For those immune to the charms of Elon Musk’s Twitter™ — a Squid Game-like arena teeming with edgelords, crypto enthusiasts, men’s rights activists who resemble Pitbull, and daily spam messages touting “part-time work” — the current film brouhaha may have escaped notice. In short: a trio of films, eagerly anticipated …
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Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, in theaters Dec. 23, is a movie that should probably hit harder than it does. It is yet another of this year’s magic of the movies movies, flying under the guise of something decidedly more ambivalent. It is a tribute to the joyous and nasty realities of …
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The first offerings from the soundtrack to Damien Chazelle’s roaring Twenties Hollywood flick Babylon have arrived with a wild energy to match the film’s hedonistic vibe. The two songs, “Call Me Manny” and “Voodoo Mama,” are both pulsating blasts of hot jazz stuffed with thundering drums and boozy horns. Composer …
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