How ’The Shape of Water’ became the movie of the moment
In an Oscars ceremony that capped off Hollywood’s annus horribilis, it’s no great shock that Best Picture went to a comfortable, inoffensive morality tale
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Guillermo del Toro
The problem with ’The Shape of Water’ and other ’woke’ films
Guillermo Del Toro’s movie embodies what’s wrong with a certain school of self-satisfied, performatively socially conscious filmmaking
Pacific Rim’s heavy-metal mash of monsters and robots
There has never been a better movie about giant robots battling giant sea monsters
Notes from the Underworld: Reviews of ’Hellboy II: The Golden Army’, ’Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ ’The Wackness’
It’s a weekend of underworld heroes, in all shapes and colours. An infernal brute fights off an underground horde in Hellboy II:...