baldwin, #arthur miller, #bones, #brooklyn, #christopher mcquarrie, #creed, #death of a salesman, #Disney, #eddie redmayne, #exodus, #Fantastic Four, #george lucas, #gods of egypt, #laurence fishburne, #lionsgate, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #pixar, #quinten tarantino, #rocky, #rogue nation, #sony, #spotlight, #star wars, #the big short, #the danish girl, #the force awakens, #the good dinosaur, #the hateful eight, #the hunger games, #tom cruise, #victor frankenstein, #warner bros. | Leave a comment

Jurassic World rampages through flop-filled summer

Posted on September 7, 2015 by reelentropy

We’ve written before about how much better Jurassic World did than anything else, and as the summer went on that article became more and more accurate. As of this writing, only two movies — Inside Out with $348.2 million and Minions with $328.6 million … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #adam sandler, #agent 47, #Alicia Vikander, #american dad, #american ultra, #amy poehler, #amy schumer, #ant-man, #antoine fuqua, #armie hammer, #arnold schwarzenegger, #bill hader, #blumhouse, #bridesmaids, #channing tatum, #chris pratt, #despicable me, #disney pixar, #dope, #dwayne johnson, #elixabeth debickig, #end of days, #entourage, #family guy, #fant4stic, #Fantastic Four, #forest whitaker, #furious 7, #george clooney, #guy ritchie, #HBO, #henry cavill, #hitman, #hugh grant, #inside out, #insidious 3, #jake gyllenhaal, #james wan, #jason bateman, #jesse Eisengerg, #joel edgerton, #john green, #judd apatow, #jude law, #jurassic world, #kevin james, #kristen stewart, #lebron james, #leigh whannell, #lewis black, #Magic Mike, #Magic Mike XXL, #mark wahlberg, #mindy kaling, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mission: impossible -- rogue nation, #no escape, #NWA, #open road films, #owen Wilson, #paper towns, #paul rudd, #peter dinklage, #phyllis smith, #pierce brosnan, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixels, #poltergesit, #rachel mcadams, #rebecca hall, #san andreas, #seth macfarlane, #sinister 2, #southpaw, #spy, #straight outta compton, #sundance, #Ted 2, #Terminator, #terminator genisys, #the fault in our stars, #the gallows, #the gift, #the heat, #the man from uncle, #tom cruise, #tomorrowland, #trainwreck, #transporter, #war room, #we are your friends, #zac efron, Insidious, Jason Statham, Marvel, Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne | 1 Comment