Tag Archives: Paranormal activity

The Möbius strip: All new releases bomb, Batman vs. Superman getting expensive, Star Wars apparently just for boys

Posted on October 26, 2015 by reelentropy

Four new wide releases bombed this weekend, putting The Martian back on top for the third time in four weeks. Two of them, Rock the Kasbah and Jem and the Holograms, rank among the worst opening weekends of all time- Box Office Mojo Presumed no. … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #al queda, #amy schumer, #aurora theater, #Batfleck, #Batman, #batman vs superman, #bill cosby, #braveheart, #DC comics, #fandango, #french blood, #green lantern, #indiana jones, #james bond, #jar jar binks is an abomination, #jem and the holograms, #justice league, #paranormal activity: the ghost dimension, #rock the kasbah, #spectre, #star wars, #star wars: the force awakens, #steve jobs, #suffragette, #superman, #the last witch hunter, #the martian, #the revenant, #the witch, #trainwreck, Paranormal activity | Leave a comment

The Möbius strip: Back to the top of the charts

Posted on October 22, 2015 by reelentropy

After 15 years, Back to the Future won the box office again last night, if only for that one night- The Hollywood Reporter The earliest reviews are in for next month’s Spectre, and people are saying it’s much like Skyfall, for better or worse- Slash … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #american hustle, #back to the future, #crimson peak, #david o russell, #guillermo del toro, #jennifer lawrence, #joy, #maggie gyllenhaal, #maurice pialat, #Netflix, #new hampshire film festival, #skyfall, #spectre, #the bicycle thief, #the ghost dimension, Paranormal activity | Leave a comment

The Visit Shyamalan’s masterpiece

Posted on September 9, 2015 by reelentropy

After the turn of the century, everyone kind of gave up on M. Night Shyamalan. Though he entered the ’00s on a wave of critical acclaim with Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense, he steadily lost steam with dud after dud until the hotly anticipated Last … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #9/11, #AARP, #after earth, #blumhouse, #deanna dunagan, #ed oxenbould, #found footage, #fuck you, #inside job, #kathryn hahn, #katy perry, #m. night shyamalan, #middle finger, #olivia de jonge, #peter mcrobbie, #shooting the bird, #the blair witch project, #the last airbender, #the sixth sense, #the visit, #unbreakable, #universal pictures, Jason Blum, Paranormal activity | 1 Comment

The Gallows generic, visually dynamic

Posted on July 13, 2015 by reelentropy

The Gallows is generic found-footage horror, but in the end it’s quite a likable addition to the endlessly self-replicating subgenre. The film opens with the original 1993 Beatrice High School production of “The Gallows,” which ends tragically when Charlie Grimille (Jesse Cross), … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #blumhouse, #don't say his name, #found footage, #macbeth, #the gallows, Paranormal activity | Leave a comment

The most important movies of 2014

Posted on January 4, 2015 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged American Sniper, Bennett Miller, Boyhood, Capote, Captain America, Clint Eastwood, Dark Skies, Darren Aronofsky, Evan Goldberg, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Foxcatcher, God's not Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Heaven is for Real, History Channel, Insidious, J. Edgar, James Spader, Jeff Bridges, Let's be Cops, Marvel, Moneyball, Night at the Museum, Noah, Oculus, Oren Peli, Paranormal activity, paranormal activity: the marked ones, Persecuted, Robocop, Selma, Seth Rogen, Sinister, Son of God, Spider-Man, Taylor Swift, The Avengers, The Bible, The Giver, The Identical, The Imitation Game, The Interview, The Lego Movie, The Other Woman, Theory of Everything, Transformers, X-men: Days of Future Past | Leave a comment