Tag: Guillermo del Toro
Film Review: Nightmare Alley (2021)
Coming off of a Best Picture win with The Shape of Water, the interest in what filmmaker Guillermo del Toro would do next and finally,…
Film Road to Halloween: Crimson Peak Isn’t Scary and That’s Okay
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 5 days to…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: El Orfanato / The Orphanage
Horror is one of my favorite genres. This was not true a few years back, when I was still a kid and was easily scared…
Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Cronos, 1993
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Cronos, 1993 Mercedes-Benz Award – Guillermo del Toro…
Why The Shape of Water is the Oscars Best Picture of 2017
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a beautiful tale of love conquering all. The plot is relatively simple; a fairytale for troubled times set…
The 90th Academy Awards Showed Signs Of Moving Forward And Backwards
How do I explain how the 90th Academy Awards went? Well, for the most part, every award went according to plan which made the ceremony…
25 Years Of DGA And This Year's Oscar Race
Since 1993, do you know off the top of your head which director has been nominated with the Directors Guild of America the most times?…
BAFTA Announce Their Film Nominations
The British Film Academy (BAFTA) announced their nominations in film for 2017 early this morning. Denis Villeneuve’s Director nod for Blade Runner 2049 was an…
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water uses the unlikely, surreal story of a romance between a mute woman (the excellent, poised Sally Hawkins) and a captive, sentient sea-creature played…
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Love The Shape Of Water
The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society announced their first ever award winners on Tuesday. LAOFCS was started last year to support Los Angeles online film…
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Really Like Three Billboards
The Las Vegas Film Critics Society has announced their annual awards, and this year, they went with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as their Best…
GENRE BLAST: Things That Go Bump, III – Fantasy
They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.
