MIRROR MIRROR: Painful Pap Through And Through

MIRROR MIRROR   (Dir. Tarsem Singh, 2012) After a gorgeous animated opening, this new fangled take on Snow White goes downhill faster than a...

Scamming On THIN ICE

Now playing in Raleigh at the Colony Theater: THIN ICE (Dir. Jill Sprecher, 2011)    This film starts out in an insurance salesman conven...

JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME: The Film Babble Blog Review

Now playing in Raleigh at the Colony Theater: JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (Dirs. Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass, 2011)  This is a day in the l...

Mostly funny 21 JUMP STREET riffs on cop movie conventions

21 JUMP STREET (Dirs. Phil Lord & Chris Miller, 2012)   At one point in this reboot/re-imagining/re-whatever of the ‘80s show 21 Jump S...

FRIENDS WITH KIDS: The Film Babble Blog Review

Now playing in Raleigh at the Rialto Theater : FRIENDS WITH KIDS   (Dir. Jennifer Westfeldt, 2011) With its generic title (not to be con...

MELANCHOLIA: The Film Babble Blog Review

I missed this movie when it played in Raleigh at the Colony Theater, and in nearby Cary at the Galaxy Cinema a few months back, but I just c...

TV Obscurities #1: The New Twilight Zone: "Dealer's Choice"

Although this is a blog primarily about movies, from time to time I post about particular television programs. In this new series, called TV...

JOHN CARTER: The Film Babble Blog Review

JOHN CARTER (Dir. Andrew Stanton, 2012) None of the history of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars matters to me. I’ve never read the...

3D CGI Suess On The Loose

DR. SUESS' THE LORAX   (Dirs. Chris Renaid & Kyle Balda, 2012) One of Dr. Seuss’ most enduring tales, “The Lorax,” gets the 3D CGI ...