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MIRROR MIRROR   (Dir. Tarsem Singh, 2012) After a gorgeous animated opening, this new fangled take on Snow White goes downhill faster than a...

MIRROR MIRROR: Painful Pap Through And Through

Now playing in Raleigh at the Colony Theater: THIN ICE (Dir. Jill Sprecher, 2011)    This film starts out in an insurance salesman conven...

Scamming On THIN ICE

Now playing in Raleigh at the Colony Theater: JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (Dirs. Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass, 2011)  This is a day in the l...

JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME: The Film Babble Blog Review

21 JUMP STREET (Dirs. Phil Lord & Chris Miller, 2012)   At one point in this reboot/re-imagining/re-whatever of the ‘80s show 21 Jump S...

Mostly funny 21 JUMP STREET riffs on cop movie conventions

Now playing in Raleigh at the Rialto Theater : FRIENDS WITH KIDS   (Dir. Jennifer Westfeldt, 2011) With its generic title (not to be con...

FRIENDS WITH KIDS: The Film Babble Blog Review

I missed this movie when it played in Raleigh at the Colony Theater, and in nearby Cary at the Galaxy Cinema a few months back, but I just c...

MELANCHOLIA: The Film Babble Blog Review

Although this is a blog primarily about movies, from time to time I post about particular television programs. In this new series, called TV...

TV Obscurities #1: The New Twilight Zone: "Dealer's Choice"

JOHN CARTER (Dir. Andrew Stanton, 2012) None of the history of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars matters to me. I’ve never read the...

JOHN CARTER: The Film Babble Blog Review

DR. SUESS' THE LORAX   (Dirs. Chris Renaid & Kyle Balda, 2012) One of Dr. Seuss’ most enduring tales, “The Lorax,” gets the 3D CGI ...

3D CGI Suess On The Loose