Hellboy (2004)Director: Guillermo del ToroScreenwriter: Guillermo del ToroStarring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Brian Steele, Ladislav Beran, Biddy Hodson, Corey Johnson, Kevin Trainor In 2004, over a decade out from his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro had directed two Spanish-language passion […]
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About 40 minutes into this latest take on Pinocchio you might be feeling like it’s a pretty standard re-telling of the story using the most labour-intensive form of animation there is. But then the wooden boy ends up in a kind of limbo, escorted by undead rabbits to an audience with the sphinx-like Angel of
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The Orphanage (2007) Director: J.A. Bayona Screenwriter: Sergio G Sánchez Starring: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Geraldine Chaplin, Andrés Gertrúdix, Edgar Vivar, Óscar Casas Oftentimes an executive producer presenting a project to an audience doesn’t count for a lot. Steven Spielberg didn’t manage to do a lot for Michael Bay’s
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Nightmare Alley (2022) Director: Guillermo del Toro Screenwriters: Guillermo Del Toro, Kim Morgan Starring: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins A Guillermo del Toro film is an event, a spectacle which has the potential to transcend cinema and become something more. In his return to the big
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Pan’s Labyrinth/El laberinto del fauno (2006) Director: Guillermo del Toro Screenwriter: Guillermo del Toro Starring: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo, Manolo Solo “A long time ago, in the Underground Realm, where there are no lies or pain, there lived a princess who dreamt of the human world”. Mexican
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Director: Andre Ovredal Screenwriters: Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Guillermo del Toro Starring: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris Horror movies released before September generally fall into three categories: the films from directors like Ari Aster, Jordan Peele and John Krasinski that are really popular
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