Tag Archives: Warner Bros

New ‘Superman’ flies low under a long shadow

Posted on July 11, 2025 by reelentropy

After 12 excruciating years, Warner Bros. has given up the ghost and paved over the muddy, miserable Man of Steel with a sunny, cheerful new Superman movie, with James Gunn as writer, director and producer and affixed as the chief … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged David Corenswet, DCEU, DCU, Elon Musk, James Gunn, Long live the DCU, Man of Steel, MCU, Nicholas Hoult, Suicide Squad, Superman, The Batman, The DCEU is dead, The Suicide Squad, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder | Leave a comment

‘Flash’ is really bad

Posted on July 20, 2023 by reelentropy

1/10 The Flash is bad. The first action sequence where Flash has to save a neonatal care ward falling from the 43rd floor of a hospital is funny-bad – no matter how much the movie is winking here, I’m still … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged 9/11, bad, DCEU, Ezra Miller, Fantastic Beasts, Flashpoint: Into the Batman-Verse, Justice League, Man of Steel, The Flash, The Flash is bad, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder | Leave a comment

At the end of its life, DC keeps going back to poisoned well in ‘Shazam 2’

Posted on April 27, 2023 by reelentropy

7/10 In 2019, Shazam! was one of the first popular successes for the DCEU, which was already long-dead by this time. It’s fun and flighty, but from a franchise this desperate that holds this tight a grip on its movies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Jack Dylan Grazer, Shazam!, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the eternal queer metaphor of superheroism, Warner Bros, Zachary Levi | Leave a comment

The thing about bigots is they never stop telling on themselves

Posted on April 18, 2022 by reelentropy

Imagine there’s a woman – white, liberal, wealthy, you know the type. She doesn’t pay much attention to politics, but she knows Hitler was bad – she even seems to understand some of the reasons why – and she despises … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Colin Farrell, Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Johnny Depp, Lilly and Lana Wachowski, Mads Mikkelsen, Warner Bros | Leave a comment

Reexamining ‘The Matrix’ as primarily a love story

Posted on January 16, 2022 by reelentropy

Reactions to The Matrix Resurrections, the new long-gestating revisitation of the turn-of-the-century series, have been extremely strong and extremely mixed in ways that I don’t feel like quantifying. I’ve been torn between the desire to write about it and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Reel understanding, White Noise | Tagged Lana and Lilly Wachowski, MPAA, Ritalin generation, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Resurrections, Warner Bros | Leave a comment