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Posts Tagged "Guillermo del Toro"

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Cronos ***½ (1993, Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook) – Classic Movie Review 2005

Guillermo del Toro’s eerie, imaginative and atmospheric 1993 Mexican horror movie centres on an extraordinary, mysterious mechanism encapsulated into a small, bug-like golden device, designed and built by an alchemist in 1535 to provide its […]

Dec, 28

Mimic **** (1997, Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Charles S Dutton, Josh Brolin) – Classic Movie Review 2003

Co-writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s exciting 1997 horror movie stars Mira Sorvino as scientist/entomologist Dr Susan Tyler, who genetically creates and conjures up a new breed of insect to destroy killer cockroaches that carry a virulent […]

Dec, 28

Mama *** (2013, Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) – Movie Review

Mama is a pretty good, well-crafted Spanish version of the Japanese drippy water, scary videos, troubled mamas kind of chillers. It has its tense and scary moments, plus a whole lot of atmosphere. Co-writer director […]

May, 03

Hellboy **** (2004, Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor) – Classic Movie Review 1068

‘It all began in 1944, a classified mission off the coast of Scotland. The Nazis were desperate. Combining science and black magic they intended to upset the balance of the war. I could never have […]

Apr, 07

Blade II *** (2002, Wesley Snipes. Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Thomas Kretschmann, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Luke Goss) – Classic Movie Review 1066

Wesley Snipes returns as in director Guillermo del Toro’s 2002 sequel to the 1998 hit Blade, as Marv Wolfman’s cartoon superhero Blade, a vampire-hunter swordsman who’s half-vampire himself, but gets out in the daytime with […]

Apr, 06

Pacific Rim **** (2013, Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day) – Movie Review

The deservedly admired Guillermo del Toro’s much anticipated sci-fi action adventure focuses on a troubled future world, in another post-apocalypse scenario, where this time alien monsters called Kaiju (Japanese for giant beast) that look remarkably […]

Jul, 07

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