Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley is an undeniably gorgeous film noir, right from the opening scene. We see a man rip up the floorboards in a decrepit remote house, put a body into the floor, and l…
Sally Hawkins stars as Elisa, a doe-eyed mute woman who works as an overnight cleaner – alongside co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) – in a research facility in 1962 Baltimore. One otherwise inauspicio…
The setting: a boy's orphanage out in the middle of freakin' nowhere at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The building is extremely isolated (of course), and is a whole day's walk across dry scrubby d…
It’s not campy or colorful, but gorgeously dark and gothic and shadowy, like a black-and-white technicolor movie.
Ron Perlman, who last donned mucho prosthetic make-up as Vincent in the cult-hit TV s…
Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known guy who made that movie where Mir…
I don't understand the appeal of watching giant robots smashing things to bits. No, I take that back. I liked The Iron Giant, and Studio Ghibli does fantastic things with robots. Maybe I hate anything…
