The MovieBabble Staff

The new year has plenty to be excited about. We have a truly stacked slate for the first time since before the pandemic; many industry leaders — including Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Sofia…

Michael Thompson is the longest serving non-violent offender in Michigan history and this year he is finally up for clemency. In 1994, he was arrested for selling three pounds of cannabis to a close friend…

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.   Nick Kush: Genius Loci was on my long list of my favorite movies…

Between 1976 and 1980, young Manhattan photographer David Godlis documented the nightly goings-on at the Bowery’s legendary CBGB, “the undisputed birthplace of punk rock,” with a vividly distinctive style of night photography. Lewie and Noah…

Night shift cleaners in Salt Lake City share their experiences and attitudes toward their essential work.   Nick Kush: While You Were Sleeping is a gentle reminder of the necessary, but mostly unappreciated work that so…

Barry Jenkins’ note on The Gaze: “In my years of doing interviews and roundtables and Q&A’s for the various films we’ve made, there is one question that recurs. No matter the length of the piece…

As the workday grinds to a halt, a gathering of street racers makes way for the backroads of Bakersfield to find catharsis.   Nick Kush: So little is said throughout How to Breathe in Kern County,…

Frank told a joke at work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3 am he’s unable to sleep as he obsesses over his social faux-pas, leading him to contemplate the nature of memory itself.   Nick Kush:…

A Quiet Place: Part II has played a big part in taking movie theaters off life support, nearly matching the opening weekend box office of the original with many theaters still operating at limited capacity.…

Who would’ve thought a pack of dalmatians would be so vicious??? Cruella is out, and, along with A Quiet Place: Part II and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, it marks the unofficial…

A jiggered presentation order, notable upsets, and Glenn Close dancing to “Da Butt” were only a few of the oddities that took place during the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. Soderbergh went full Soderbergh, changing the…

With Godzilla vs. Kong welcoming people back to theaters, extra attention is on the versus/crossover subgenre. It’s not the first time, and it surely won’t be the last time we see two iconic movie characters…

After an astronaut returns from her lunar mission to find that the public lost all interest in the moon, the stories of the astronaut, a film director, and a bear intersect.   Nick Kush: Whether it’s…

Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.   Nick Kush: I love little oddballs such as Freeze Frame, wherein it appears the creator set out to try something just to see what…

A teenage girl takes a step toward adulthood in contemporary Cairo.   Nick Kush: Farida Zahran shows plenty of restraint in telling this coming-of-age story; in the wrong hands, Youth could turn into a needlessly brutal…

As a new show is introduced at an erotic dance theater in Lahore, a sacrificial goat goes missing, a dreamy trans girl desperately tries to become a star, and a naive young boy falls in…

An elderly gay couple living off the grid in the Rocky Mountains finds a deeper love together when dementia threatens their independence. Nick Kush: I adore Bob & Dale’s sparing use of dialogue. The titular couple…

Mark Reiter stands in front of his love’s house as he practices what he will say to her mother.   Nick Kush: The grain of the film and the general rough-around-the-edges aesthetic to Is Your Daughter…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Ode to Desolation shares the story of Jim Henterly, a naturalist, illustrator, and fire lookout as he contemplates the dwindling days of Fire Lookouts in North America. With the influence of technology and AI threatening…

Here at MovieBabble, we like to watch movies, obviously. However, the Coronavirus has created a sudden drop off in the number of new movies for us to watch. But we will not be stopped, and…

Everyone knows the Spider-Man story: man gets bitten by spider, gets spider powers, becomes hero. But radioactive metamorphosis is a two-way street. So what about the spider who bit Peter Parker? Whatever became of him?…