Tag Archives: The Witch

‘Longlegs’ shakes the horror genre, will turn your stomach and bust you gut in one night out

Posted on July 22, 2024 by reelentropy

Writer/director Oz Perkins’ new masterpiece Longlegs is going to change horror forever. It’s an absolute knockout, eerie, haunting and disquieting while also just joyful enough to put several grins on your face. Oregon, 1990s- FBI Special Agent Lee Harker (Maika … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Longlegs, maika monroe, Mandy, Nicolas Cage, Oz Perkins, Satanic Panic, Silence of the Lambs with more Satan, The Blackcoat's Daughter, The Witch | Leave a comment

‘You Won’t Be Alone’ slides silently through theaters, one of year’s best

Posted on June 7, 2022 by reelentropy

9/10 You Won’t Be Alone made a little more than a quarter million in theaters, but what’s the point of writing about movies all the time if I’m not going to make time for one of the year’s best pictures. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A24, Focus Features, Folk horror, Goran Stolevski, Macedonian, The Witch, You Won't Be Alone | Leave a comment

‘Northman’ a sloppy, gory mess of perfect filmmaking shot for the halls of Valhalla

Posted on May 2, 2022 by reelentropy

10/10 The Northman is the wildest action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road. Film is art supposed to evoke an emotion, and the emotion The Northman evokes is incoherent screaming. Within the first half hour, I wanted to smash my … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Alexander Skarsgård, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Hamlet, Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse, The Northman, The Witch | 1 Comment

A24 as genre in ‘Lamb’

Posted on November 4, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 As movies continue to centralize and series entries become more uniform, A24 studios, which still feels like an upstart studio after nine years in operation, has been a haven for weirder films. But as the distributor has become more … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A24, A24 genre, horror, Lamb, Midsommar, The Witch | 1 Comment

It’s OK if you didn’t get ‘The Green Knight’

Posted on August 13, 2021 by reelentropy

9/10 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight completes the evolution of distributor A24 from a distribution conglomerate, which simply bought festival films to pump and flip into theaters, to a production company, to a brand and finally to its own … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A Ghost Story, A24, Alicia Vikander, David Lowery, David Lynch, Dev Patel, Hereditary, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Green Knight, The Witch | Leave a comment