Writers and directors the world over know how to turn up the heat in any movie with a well-timed kiss, sex scene, or a bit of star nudity. But sometimes,
Academy Award-winner Brad Pitt stars as Jack Conrad, a silver screen icon navigating the tumultuous transformation of cinema in Paramount Pictures’ critically acclaimed epic, Babylon. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, the film
BRIAN VINER: The late 1920s in Hollywood was a time of self-indulgent excess. It is fitting, though not deliberate, that Damien Chazelle s Babylon is wide open to the same charge.
Early in the exhaustingly ambitious epic "Babylon" Damien Chazelle s furious, curious satirical assault/love letter combo to Hollywood an elephant takes a huge dump on a main character s head, indicating that we could be in for a bumpy ride. This sleazy and pleasy debaucherous tale of Hollywood s sound-era infancy constantly operates at two frames short of the dreaded NC-17 rating.