Holiday Season Cinema Roundup 2012 Part 1

This hasn’t been the strongest holiday movie season I’ve experienced (how could it be without the Coen brothers or George Clooney?), but it’...

Tarantino's Overlong DJANGO Is Off The Chain

Opening today at a multiplex near you: DJANGO UNCHAINED (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2012) Three years after his revisionist World War II epic ...

THIS IS 40 Is Funny But Enough With Your Family, Apatow!

Opening today at a multiplex near you: THIS IS 40 (Dir. Judd Apatow, 2012)   Although it’s being billed as “the sort-of sequel to KNOCKED U...

Tom Cruise Confidently Strides Through Another Action Thriller Formula In JACK REACHER

Opening today at a multiplex near you:  JACK REACHER   (Dir. Christopher McQuarrie, 2012)  As the tough as nails title character, Tom Cruise...

HITCHCOCK Has The Chops, Yet Doesn’t Quite Cut It

Opening today at a motion picture palace near you: HITCHCOCK (Dir. Sacha Gervasi, 2012) Anthony Hopkins’ impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock ...

Announcing Film Babble Blog's Sister Site: Pop Goes The Babble

I’m proud to announce my new blog : I’m overflowing with pop culture material that’s not about movies, so it seemed like it should get its o...

Read Bush Sr.’s Lips In New HBO Bio-Doc

41 (Dir. Jeffrey Roth, 2012)  Our 41st President, George Herbert Walker Bush, tells his story in this HBO produced bio doc releasing today ...

Blu Ray/DVD Reviews: We Can Be Heroes & Angry Boys

Up until very recently I had not been familiar with the comedy stylings of Australian comedian Chris Lilley.  Lilley is very popular in his ...

Blu Ray Review: Eastbound & Down: The Complete Third Season

Danny McBride’s crudely deluded Kenny Powers character keeps on losing while still thinking he’s a winner in the third season of Eastbound &...

Win 2 Chris Lilley Series On DVD

Do you know who Chris Lilley is? If so, do you think he’s funny? If you can tell me who he is and why exactly - in nice detail (use some exa...

ANNA KARENINA: The Film Babble Blog Review

    Now showing in the Triangle area at the Rialto Theatre in Raleigh, at the Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill, and in Durham at the Carolin...