The Monkey’s Overreliance Humor Undercuts It’s Potential
Fresh off of last year’s sleeper horror hit <i>Longlegs</i>, writer/director Osgood Perkins’s quickly returns to the big screen with an adaptation of a short story from legendary author Stephen King. In <i>The Monkey</i>, twin brothers Hal and Bill,…
Read More »Heart Eyes Has Cult Classic, Franchise Potential
We’ve seen an influx of holiday themed horror slashers in recent years and the production team behind the Scream franchise revival Spyglass Media is trying their hands at one centered around the ultimate romantic holiday. In Heart Eyes,…
Read More »Presence Combines the Paranormal with Drama For An Interesting Concept
Famed director Steven Soderbergh has returned to cinemas with an interesting new horror concept. Presence introduces us to the Payne family as they move into a new home. The family’s matriarch Rebecca (Lucy Liu) views it as an…
Read More »Top Performances of 2024
In anticipation of tomorrow’s Oscar nominations announcement, we here at CinemaBabel have compiled our top picks for 2024’s best in film performances both in front of and behind the camera. See how our picks stack up against the…
Read More »Magnetic Performances Make Unstoppable The Feel Good Film of 2024 (Middleburg Film Festival)
Based on a true story, Unstoppable introduces us to high school wrestler Anthony Robles (Jharrel Jerome) who lives with his mother Judy (Jennifer Lopez), stepfather Rick (Bobby Canavale), and his siblings. Anthony has dreams of wrestling on the…
Read More »Wolf Man Lacks Bite Where It Needed It
******************This review contains a major spoiler********************* Following the unsuccessful attempt at launching a cinematic universe of its legendary monsters, Universal Pictures went back to the drawing board and outsourced the attempt at modernizing the iconic terrors to indie…
Read More »I’m Still Here and Quiet Strength
I’m Still Here tells the true story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), the wife of a former Brazilian politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) who finds himself a target of the Brazilian military dictatorship of the 1970s. After Ruben…
Read More »Pamela Anderson Shines in The Last Showgirl (Middleburg Film Festival)
The passage of time, particularly for women, has been a theme in 2024’s film slate and the movies that explore this have been buoyed by notable performances from star actress past who have moved onto their latter life…
Read More »The Brutalist is a Big, Epic Cinematic Swing (Middleburg Film Festival)
I am sure by now if you’re the type to pay attention to film awards or the buzz around fall film releases, you’ve heard the hype surrounding The Brutalist. Because it is a smaller independent film, its release…
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Mickey 17 is Thematically Ambitious to a Fault, but Still Entertains
Writer/director Bong Joon Ho vaulted into the mainstream consciousness with the success of 2019’s Parasite, winner of four Academy awards including Best Picture, the first international feature to do so. With that momentum in mind, his return to…
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