Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstein Review: Mary Shelley’s Classic Gets Its Due
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein plays as a mirror to modern-day hubris. Very emotionally articulated, the film remains a stunning adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. The film is a smart autopsy of unchecked ambition in an era of tech gods. Shelley showcased the creature’s abandonment to expose societal failure in her 1818 novel; here, it is reframed. The god-complex gets real. It escalates from the lab, and the catastrophe unfolds in under two hours. However, Isaac’s Victor starts magnetic, but goes into a cautionary selfie of narcissism. On the other hand, Goth’s Elizabe | Click Here...
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Trailer: Ignites A Literature Classic In The Dark
"My maker told his tale… and I will tell you mine." So opens the thunderous new trailer for Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s long-dreamed descent into Mary Shelley’s gothic underworld, and what a staggering descent it is. With just a few breathless words from the Creature himself, the trailer unfurls like a mournful soliloquy torn from the grave, promising a tale not merely retold, but reborn. The trailer is an elegy soaked in shadow and snow, a dirge of regret, rage, and haunted memory. Through the Creature’s voice, fractured, yearning, furious, we step into a broke | Click Here...
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Finds Humanity In The Monster
With his adaptation of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro has created something far more intimate than a monster movie. What unfolds is a story rooted not in horror, but in heartbreak—a deeply human tale told through Gothic myth and grand cinematic design. Years in the making, this long-cherished project stands as one of del Toro’s most personal works, rich with emotion, memory, and meaning. Rather than leaning into fear, del Toro turns toward feeling. The film follows Victor Frankenstein, played with sharp intelligence and quiet vulnerability by Oscar Isaac. He isn’t the wild-ey | Click Here...
Review Of Nightmare Alley: Is A Very Strange, Mostly Intriguing Tale Of Vicious Avaricious Nonconformists
Nightmare Alley Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn Directed by Guillermo del Toro Rating: *** ½ “I was born for it,” sobs Bradley Cooper’s Stan Carlisle at the end of what is an exhausting and yet exhilarating 160-minute journey into the heart of darkness.He refers to what was known as the ‘geek’ in the circuses of yore where a man was chained and starved and put on display like an animal in a cage. The geek in Nightma | Click Here...