-
Recent Posts
- In the house with ‘Skinamarink,’ the next genre-shaking internet horror classic March 29, 2023
- ‘John Wick 4’ roars, soars to new heights of violence, coolness March 25, 2023
- I demand a new ‘John Wick’ movie every year until I die. March 22, 2023
- ‘Women Talking’ imagines what it wants, but not what it needs March 10, 2023
- ‘All Quiet’ adaptation fails in every way, but especially upward March 10, 2023
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: #spotlight
The most important movies of 2019
Annual top 10 lists are dumb and arbitrary and I hate them, even as I’ve started doing them. We can do better here. Instead of a static list of 10 favorites, 10 peanuts with which to pack the year away … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #Disney, #martin scorsese, #quentin tarantino, #robert eggers, #spotlight, #star wars, #the lion king, 21 Bridges, A Hidden Life, Aladdin, Ari Aster, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bird Box, Black and Blue, Box Office Mojo, Captain Marvel, Dark Waters, Dumbo, Frozen II, It: Chapter 2, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Jordan Peele, Josh and Benny Safdie, Maleficent 2, Midsommar, Official Secrets, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Queen and Slim, Roma, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Disney Empire, The Irishman, The Lighthouse, The Mandalorian, The Report, Toy Story 4, Uncut Gems, Us
Leave a comment
‘Dark Waters’ wants to be the next ‘Spotlight,’ but this ain’t it
3/10 Dark Waters is by no means a bad movie, but it isn’t good, and it seems to know and be weirdly self-conscious about that. Dark Waters, based on the New York Times Magazine Article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #mark ruffalo, #spotlight, All the President's Men, anne hathaway, Bill Pullman, Dark Waters, DuPont, Iraq war, Official Secrets, Rob Bilott, Teflon, The Report, Victor Garber
1 Comment
Spielberg’s ‘Post’ doesn’t live up to itself
7/10 The Post is much more challenging and nuanced than expected, but it ultimately falls short of its ambitions. In 1971, the New York Times drops a bombshell — according to a leaked study that would become known as the … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #mcu, #spotlight, #star wars, #steven spielberg, #tom hanks, All the President's Men, Ben Bagdikian, Ben Bradlee, Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Ellsberg, Kay Graham, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, National Scandal Cinematic Universe, New York Stock Exchange, New York Times, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, Stop, The Post, Vietnam War, Washington Post, Watergate
Leave a comment
The Innocents is a reminder that movies are, first and foremost, art
Steven James @StevenLeeJames I almost didn’t watch The Innocents. That would have been very stupid of me. In December 1945, French Red Cross doctor Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Laâge) is taking care of Polish concentration camp survivors while she and … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #pure flix, #sicario, #spotlight, #steve jobs, #the witch, C-section, Concentration Camp, Go watch The Innocents, literally the only thing I could imagine worse than a concentration camp, Raping nuns, Really? You had to rape the nuns?, Red Cross, Screwing your boss, Still photography in moviemaking, syphilis, The Innocents, The Innocents is beautifully shot, The Innocents is perfectly paced, World War II
Leave a comment
2016 Academy Awards fallout
#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
Reel Entropy 