Tag Archives: #pulp fiction

Decent ‘Scary Stories’ can’t capture books’ magic

Posted on August 15, 2019 by reelentropy

7/10 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a film caught between its iconic source material and a risk-averse production that leans heavily on the exhausting, bland choices common in the past decade’s horror. Still, there are significant highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #guillermo del toro, #pulp fiction, #sin city, Insidious, Ouija, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Seven Psychopaths, Stranger Things, The Bye Bye Man, The Conjuring, Truth or Dare | Leave a comment

You’ve probably already missed ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’

Posted on November 6, 2018 by reelentropy

8/10 I remember an era in my youth, before Marvel, before Lord of the Rings, when you could go see a movie and have it just be a movie. Any given show was expected to provide its own, complete world … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #chris hemsworth, #dakota johnson, #halloween, #nick offerman, #pulp fiction, #the hateful eight, A Star is Born, Bad Times at the El Royale, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Venom | Leave a comment

‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ sloppy but fun

Posted on August 18, 2017 by reelentropy

7/10 The Hitman’s Bodyguard isn’t much of a film, but it’s a riot of a movie. As vicious Belarusian dictator Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman) stands trial in the World Court for countless atrocities, prosecutors can’t get witnesses to the stand … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #deadpool, #pulp fiction, #ryan reynolds, #samuel l jackson, Gary Oldman, Selma Hayak, The Hitman's Bodyguard, The seat belt rule, This wold does not deserve Samuel L Jackson, You do not take the name of Kurosawa in vain | Leave a comment

2016 Academy Awards fallout

Posted on March 1, 2016 by reelentropy

#Oscarssowhite dominates the ceremony The Academy Awards are normally awful, but this year, they traded in the usual tedium for a three-hour apology for #oscarssowhite that managed to cast a pall over the entire ceremony. It’s easy to see why … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #affirmative action, #alejandro inarritu, #annie hall, #argo, #birdman, #chariots of fire, #cheryl boone isaacs, #chris rock, #drive, #eddie murphy, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #forsest gump, #fury road, #george miller, #heaven's gate, #it follows, #its on us, #joe biden, #lady gaga, #leonardo dicaprio, #mad max, #michael fassbender, #morgan freeman, #oscars, #oscarssowhite, #pulp fiction, #raiders of the lost arc, #ride along 2, #sam smith, #samuel l jackson, #sicario, #spotlight, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the artist, #the revenant, #tom hardy, Transformers | 1 Comment

Hateful Eight the most distinctly Tarantino movie yet

Posted on January 1, 2016 by reelentropy

The Hateful Eight is a double-edged sword. Everything to like about it is also something to dislike. The film is a bottle movie, with eight — nine, including the carriage driver — strangers snowed into a lonely coffee shop a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #bruce dern, #demian bichir, #django unchained, #jennifer jason leigh, #kurt russell, #michael madsen, #open bar review, #pulp fiction, #quinten tarantino, #reservoir dogs, #samuel l jackson, #the hateful eight, #tim roth, #walton goggins | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: #pulp fiction

Decent ‘Scary Stories’ can’t capture books’ magic

You’ve probably already missed ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’

‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ sloppy but fun

2016 Academy Awards fallout

Hateful Eight the most distinctly Tarantino movie yet

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