Showing posts with label Guillermo del Toro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guillermo del Toro. Show all posts
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Kaiju New and Old, Among Other Nonsense

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One of the many things I do love  about the Day Job is that we follow an academic schedule. If schools are closed for a holiday, we us...
Monday, July 21, 2014

TV Review "The Strain"

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Director Guillermo del Toro and writer Chuck Hogan came up with their own twist on vampire mythology in their trilogy of novels "The...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Retro Review: "Mama"

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Jessica Chastain had a very interesting 2013. After being nominated for an Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty , she showed up looking very diffe...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Potential Cinema Nerdgasms

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Well, it looks like we may well have another summer and fall of potentially terrific movies ahead of us. I have yet to see Ironman 3 , bu...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

On Kaiju, Cthulhu, Lovecraft and del Toro

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Many of you know that Uncle P is a Lovecraft fan. So it should be no surprise that a few years back I was very excited to learn that Gu...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

If the Feature's Half as Good...

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Writer/Director/Producer Guillermo del Toro has a pretty good track record when it comes to genre films (despite the fairly crappy 2010 ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Kaiju Do Me a Favor?

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Cthulhuzilla? ( via ) "Using the Beta Capsule, Hiyata has become... Ultraman!" As a kid, my first real introductions to Japan...
Friday, October 26, 2012

What Is a Ghost?

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The Devil's Backbone Director Guillermo del Toro's first anti-Franco horror film, 2001's The Devil's Backbone explores...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

A Particularly Twisted Bit of Genius: "Hambuster"

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Hambuster Before we get to tonight's "Main Event" (as it were), there's a new interview out with the brilliant genre di...