Babylon 4K UHD Steelbook [Blu-ray] [Region A & B & C]

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Tags: Brad Pitt, Chloe Fineman, Damien Chazelle, Diego Calva, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Flea, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Lukas Haas, Margot Robbie, Olivia Wilde, Patrick Fugit, Phoebe Tonkin, PJ Byrne, samara weaving, Spike Jonze, Tobey McGuire. As always, my favourite part of any Steelbook is opening it up and seeing the choice of the interior slip covers. Every ploop, flop, gush, squeak, and schloop is given pinpoint precision placement in the soundscape.

And even though Babylon lacks proper pacing, it still finds ways to be utterly captivating at various times throughout. Robbie is superb and continues to just steal scenes in whatever movie she’s in, and here she even gets to crank it up an extra notch or two. It’s the tale of Hollywood moving from silent films in the 1920s to those with sound into the 30s, and it does earn the often used “love letter to Hollywood” tag given to films with this sort of industry, inside focus. Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy, a confident, overly ambitious, self-proclaimed star who attends the party that begins the film thanks to the help of Manny Torres, a Mexican immigrant played by Diego Calva whose path intertwines with Nellie’s throughout the film.

With both the audio and visuals reaching outstanding levels at least Babylon can be experienced at home as close to its theatrical counterpart as possible. Frequent Chazelle collaborator Linus Sandgren once again proves he’s one of the best shooters working today.

Updated daily and in real-time, we track all high-def disc news and release dates, and review the latest disc titles.While there are a number of truly engrossing and fun moments, there are also times when you’re just waiting for the plot to move forward. This smooth and glossy SteelBook will show handling fingerprints in its darker areas, which make up most of the exterior. A tale of overweening ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of several characters during a time of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.