Tag Archives: Hollywood Babylon

With his revisionist Singin’ in the Rain, Damien Chazelle gives La La Land a blood transfusion

Joyce Glasser reviews Babylon (January 20, 2023), Cert 18, 188 mins. In the first scene of Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, Manuel Torres (Diego Calva) a Mexican dogsbody working for a rich Californian mogu ...

andrew 534 views 0 likes Jan 27, 2023

Will this engrossing, biographical documentary change your view of Charlie Chaplin?

Joyce Glasser reviews The Real Charlie Chaplin (February 18, 2021) Cert 12, 114 mins. The great achievement of Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s engrossing documentary is that even when we learn abo ...

andrew 929 views 0 likes Feb 24, 2022