Babylon | Film Review
This recently came out on the Sky Premiere channel and to be honest I watched it on a complete whim. I knew nothing about it, and I barely paid attention to it when it originally came out. But after looking it up and seeing who the director was (Damien Chazelle, director of La La Land amongst other great movies) I was interested in seeing it. In the 1920s, a group of Hollywood artists face extreme ups and downs as the industry transitions from silent pictures to sound films. This film was okay. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. The first thing I noticed was that you can completely tell it's directed by Chazelle. It has a very similar 'old Hollywood' feel to La La Land. This story has a very specific tone that you'll either like or you won't. I personally didn't like it, and it took me a long time to get used to it. Because of that, I wasn't interested in anything that happened for at least the first 45 minutes. I actually turned it off a...