Babylon

Express News Service Anyone who has seen films made before the 60s knows Hollywood showed us a different, heavily sanitised version of the people who lived back then.…

Margot Robbie in ‘Babylon’ Yes, Damien Chazelle’s love-letter to Hollywood is over three hours long, but it does zip by in a hectic cavalcade of colourful excess. While it might be empty…

BRUCE R. MILLER Hollywood loves to make movies about Hollywood.There’s something very insider-ish about pulling back the curtain and showing what the…

The slap sat front and centre at February 13’s Oscar nominees luncheon.So much so that motion picture academy president Janet Yang neither had to describe it nor say the names Will Smith or…

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is poised to kickstart Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in style, transporting us to the populated, urban megacity of Quantum Realm. In what feels…

Director Damien Chazelle writes a new love letter to Hollywood in the visually ambitious epic “Babylon,” a story that harks back to a time when silent films were being overtaken by the first…

“I’ve never before been surrounded by so many naked people in my life,” exclaims actor Diego Calva, describing the bacchanalian set piece that opens “Babylon.” “The background artists, the…

Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz are one of the more exciting director-composer pairings of the new century — a millennial corollary to the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann…

What you think you know about 1920s fashion will change after you watch “Babylon,” the three-hour epic retelling of the nascent and outrageous Los Angeles film industry. Packed into a…

BRUCE R. MILLER Damien Chazelle did a fine job peering in at Hollywood in “La La Land.”So how did his “Babylon” go so wrong?Attempting to tell the story…