Tag Archives: Warner Bros

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

‘Space Jam’ is a feature-length HBOmax advert, and was before WB made its move

Posted on August 12, 2021 by reelentropy

6/10 Production for Space Jam: A New Legacy ran June to September 2019, pre-pandemic, so this movie that seems like a purpose-built advertisement for Warner Bros.’ post-pandemic business model never had the pandemic as the reasoning behind it. Was this … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged HBOmax, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Space Jam, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Warner Bros | 1 Comment

‘Little Things’ great but eclipsed by classics

Posted on February 8, 2021 by reelentropy

8/10 Warner Bros.’ moody new noir The Little Things is primarily being dismissed as too close to the 1995 classic Seven, and, yeah. That’s pretty much all there is to say. It’s a beat-for-beat remake of Seven with a significant … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Denzel Washington, HBOmax, Jared Leto, John Lee Hancock, Prisoners, Rami Malek, Seven, The Little Things, Warner Bros | 1 Comment