Tag Archives: Spider-Man

Predictably, Huntsman is a colossal mess

Posted on April 25, 2016 by reelentropy

The Huntsman: Winter’s War is partially a prequel to Snow White and the Huntsman and partially a sequel. The plot has a timeskip in it, and the narrator — Liam Neeson, somehow — says “that entire movie happened in this spot.” It’s half-and-half. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #charlize theron, #chris hemsworth, #cinderella, #emily blunt, #jessica chastain, #kristen stewart, #liam neeson, #madagascar 3, #prometheus, #rupert sanders, #snow white and the huntsman, #sony, #the huntsman, #twilight, #winter's war, Spider-Man | Leave a comment

Only thing they sacrificed was opportunity to tell a great story

Posted on October 1, 2015 by reelentropy

So when I heard there was going to be a new biopic about chess legend Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) called Pawn Sacrifice, I thought that was a neat title. They were going to do a thing with it, where he was … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #bleeker street, #brothers, #chess, #chess nerds, #das jueden, #delusional, #genius, #liev schreiber, #movie magic, #nerds, #paranoid, #pawn sacrifice, #Photoshop, #the details, #the jews, #tobey maguire, #turd polishing, #world chess championships, Spider-Man | Leave a comment

Ant-Man staring at lowest Marvel opening in four years

Posted on July 16, 2015 by reelentropy

Remember how amped everyone was in 2008 for Iron Man? There’s been a lot of noise in the past few months, strengthened by Age of Ultron’s performing less than The Avengers on the same weekend and Comic Con, about superhero fatigue finally setting in over the next … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip, White Noise | Tagged #ant-man, #DC, #evangeline lilly, #Fantastic Four, #iron man, #michael douglas, #paul rudd, #sony, #the dark knight, #the incredible hulk, #Thor, Captain America, Marvel, Spider-Man | Leave a comment

A less chaotic state: 2003’s Daredevil

Posted on April 29, 2015 by reelentropy

Way back at the turn of the century when Marvel began its two decades and counting dominion over the box office with X-Men, no one could have imagined the sustained success the film industry would eventually bring them, but it’s looking more and more … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state | Tagged #13 Going on 30, #20th Century Fox, #Age of Ultron, #Alias, #Avengers, #Batfleck, #Batman, #Ben Affleck, #Breaking Bad, #daredevil, #Dawn of Justice, #Director's cut, #Elektra, #Fantastic Four, #Ghost Rider, #Gigli, #Hulk, #Jennifer Garner, #Jersey Girl, #Mark Steven Johnson, #Michael Clark Duncan, #Netflix, #one-shots, #Paycheck, #Sony Pictures, #Surviving Christmas, #Vincent D'Onofrio, #Widowmaker, #X-Men, Marvel, Spider-Man | 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