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Did the Romans and Greeks really enjoy orgies?

Orgies conjure in our imagination the world of Greek and Roman Antiquity, thanks to more or less titillating films portraying debauched emperors, or maybe specifically Fellini’s Satyricon. The term is also used today to signify all sorts of excess. For us, the orgy stands for the ultimate celebration of the…

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A Timeline Of Ryan Gosling's Most Memorable Characters Over The Years

Ryan Gosling has played many memorable characters leading up to his work as Ken in Barbie.

Cinemablend

Review: 'Beau Is Afraid' earns its place in the mommy issues hall of fame

Beau knows psychodrama.

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7 best new to Prime Video movies that are 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

April 2023 sees 7 new to Prime Video movies with critical acclaim that are worthy additions to any watchlist.

Tom’s Guide

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

Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

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La La Land to be adapted into Broadway musical

Oscar-winning 2017 film starred Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

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La La Land musical set to open on Broadway

Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning film will be transformed into a stage show featuring music from the same team

The Guardian - US

The nightmarish underside of the dream factory: how Babylon captures Hollywood in the 1920s

In his latest film, Babylon, director Damien Chazelle presents a very different vision of the home of America’s motion picture industry than he did in his Oscar-winning 2016 film, La La Land.

The Conversation

Margot Robbie requested one change to Babylon’s ‘insane’ cocaine-snorting scenes

‘They would rack up lines of coke that were the size of hotdogs’

The Independent UK

Margot Robbie requested one change to Babylon’s ‘insane’ cocaine-snorting scenes

‘They would rack up lines of coke that were the size of hotdogs’

The Independent UK

Babylon review – Damien Chazelle’s messy, exhausting tale of early Hollywood

Despite star wattage from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, the La La Land director’s overcooked portrait of a nascent Tinseltown is more hysterical than historical

The Guardian - UK

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

Diego Calva: the Babylon star on living with Margot Robbie and opening doors for Mexican actors in Hollywood

‘We used to think the Twenties was sanitised, but this was the wild, wild, wild west’

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Babylon: Damien Chazelle's poison pen letter to Hollywood feels masturbatory in its performative self-flagellation

Babylon, the latest from the director of La La Land, Damien Chazelle, stars Robbie, Brad Pitt, an elephant and a mountain of cocaine. But is it more a pile of dung?

France 24

Film show: Brad Pitt in Paris for 'Babylon' premiere

From Brad Pitt attending the Paris premiere of Damien Chazelle's Hollywood epic "Babylon", to the Lumières Awards (the equivalent of the French Golden Globes) and a tribute to the late Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, film critic Lisa Nesselson talks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

ABC News

How Margot Robbie's dreams of making it in Hollywood shaped her role in Babylon

In Margot Robbie's latest film Babylon, she plays Nellie — a dreamer trying to make it big in Hollywood. It's something the actor can relate to.

The Independent UK

‘Are we allowed to show that?’ Margot Robbie is surprised she ‘got away’ with ‘mad’ Babylon orgy scene

‘It was like ‘La Dolce Vita’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ had a baby,’ Margot Robbie said about scene in new Damien Chazelle movie

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Daily Mirror

Margot Robbie collapses at cocaine-fuelled orgy in new movie... and wrestles a snake

Babylon, which stars Hollywood A-listers Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, charts the shift between silent films and the talkies in an era of decadence and debauchery

The Guardian - UK

Babylon breakout star Diego Calva: ‘I owe this role to Margot Robbie. Something happened between us’

His smouldering looks enliven Damien Chazelle’s new Hollywood hedonism film, but life hasn’t always been easy. He talks about being catapulted into the big leagues – and leaving behind his struggles with depression

The Independent UK

Margot Robbie fans defend star as Babylon flops at the box office

‘It’s very interesting to see who is taking the fall,’ posted one fan

Salon

"Babylon": Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!

Perhaps Chazelle's greatest accomplishment here is to make Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt boring

Review: Hollywood epic 'Babylon' is all undressed up with no place to go

For those who think Hollywood has become a cocaine-and-orgy-fueled cesspool that churns out nothing but garbage, "Babylon" is here to assure you: It was always thus.

Chicago Sun-Times

In ‘Babylon,’ Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie share billing with poop, vomit and over-the-top spectacle

Self-indulgent, stomach-churning epic from director Damien Chazelle offers little insight on 1920s Hollywood.

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