THE TRIP: The Film Babble Blog Review

THE TRIP (Dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2010) The best parts of this eccentric comedy featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon,  as fictionalized...

CARS 2: The Film Babble Blog Review

CARS 2 (Dirs. John Lasseter & Brad Lewis, 2011) CARS and its new sequel opening today, CARS 2, are the most commercial and formulaic fi...

BAD TEACHER: The Film Babble Blog Review

BAD TEACHER (Dir. Jake Kasdan, 2011) If you've seen the trailer for this crude Cameron Diaz classroom comedy, you've already witnes...

THE TREE OF LIFE: The Film Babble Blog Review

THE TREE OF LIFE (Dir. Terrence Malick, 2011) This is sure to be the most debated film of the year. Just a cursory glance at internet messa...

MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS: The Film Babble Blog Review

MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (Dir. Mark Waters, 2011) Isn't Jim Carrey too old to be doing this kind of movie? A decade ago it seemed like...

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS: The Film Babble Blog Review

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Dir. Woody Allen, 2011) At first glance, Owen Wilson looks like an unlikely Woody Allen surrogate. Yet in Allen's be...

SUPER 8: The Film Babble Blog Review

SUPER 8 (Dir. J.J. Abrams, 2011) Having grown up during the golden age of Spielberg (i.e. the late '70s-early '80s) I was immediate...

JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER: The Film Babble Blog Review

JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (Dir. John Schultz, 2011) In 1996 former Raleigh resident, and former member of local favorites the Co...

DVD Review: RUBBER

RUBBER   (Dir. Quentin Dupieux, 2010) This film opens in a California desert on a road with wooden chairs strewn about. A car drives up knoc...

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS: The Film Babble Blog Review

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2011) Right off the bat it's clear that Matthew Vaughn is a much better fit for the X-MEN movi...