Tag Archives: #warner bros.

Dawn of Justice surprisingly not unwatchable, but an extremely hollow adaptation

Posted on March 25, 2016 by reelentropy

There seemed to be only two ways Batman v Superman: Civil War Dawn of Justice could go — completely awful and also incredibly sad and dull to the point that you couldn’t even laugh at it, or completely awful, but in … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #Batfleck, #Batman, #batman vs superman, #Ben Affleck, #civil war, #daredevil, #Dawn of Justice, #DC comics, #doomsday, #gal gadot, #green lantern, #harley quinn, #henry cavill, #holly hunter, #iron man, #jesse eisenberg, #lex luthor, #man of steel, #margot robbie, #michael shannon, #Netflix, #suicide squad, #superman, #the dark knight, #the dark knight returns, #the dark knight rises, #the killing joke, #the long halloween, #the matrix revolutions, #warner bros., #wonder woman, Captain America, Marvel | 2 Comments

The most important movies of 2015

Posted on January 4, 2016 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers | 1 Comment

The Möbius strip: Most films continue to disappoint, Star Wars on track for record-shattering opening

Posted on December 1, 2015 by reelentropy

As expected, part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay took its second crown with $76 million over the five day weekend. The film is still tracking well behind its predecessors. The Good Dinosaur opened in second place to a similar paradox — its … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #, #20th Century Fox, #adam mcday, #alec baldwin, #arthur miller, #bones, #brooklyn, #christopher mcquarrie, #creed, #death of a salesman, #Disney, #eddie redmayne, #exodus, #Fantastic Four, #george lucas, #gods of egypt, #laurence fishburne, #lionsgate, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #pixar, #quinten tarantino, #rocky, #rogue nation, #sony, #spotlight, #star wars, #the big short, #the danish girl, #the force awakens, #the good dinosaur, #the hateful eight, #the hunger games, #tom cruise, #victor frankenstein, #warner bros. | Leave a comment

Applying Chaos Theory: Showdown of the century

Posted on November 29, 2015 by reelentropy

The global box office ain’t big enough for the both of them. In 2016, the showdown between Warner Bros. and DC and Disney and Marvel will begin in earnest, and things had already started to come to a head in … Continue reading →

Posted in Applying Chaos Theory | Tagged #Batfleck, #Batman, #batman vs superman, #civil war, #Dawn of Justice, #DC, #Disney, #iron man, #man of steel, #superman, #the dark knight, #warner bros., Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel | Leave a comment

Black Mass’ fiction less interesting than reality

Posted on September 16, 2015 by reelentropy

Black Mass is one of those frustrating biopic movies that makes a big deal out of how it’s based on a true story but doesn’t really tell the true story on which it is based. It doesn’t tell a story at … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #adam scott, #alcatraz, #biopic, #black mass, #boston, #Breaking Bad, #corey stoll, #corruption, #dakota johnson, #david harbour, #Daydream Johnny, #family oriented?, #FBI, #fifty shades of grey, #house of cards, #jack nicholson, #jesse plemmons, #joel edgerton, #johnny depp, #kevin bacon, #leonardo dicaprio, #loyalty, #mafia, #martin scorcese, #matt damon, #most wanted, #motive, #mugshot, #Osama, #parks and recreation, #partner in crime, #rory cochrane, #southie, #the departed, #timey wimey, #warner bros., #where's my oscar, #whitey bulger, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Bulger, John Connolly, Sherlock | Leave a comment