It’s a cruel time for new TV series that don’t immediately hit. There are no participation awards or points for trying in the world of television commissioning; it’s succeed or die. Unfortunately for the UK shows below, they didn’t win a big enough audience or enough plaudits to keep them
Movies That Will Make You Feel Better About the World Today
2025 has barely begun but it already feels like a lot. Climate change-fueled wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles and parts of Southern California while unease grips the news. A moment of transition on at least one side of the pond for our U.S. readers breeds apprehension, and the rest
Wolf Man: How Much ‘Man’ Do We Really Want in a Werewolf?
Last September, well before Halloween and a full four months out from Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of a Universal Monsters classic, The Wolf Man, we got our first look at Whannell and Blumhouse Productions’ new take on the famous werewolf. Supposedly. While a theme park performer visibly stood in front of
The Best Werewolf Transformations in Movies Ranked
The idea of werewolves has existed since long before movies came along. The concept goes back to antiquity with ancient Greek historian Herodotus writing in the fifth century B.C. about a colony where settlers were transformed into wolves for several nights of the year; several centuries later the story of
A Film Babble Blog Retrospective: David Lynch In Three Films
The passing of one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, David Lynch (January 20, 1946-January 15, 2025), made me go back to the reviews I’ve written of his work over the years for Film Babble. In the almost 21 years that I’ve had this blog, I posted about three of the