Babe is not, as James Cromwell points out in a new interview for the film’s new Blu-ray release ($19.96, Kino Lorber, in a double feature with Babe: Pig in the City), a children’s film. It is, rather, an “adult fairy tale,” a distinction that helps to explain its generation-spanning endurance in the popular culture, in the cinephile’s library, and in the annals of vegan … [Read more...]
‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ jinns up everything but fun
If the manic riffing of Robin Williams occupies one end of the spectrum of pop-culture genies, Idris Elba’s glum and mournful jinn in George Miller’s new film Three Thousand Years of Longing sits, or rather stews, on its opposite end. Downplayed and downcast, he is suffused with languor, his occasional pangs of curiosity toward modern life blunted by sullen memories of previous … [Read more...]