A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon — The cast and crew discuss the inspiration and motivation behind the original story and development of this epic, 15 years in the making. show (or at least a couple of primers beforehand), it contains a few subtle exposition dumps that should help rookies wring a decent amount of Several years ago, I was reviewing Whiplash. I absolutely loved it. The performances, the visual style and even the subject matter in spite of me having not having a single ounce of musical talent. As it turned out, audiences did too. It garnered an Oscar win for J.K. Simmons. It also might be said that the most odd thing to recall about the follow-up film, La La Land, was that it “won” the Academy Award for Best Picture – but after the “glitch was fixed”, we know that the trophy went to Moonlight. I wasn’t too much of a fan of Chazelle’s next outing – First Man. I’m a fan of movies about space travel and the like, but this one didn’t really do it for me. Well we’re now treated to Hollywood, circa the roaring 20’s and they were called that for a reason. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy (and long) night. Babylon was shot on film and looks satisfyingly grounded on Blu-ray. The picture holds some softer corners but is otherwise in very fine shape, as well where vintage products and props enjoy hearty definition. Color rendition is fine, presenting with excellent depth and tonal variance. Color

and fabric definition excel. Likewise, the picture thrives in some of its larger-scale settings, especially outdoors, but also on various interior movie sets BABYLON follows an ambitious cast of characters — The Silent Film Superstar (Brad Pitt), the Young Starlet (Margot Robbie), the Production Executive (Diego Calva), the Musical Sensation (Jovan Adepo) and the Alluring Powerhouse Performer (Li Jun Li) — who are striving to stay on top of the raucous, 1920s Hollywood scene and maintain their relevance at a time when the industry is moving on to the next best thing. Please Note: Paramount Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray I reviewed in this Post. The opinions I share are my own. being his first time watching the finished film. But die-hard fans will definitely want to give it a listen, as there's some good info shared and insight The company also has the 2020 Sundance Film Festival official selection Wander Darkly coming to Blu-ray and DVD on 2/9.

This two-disc release ships in a dual-hubbed keepcase with attractive cover artwork, a matching metallic slipcover, and a Digital Copy redemption Babylon' follows an ambitious cast of characters -- The Silent Film Superstar (Brad Pitt), the Young Starlet (Margot Robbie), the Production the extremes of human behavior at the top fo the success chain. The opening celebration of debauchery underscores the rest of the film, including A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. just a few short months before Babylon 5's long-awaited Blu-ray debut and is even fairly accessible for those who aren't as familiar with its universe.

particularly soaking in the opportunity to act with near limitless inhibition, whether she's acting within her part in a film-within-the-film or The first series is a bit OK but underpins the rest of the story, and it really gets into its stride in the second series, and just keeps getting more intense until the story conclusion at the end of the fourth series. Fifth is a bit OK, and was more an attempt to create a second long arc storyline, but stumbled in trying. One cannot talk Babylon without talking about its excess and, indeed, its extreme excess. In some ways the film brings to mind The Wolf of Wall Street, certainly a film in a whole different league in and richer colors. The picture appears more organically filmic as well, with the grain remaining light but certainly, here, a touch more robust and

Babylon: Other Editions

Babylon's 2160p/Doby Vision UHD release offers a fair upgrade from the Blu-ray, at times only subtly superior and at others more obviously superior. crew members including voice actors Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy, Peter Jurasic, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman; director Matt went the animated route*. Designed as an ambitious victory lap for the fan-favorite series, it arrives on home video -- in optional 4K, no less adapting their show into a feature-length animated film, and the unfortunate loss of so many castmates during the last several decades. A decent narrative and timeframe and so on and so forth, but the pictures share an appetite for slathering the screen in as much sexual frenzy and self