Now Playing — Frankenstein
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Then Playing — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Violent Night; The Fabelmans
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, 2022). It’s seem a fine idea for Guillermo del Toro to channel his enduring fascinating for grim fairy tales into a stop-motion animation take on the little wooden boy created … Continue reading Then Playing — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Violent Night; The Fabelmans
Then Playing — Cronos; Duel at Diablo; Time Without Pity
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993). If Guillermo del Toro isn’t exactly a fully formed filmmaker with his feature debut, Cronos, it’s still remarkable how much of his careerlong creative voice is present from the very beginning. Most distinctly, he brings … Continue reading Then Playing — Cronos; Duel at Diablo; Time Without Pity
Then Playing — Nightmare Alley; Moonstruck; Greenland
Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro, 2021). Director Guillermo del Toro brings characteristic visual panache and gleeful excitement over the most lurid doings to this adaptation of a 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel that was previously brought to the screen not … Continue reading Then Playing — Nightmare Alley; Moonstruck; Greenland
Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Four
#44 — The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017) The path always led to The Shape of Water for Guillermo del Toro. Across a career that begin firmly in the horror genre before expanding to other hybrids, practically of … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Four
From the Archive — Hellboy II: The Golden Army
As means of congratulating the highly deserving winner of this year’s Best Directing Academy Award, I will excavate one this review of an old Guillermo del Toro film, which I believe stands as the final such writerly relic that can … Continue reading From the Archive — Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Top Ten Movies of 2017 — Number Four
There’s no doubt that Guillermo del Toro’s sympathies lie with the monsters. In that respect, The Shape of Water is no revelation. Instead it is — marvelously, beautifully — an expression of del Toro’s worldview so perfectly, precisely rendered that … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2017 — Number Four
Greatish Performances #34
#34 — Mira Sorvino as Dr. Susan Tyler in Mimic (Guillermo del Toro, 1997) It was not, according to entertainment industry conventional wisdom, the right sort of project for a freshly minted Oscar winner. A horror film directed by a … Continue reading Greatish Performances #34
Now Playing — The Shape of Water
There is a lot to Guillermo del Toro’s filmmaking that I admire. But the prime feat may be the way he can bend just about any story to his jovially macabre sensibilities. There are times when the manipulation of the narrative … Continue reading Now Playing — The Shape of Water
From the Archive — Pan’s Labyrinth
Look, I’m well aware that the only movie anyone cares about this weekend is set quite some time ago in a galaxy that’s a significant distance from ours. Ideally, I’d devote this weekly exercise in excavation to an relevant piece … Continue reading From the Archive — Pan’s Labyrinth
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