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‘Spider-Verse’ a brilliant, beautiful collision of aesthetics, stories

8/10 Given Sony’s recent history of desperate moneygrubbing, both in general and with Spider-man in particular, I was more than happy to skip Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The film’s premise makes it feel like a gimmick to kick-start the Spider-verse … Continue reading

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Sony is a terrible company that makes bad decisions: a ‘Girl in the Spider’s Web’ story

2/10 In 2011, Sony released its English-language adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by David Fincher and starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, and it was a huge success. It pulled in $232.6 million worldwide for the … Continue reading

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Only official ‘Slender Man’ movie is the worst ‘Slender Man’ movie

1/10 And now to dissect Slender Man, the movie its own studio didn’t want you to see. In rural Massachusetts, four bored teenagers summon the Slender Man. They do this by watching a video on the Internet straight out of … Continue reading

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The most important movies of 2017

Top 10 lists are stupid and dumb and boring to write and boring to read. At Reel Entropy, we know better, so we do better — instead of talking about the best movies of the year, we’re going to bring … Continue reading

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The Möbius strip: ‘Blade Runner’ flops, Harvey Weinstein exposed as a sexual predator

Blade Runner 2049 won the weekend box office, but its $32.8 million intake was a fraction of the $50 million domestic the studios were expecting. That said, it should hardly surprise that a film saddled with the combined incompetence of … Continue reading

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