Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
You’ve heard of the rom-com, well Babes is a new subgenre I call a bab-com! If you’re already familiar with the comedy style of Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau, just know that they don’t stray far from their thing. And Pamela Adlon’s directing is as you’d guess, too, steady and honest. Bring it all together, though, and you get a genuinely sweet, funny and fun movie.
This movie has everything. Things blowing up! Kissing! Big name beautiful stars to look at! Insider movie references! Crazy-ass stunts! A fun soundtrack! Behind the scenes peeks! And more things blowing up!
“Don’t be afraid of the kittens. Let them eat you!”
That’s a pretty good description of how to approach this movie. It’s fluffy and cute, so just let it eat up your afternoon.
Yes, it’s a long movie. Did it need to be that long? Well, if like me you didn’t already know about the Osage killings, then yes it did need to be told carefully and slowly. And there in lies the brilliance of Martin Scorsese’s telling of this dense, multi layered story. In less experienced hands we would certainly have lost the subtlety of the manipulation used by the antagonist to achieve his goal. Along with reflecting the morality of the…