OF GODS AND MEN: The Film Babble Blog Review

OF GODS AND MEN (Dir. Xavier Beauvois, 2010) The most stirring scene of this immaculately affecting French film involves a group of Trappis...

THE CONSPIRATOR: The Film Babble Blog Review

THE CONSPIRATOR (Dir. Robert Redford, 2010) Robert Redford's 8th film as director finds him again mining the political mechanics behind...

SUPER: The Film Babble Blog Review

SUPER (Dir. James Gunn, 2010) Add The Crimson Bolt to the growing list of superheroes that aren't really superheroes. Just like KICK A...

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011: Days Three & Four

I came home last night late from Durham to a neighborhood without power due to the Tornado sweeping through the area Saturday afternoon. Pr...

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011: Day Two

Another day of nice weather greeted the second day of Full Frame (that may change tomorrow though). I saw a particularly strong group of doc...

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011: Day One

Well, it's that time of year again - time for the 14th Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in, and around the Carolina Theatre ...

HANNA: The Film Babble Blog Review

HANNA (Dir. Joe Wright, 2011) Little girls kicking ass – we need more of that, right? This movie seems to think so. It introduces Saoirse...

ARTHUR: Not Completely Artless, But Still Extremely Annoying

ARTHUR (Dir. Jason Winer, 2011) The one and only improvement that this remake of the fine but slight 1981 Dudley Moore comedy contains is ...

YOUR HIGHNESS: The Film Babble Blog Review

YOUR HIGHNESS (Dir. David Gordon Green, 2011) Sometimes really funny people make really unfunny films. The comic pedigree of the folks invo...

WIN WIN: The Film Babble Blog Review

WIN WIN (Dir. Thomas McCarthy, 2011) I was a little worried during the first 5 minutes of this comedy drama. Mainly since it starts with a ...

EVEN THE RAIN: The Film Babble Blog Review

EVEN THE RAIN (Dir. Icair Bollain, 2010) In FrançoisTruffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT (1973), the famous French director (playing a fictional famou...