Thursday, February 26, 2015

Neko Case & Mike Nesmith Talk REPO MAN For Film Acoustic: Part 2

This is part 2 as the conversation between Neko Case and Mike Nesmith at the Carolina Theatre in Durham following a screening of REPO MAN e...

Neko Case & Mike Nesmith Talk REPO MAN For Film Acoustic: Part 1

Film Acoustic, the Carolina Theatre’s new series which pairs special guests with their favorite movies, went down in Durham earlier this wee...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Bad Timing For BATMAN

Months ago, the Colony Theater in Raleigh (where I work part-time) booked Tim Burton’s 1989 superhero hit BATMAN for Wednesday, February 18...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Oscars 2015: Oh, How Wrong I Was

For a while, during the broadcast of the  87th Academy Awards broadcast, which I watched at the Rialto Theater in Raleigh (pictured above) l...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Mike Leigh's MR. TURNER: Very Pretty, Witty, But A Trifle Lengthy

Now playing at a indie art house near you: MR. TURNER (Dir. Mike Leigh, 2014) Timothy Spall, best known as Peter Pettigrew aka Wormtail in ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Hey Kids! Funtime 2015 Oscar Picks!

Yep, here we go again. The 87th Academy Awards Ceremony is this Sunday, February 20th, so it's time for Film Babble Blog's official ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

New Releases On Blu Ray & DVD: 2/17/15

I haven't done one of these posts in a while, but as a few of today's new releases on Blu ray and DVD are notable Oscar-wise, I thou...
Monday, February 16, 2015

KINGSMAN: A Good Popcorn Picture Until The Popcorn Runs Out

Now playing at a multiplex near you: KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (Dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2014)  In Matthew Vaughn’s fifth film, an adaptation...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

STILL ALICE: The Film Babble Blog Review

Now playing at art houses, and a few multiplexes near me: STILL ALICE (Dirs. Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, 2014) Julianne Moore ...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Two Epic Fantasy Fails: JUPITER ASCENDING & SEVENTH SON

This last week hasn’t been a good one for me in the big ass 3D CGI-ed fantasy film dept. I had the displeasure of donning the annoying plast...