Tag Archives: #tom hanks

‘Toy Story’ came out when I was 3 years old and the world is a very strange place

Posted on June 29, 2019 by reelentropy

8/10 Toy Story 4 was Man, I don’t fucking know anymore. What do people want from movies these days? We’re obviously living in the Golden Age of Television, and there’s a lot of uncertainty right now over the future of … Continue reading →

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Spielberg’s ‘Post’ doesn’t live up to itself

Posted on January 9, 2018 by reelentropy

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 →

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‘The Circle’ trades complex plot for atmospheric chills

Posted on April 28, 2017 by reelentropy

7/10 The Circle could have been better in several ways, but mostly gets where it wants to go. The movie follows Mae Holland (Emma Watson), a recent college graduate who is hired by The Circle, an Orwellian vision of Facebook … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #emma watson, #Google, #john boyega, #tom hanks, Dave Eggers, Facebook, James Pondsolt, Karen Gillan, Nineteen Eighty-four, Orwellian nightmare, Patton Oswalt, surveillance state, the book was better, The Circle | Leave a comment

Inferno is one third of a great movie, then it gets boring

Posted on October 28, 2016 by reelentropy

Oh, that’s right, Sony owns the rights to this series. That explains it. In Inferno, the third film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novels, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns to bring more obscure Catholic conspiracy theories into the mainstream. This go around starts … Continue reading →

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Sully kicks Oscarbate season off to awful, tacky start

Posted on September 9, 2016 by reelentropy

In January 2009, Chesley Sullenberger successfully ditched a commercial airliner in the Hudson River, averting what would have been a massive plane wreck. Now, Clint Eastwood has made things right by making a biopic about him that is just as big … Continue reading →

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