Tag: Guillermo del Toro

Frankenstein (2025) – – Beauty and the Beast?

Written by Diana Paul on November 30, 2025. Posted in movie reviews. No Comments on Frankenstein (2025) – – Beauty and the Beast?

In this artistic retelling of Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus by Academy-Award winning director Guillermo del Toro (of “The Shape of Water”, “Pan’s Labyrinth”, “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Hellboy”), we see his trademark signature of portraying ...

The Devil’s Backbone–Peter Pan meets “The Shape of Water”

Written by diana on August 26, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on The Devil’s Backbone–Peter Pan meets “The Shape of Water”

The Devil’s Backbone (2001) (Spanish: El espinazo del diablo), directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, was independently produced by Pedro Almodóvar and foreshadows his Academy Award winning “The Shape of Water” (see my March 19, 2018 review). Set in 1939 during the final year of the Spanish Civil War, we see in the...

The Shape of Water–E.T. Meets Aqua Man

Written by diana on March 19, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Shape of Water–E.T. Meets Aqua Man

The Shape of Water (2018 Academy Award for Best Picture) is written and directed by the Mexican wunderkind, Guillermo del Toro (of “Pan’s Labyrinth”). Part-fantasy, part-political commentary, and part-love story, “The Shape of Water” is difficult to categorize. The Shape of Water, an adult fairy tale of...

Tag: Guillermo del Toro

Frankenstein (2025) – – Beauty and the Beast?

The Devil’s Backbone–Peter Pan meets “The Shape of Water”

The Shape of Water–E.T. Meets Aqua Man

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