Tagged: guillermo del toro
Although there are many versions of the Pinocchio story, from the classic Walt Disney animated feature to Roberto Benigni’s 2002 film, there has to be a good reason to make a new one — especially since it’s a story that most...
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is, to be clear, not a remake of Edmund Goulding’s 1947 film but rather another adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel. The hallmarks of noir fiction–a dissatisfied man cast his scruples aside and attempts...
Just because Jim’s on hiatus doesn’t mean he’s not giving you something to listen to! Revisit some of his favorite conversations from I Do Movies Badly’s past beginning with the Introduction to Guillermo del Toro featuring NYC-based filmmaker Sean Meehan!...
The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first. No, it’s not the Bible – it’s the first film of Guillermo del Toro’s career but the last film in the month (and in Jim’s heart), Cronos.
Past Jim had three main complaints the last time he watched Crimson Peak: everything was too on-the-nose, the scares weren’t scary, and the relationships didn’t work. Current Jim is here to explain why those complaints are stupid and why Crimson Peak is excellent.
Perhaps we shouldn’t say Guillermo del Toro makes “horror” films but rather “terror” films. Don’t get me wrong – there are plenty of things to be scared of in The Devil’s Backbone but “The One Who Sighs” isn’t one of them. After...
In the first NEW I Do Movies Badly episode in over a year, Jim talks with Sean “Undercooked Ryan Gosling” Meehan to discuss the films of Guillermo del Toro. The boys discuss the relationship between DPs and directors, del Toro’s childlike...
Guillermo del Toro has a knack—maybe a passion—for giving us sets and locations that are grand but, at the same time, grimy, soiled or ruined (this goes back at least as far as the abandoned subway set in Mimic). Somehow,...
In this episode, Eric and Michael discuss Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence and Guillermo Del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone.
Tyler and David discuss the movies and TV shows they’ve been watching, including: Movies THE LOST CITY OF Z CHURCHILL PRIVATE PROPERTY CITIZEN KANE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 TV SILICON VALLEY FIVE CAME BACK SURVIVOR THE AMAZING RACE
