Tag Archives: No Country for Old Men

‘Vengeance’ searches for the Deep South, finds West Texas

Posted on August 20, 2022 by reelentropy

8/10 Night, West Texas, red solo cups litter the ground. A young woman is dragged away from a party to die, witnessed only by natural gas wells churning silently in the desert. Two thousand miles away, Old Glory catches on … Continue reading →

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‘Alien: Covenant’ is everything wrong with filmmaking in 2017

Posted on May 19, 2017 by reelentropy

5/10 Watching Alien: Covenant, it’s hard not to think about the death of cinema, as director/producer Ridley Scott recently described with a remarkable lack of self-awareness. Like the edema, back pain and noxious bad breath of advanced renal failure, the … Continue reading →

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The Möbius strip: ‘Hidden Figures’ repeats easily as a whole batch of new releases flops

Posted on January 17, 2017 by reelentropy

Hidden Figures reigned again over Martin Luther King Day weekend, with Golden Globe champion and Oscar favorite La La Land storming up the charts behind it. Of the new releases, it was cheap-looking STX horror flick The Bye Bye Man that performed way over industry … Continue reading →

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