Blue Jean initially premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September of last year, but its global theatrical rollout, which initially began in the United Kingdom in February, has finally branched out into other nations …
Venice Film Festival
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Wife of a Spy won the Silver Bear for Best Director at last year’s Venice Film Festival. I had heard of director and co-writer Kiyoshi Kurosawa (not related to the late great master of Japanese …
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As it happens, human history is so speckled by atrocities, so littered with tragedies and the bodies left behind from them, that We-As-A-Collective are bound to forget more than we memorialize. It’s simply the law …
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Editor’s Note: The following review of The Truth initially ran during MovieBabble’s coverage of the 2019 Denver Film Festival. The Truth (La vérité) seems a particularly tricky film to handle. It covers the stormy reunion …
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ComedyReviews
‘Babyteeth’: A Vibrant, Yet Bittersweet and Transgressive Take on the Teen Cancer Dramedy
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesAs MovieBabble’s unofficial and self-appointed Australian correspondent, it is my obligation to pounce on any Australian film that falls into the lap of the MovieBabble staff to review. My ears especially prick up when I …
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ReviewsSuperhero
‘Joker’ is a Seemingly Provocative Yet Ultimately Empty Genre Exercise
by Nick Kushby Nick KushWith Joker being such a blatant homage to the works of Martin Scorsese and other filmmakers that told scuzzy New York dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, it’s interesting timing that Scorsese himself, while on …
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PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast
‘It Chapter Two’ Floats Past $90 Million While the Venice Film Festival Confuses Us All (The MovieBabble Podcast Ep. 35)
It Chapter Two proves that Pennywise still has some spooks left in him. The sequel to 2017’s biggest runaway horror hit, is back, albeit with somewhat smaller returns. As a result, Angel Has Fallen has finally fallen from …
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PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast
The World of Movies: July Rundown (MovieBabble Presents: Babble With Brennan Ep. 3)
by Brennan Dubéby Brennan DubéLots went down in the world of movies in July. Festival slates were announced for Venice and TIFF, Comic-Con took place, we were hit with a barrage of new trailers, and yet another financially successful …