Jordan Peele

If you were to ask me for a list of the most exciting directors working today, Jordan Peele would be very high on my list, if not at the very top. In 2017, Peele burst…

On this week’s episode of the MovieBabble Podcast I am joined by Nick, Collin, and Jonathan as we get excited for the year to come and all things film in 2022.  We offer up our…

Thirty years ago we were treated to Wes Craven’s deliriously entertaining socially-conscious horror roller coaster, The People Under the Stairs. When we talk about Craven’s oeuvre, the usual suspects are mentioned: the exploitation classic, The…

1992’s Candyman is considered a classic of the slasher genre — mythologically inventive, steeped in relevant racial themes, and far more ambitious than contemporary slasher films; which at the time were so verging on self-parody…

COVID-19 fundamentally changed how we watched films in 2020. Many of our favorite movies of the year opted for streaming and on-demand releases, and a good portion of cinemas across the globe closed. Much of this…

Upon finishing Antebellum, I needed about half an hour to gather my thoughts. I then needed another two hours when I saw the overall critics and audience consensus on Antebellum was definitively disappointed. Did I…

When I saw Relic at the Sundance Premiere in January (it feels like an eternity ago), I was floored. Catching up with the film before sitting down to pen this, soon to be, overwhelmingly positive review,…

How high can Dumbo fly? To quote another Disney movie, it’s more “falling with style” than it is flying. Dumbo takes the weekend, but with a much narrower victory than its budget warrants as Us continues…

Let me set the scene for you: It is a Thursday night, the rain pours all around us, my colleague and I are trudging through the rain and gloom to head to the nearby cinema…

Jordan Peele has cemented himself as an elite force in Hollywood with Us. The spiritual follow-up to 2017’s Get Out far surpasses early estimates, eclipsing the $70 million mark at the domestic box office. Captain…

Get Out was a comet that smacked into the middle of the public consciousness, igniting a groundswell of buzz, discussion, and more memes than Twitter could handle. It’s one of the few word-of-mouth successes in…

Farewell 2018 and hello 2019! With a new year comes more movies to enjoy, laugh or cry to, make fun of or throw a tantrum over. But today that’s all irrelevant as we focus on…

In 2017, Get Out took the box office by storm with its unique blend of horror and subtle social commentary. Spike Lee takes a turn at bat against racism in 2018 with BlackKklansman. If Get Out…

At the Sundance Film Festival in January, many critics left screenings raving about one film: Get Out.  That initial praise has seemed to continue as Get Out currently stands at a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes…