Seeing and Believing 397 | The Starling Girl & The Devil’s Backbone
Kevin and Sarah catch up with Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl then Guillermo Del Toro’s 2001 ghost story The Devil’s Backbone.
Seeing and Believing 136: Steven Spielberg’s The Post and Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water
Wade and Kevin close out 2017 with reviews of two of this winter’s most anticipated films: Spielberg’s ‘The Post’, and Del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water.’
Sympathetic Horror and the Undead Past in ‘Crimson Peak’
‘Crimson Peak’ features clear heroes and villains in its cast of characters, but the film’s true antagonist, which bedevils hero and villain alike, is the lurking past with its manifold sins.
Canceling the Apocalypse? Cosmic Monsters and Tiny Humans in ‘Pacific Rim’
To what extent does Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim hew to H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmicism, and to what extent does it diverge?
