Month: January 2019

Serenity Combines Hardship, Spirituality, and Tech with Neo-Noir Thrills

************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Throughout our time spent on this Earth, we all will experience hardship, pain, and challenges, albeit some more than others. When these tough times hit us, many will often try to find solace in…

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Glass and the Power of Belief

Glass is the third film in a trilogy of films written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that includes 2000’s Unbreakable and 2017’s Split. The third installment find us thrust into Raven Hill Psychiatric Hospital where David Dunn (Bruce…

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The Best Performances of 2018

The year has finished and Oscar season is one again upon us. Before the Academy has all the fun, CinemaBabel has compiled its own list of “nominees” and top picks recognizing the best performances in film this year….

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Best Films of 2018

2018 was a year in film marked by parity. There doesn’t feel like much distance between film #1 and film #11, nor does it feel like a truly great film was released this year, just a lot of…

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If Beale Street Could Talk and The Audacity of Love

Loving someone is one of the most audacious, risk-taking things a person can do. When you love someone, you entrust them with your mental well-being, wagering that they will honor your faith in them and not lead you…

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Shoplifters is a Superb Family Drama Full of Mystery and Uneasy Moral Questions

************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Family plays an indelible mark in who we are as individuals. A good one can set a person up for life before they ever even leave the womb while being born to bad circumstances…

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In Thoroughly Examining Our Political Past, Vice Provides a Peek at America’s Future

“You chose me, and I did what you asked.” Vice is a retelling of the political rise of former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), from his Wyoming roots with wife Lynne Cheney (Amy…

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