Review: Actor Ron Perlman Takes Center Stage in The Baker, an Action Thriller That Leans on Its Cast
Ron Perlman is a national treasure, and few people know that better than filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who has placed…
Recap: Barry (S4, Ep3) — Expectations are Flipped in a Tense, Explosive Episode
A recurring idea throughout Barry is that life tends to imitate art, especially in the first two seasons, where the stories...
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Features Stunning Animation, Plenty of Humanity and Just a Bit of Terror
If you had told me earlier this year that I would see a film version of Pinocchio that featured a…
Review: Filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu Goes Surreal, Contemplative in Sort-of Biopic Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Having won five Academy Awards, filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Biutiful, Birdman, The Revenant) has made his first film to…
Review: A Wooden Puppet Dreams of Coming to Life While Disney’s New Pinocchio Never Does
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes movies really depress me. I’m not talking about movies with depressing storylines of someone…
Review: In Guillermo del Toro’s Noir Drama Nightmare Alley, Strong Performances Match a Bold Aesthetic
I’ve had enough conversations with director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) over the years to know…
Dispatch: Friday at the Chicago Int’l Film Festival is Perfect for a Spooky Drive-in or International Cinema
It’s Friday at the Chicago International Film Festival, and one big draw this weekend is the big screenings at the…
Review: Over-Acted and Over-Produced, Remake of Roald Dahl’s The Witches Fails to Capture Any Magic
The first thing you notice about the new, Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel The Witches is…
Choose Your Own Adventure Guide to Comic-Con@Home Day 4: Saturday
How are we at Saturday still looking at one more day of Comic-Con@Home? This is far less exhausting than an…
Review: Dolittle Does Very Little with Its New Take on a Children’s Classic
The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into…
Review: Hideo Kojima Delivers With Death Stranding
I have a confession: I’ve never really played a Hideo Kojima game. Silent Hill always looked like the type of…
Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Doesn’t Pander, Does Pack in the Scares
Before you get completely bent out of shape about the fact that this latest horror offering from producer Guillermo del…
