Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s Frankenstein’s Monster After bumping around the traditional film studios for the last 25 years, Guillermo del Toro signed an overall deal with Netflix in 2020, which has, so far, worked out well for the filmmaker. His anthology series, Cabinet of Curiosities, is interesting and showcases the work of various filmmakers such as By Sarah • Feb 09, 2023 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Hell is other people in Nightmare Alley Following the fish f-cking of The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro returns the slightly more normal world of monstrous humanity, where there are no fish-men or haunted houses or magical labyrinths, only the hell of other people. Directed by Del Toro, and adapted by Del Toro and Kim Morgan By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 01:58 pm
Award Season Campaigning Del Toro, Coop, and Cate enter the race One of the big question marks of the 2021 awards season was Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, a new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel (there is also a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell) of the same name. Del Toro literally JUST finished the film, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scary Stories to wreck you for life Raise your hand if Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark completely f-cked you up for life. Thanks to the Scholastic Book Fair, I got all of those nightmare tomes long before I should have been allowed to read them—where were the adults in my life?!—and now I By Sarah • Feb 04, 2019 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Shape of Water If you ask me to describe Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water, the short answer is: Amelie f*cks a fish monster. The long answer, though, is that The Shape of Water is a beautiful, tender, sweet, sincere, sorta funny, definitely weird, deeply romantic film about love and By Sarah • Sep 12, 2017 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Guillermo, Sally, and Octavia in Venice Ethan Hawke, subject of an earlier post today, starred in a film that was released earlier this year called Maudie. We posted an exclusive first look at Maudie a few months ago. You can also read Joanna’s review here. When Jacek first saw the preview, based on just a By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Boyega takes over for Charlie Hunnam Do you remember Pacific Rim? It’s Guillermo Del Toro’s kaiju vs. robots movie that stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba as the guy who cancelled the apocalypse. It is not a great movie, and did only mediocre at the box office, but Universal has decided to take a By Sarah • Jun 07, 2016 04:06 pm
Quiveration Friday Hunnam It’s Friday. And normally on Fridays Guy Ritchie posts a photo of Charlie Hunnam on Instagram to make our weekend but he’s wrapped on Knights Of The Round Table so that probably won’t be happening so much anymore. Happily though, Charlie delivered for us instead. He went By Lainey • Jul 17, 2015 11:24 am
Maple Leaf Ryan Gosling’s Lost River at SXSW Ryan Gosling presented his film, Lost River, at SXSW this weekend. First, a conversation moderated by his friend, the director Guillermo del Toro. The two are apparently quite close. Throughout the discussion, even though the film was not well received in Cannes, del Toro repeated several times how much he By Lainey • Mar 16, 2015 11:23 am
Maple Leaf Ryan Gosling's new best friend Ryan Gosling was at Disneyland yesterday. I guess I came a day too late. But he's here so much - as we've seen - it's not like it's totally impossible that he wouldn't be back again 24 hours later. Anyway, By Lainey • Feb 24, 2015 01:33 pm
Guillermo del Toro Intro for July 12, 2013 Dear Gossips, Pacific Rim is now in theatres. I encourage you to see it this weekend. Click here to read my review from earlier this week. But then again, I might be biased. Because I have great affection for Guillermo del Toro. Two weeks ago, I was in San Francisco, By Lainey • Jul 12, 2013 10:04 am
Lainey Interviews On Ron, Charlie, SoA Like I said re: Game of Thrones, there’s less than a page of Sons of Anarchy panel photos from Comic-Con. And maybe 2 full body shots of Charlie Hunnam. As opposed of course to Twilight which takes up at least 30 pages between all its castmembers including, like, Ashley By Lainey • Jul 26, 2011 09:59 am