By Hollywood is built on “what ifs.” For every role that became iconic, there’s another version of that movie that almost existed, with a very different face at the center of it. Casting decisions come down to timing, contracts, gut instincts, and occasionally pure bad luck. Sometimes an actor turns a
Sundance ‘26: ‘SENTIENT’ a Traumatizing Doc About the Horror of Animal Testing
A profoundly upsetting documentary, Sentient explores the multitudinous horrors of the animal testing infrastructure—not just the physical, psychological, and spiritual toll on the animals, but the damage done to the human technicians, scientists, and doctors complicit in the process, all underpinned by science that may not be as solid as
Sundance ‘26: ‘HOLD ONTO ME’ Sees An Estranged Father-Daughter Bond, Frayed and Fumbling Toward Repair
When 11-year-old Iris’ absentee father, Aris, slinks back into town for his father’s funeral in their sleepy Greek fishing village, she tracks him down to an abandoned shipyard and tries to wedge herself into his pathetic little life. In writer-director Myrsini Aristidou’s Greek-language Hold Onto Me (Κράτα Με), this relationship,
Film Babble Blog’s Top 10 Films Of 2025
For most of the last 12 months, I thought of 2025 as a very weird year for film. There were a lot of high-profile flops including what’s being considered a front runner for the Best Picture Oscar, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, but also movies like the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and TRON
Alexander Skarsgård Reveals Role as a Sexy Wicker Man ‘Intimidated’ Him at Sundance
Alexander Skarsgård can do anything on screen. The Swedish actor, son of Stellan and brother to Bill, has portrayed everything from a thousand-year-old vampire on True Blood to a tech mogul in Succession, to the dominant half of an BDSM relationship in the new A24 film Pillion. But there’s one
