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Gut reaction: cinema’s new wave of projectile vomiting

From Triangle of Sadness and Babylon to The Lighthouse and Sick of Myself – out later this month – why is there so much puking in high-end movies?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2023

Streaming: Babylon and the best films about Hollywood

Damien Chazelle’s three-hour ode to Tinseltown debauchery joins classic films about Hollywood from Sunset Boulevard to Barton Fink and Adaptation

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2023

After the Iraq War, Saddam’s legendary palaces are open to all

After the Iraq war, the closely guarded, lavish estates belonging to the former strongman were opened to the public.

Al Jazeera · Mar 23, 2023

Review: Babylon

Hollywood swingers.

Reason · Dec 23, 2022

‘Babylon’ review: The glory and cruelty of Hollywood in the last days of silent pictures

As a cinematic study in risk and reward, the first four features from director Damien Chazelle just plain work, often dazzlingly. He knows how and when to move a camera. You know how rare that is these days? Steven Spielberg; Paul Thomas Anderson; a few others. And Chazelle.

Chicago Tribune · Dec 20, 2022

Babylon star Margot Robbie 'grabbed Brad Pitt for unscripted snog' in new movie

Barbie and Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie says she grabbed the chance to kiss Brad Pitt in their new film Babylon which showcases the debauchery of 1920s Hollywood

Daily Mirror · Dec 17, 2022

Margot Robbie stuns with glam lookalike mother at Babylon premiere

The star showed the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2022

Babylon review: Damien Chazelle’s debauched masterpiece has orgies, elephants, spanking and Margot Robbie

Tailor-made to divide audiences, this is the ‘La La Land’ director’s rocket-powered rebuke to claims he’s too sentimental

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

In Iraq's Babylon, age-old building techniques heal climate scars

At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archaeologists are using 7,000-year-old techniques to protect the monument, and the rest of the ancient city of Babylon, from salt seeping into its heart and destroying it from within.

Reuters · Oct 28, 2022

Iranian Authorities Crackdown on Protests Marking 40 Days of Mourning for Amini

Marking 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in Tehran on Sept. 16 after being detained by Iran’s morality police, Iranians took to the streets nationwide in defiance of strict security measures by authorities. Fierce rallies returned with force to major Iranian cities…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 27, 2022