Tag: Guillermo Del Toro
Frankenstein | Review
The Seat of the Soul: Del Toro Takes Aim at Shelley’s Monster
Much like its title has been confused as reference to an abominable creation...
2025 TIFF: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ Wins TIFF People’s Choice Award Paving the Way to Oscar Gold
Building on Telluride buzz that preceded it, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet just lassoed the TIFF People’s Choice Award which makes it the bonafide top of...
2025 Venice Film Festival – Who Should Win? Who Will Win!
The verdict is in. The Alexander Payne-led jury has made its decisions, determining the fate of this year's Venice Film Festival competitors. While last...
2025 Venice: Fastvold, Lanthimos, Assayas, Baumbach, Chan-wook, del Toro, Bigelow, Ben Hania, Benny Safdie & Shu Qi in Golden Lion Comp
Valérie Donzelli (À Pied d’Oeuvre), Cai Shangjun (The Sun Rises on Us All), Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) and the directorial...
2025 TIFF: World Premieres Include Gavras’ ”Sacrifice’, Michôd’s ‘Christy’, Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ & Winocour’s ‘Couture’
The Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled the heavy-hitters populating their Gala and Special Presentations sections making what sounds like an alluring line-up for...
Nightmare Alley [Video Review]
Guillermo Del Toro's latest might not feel like a major departure from his general reputation as a creature-centric creator type, but there is a...
Antlers | Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Cooper Wanders Unevenly into Indigenous Lore
Director Scott Cooper moves beyond the comfort of his melodramatic roots with Antlers,...
The Witches | Review
Witch Kitsch: Zemeckis Dons Dahl in Revamp of Stylish Cult Classic
Thirty years ago, Nicolas Roeg, one of cinema’s most innovative cinematographer-turned-auteurs, adapted the 1983...
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Some, including the American literary scholar James English, argue that artists shouldn’t care about awards like the Oscars. Author of “The Economy of Prestige,”...
The Shape of Water | Review
Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama
Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...
Balagov’s “Closeness”, Olsson’s “That Summer” & Quinn’s “Eating Animals” Land in Telluride
While questions still surround when (and where) Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here will have...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio
If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: Picks #25 to #6
For our annual lineup of most anticipated studio films, our goal is to highlight auteurs (and other notable cinematic technicians) who have projects brewing...
Crimson Peak | Blu-ray Review
Unfortunately, Guillermo Del Toro’s original Gothic romance Crimson Peak didn’t translate to box office gold, netting thirty one million at the domestic box office...
Crimson Peak | Review
The Fall of the House of Cushing: Del Toro’s Haunted House Thriller Strangled by Frills
There’s much to admire within the crumbling facades of Guillermo...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
From Faith Akin to Craig Zobel: Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
Before we unleash the beast that is our annual Top 100 Most Anticipated Films List for 2013, we thought we'd give our readers an...
