Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022

Let's face it, "Pinocchio" has always been an odd choice for a children's morality tale.

Of course, lying is wrong. But that's not the only message the story sends. Even the classic 1940 Disney version — lighter and more kid-friendly than the 1883 Collodi tale — still sends the message...

Tuesday, May. 31, 2022

One of the most viral moments from the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped over the weekend with the presentation of the Palme d'Or to Ruben Ostlund's "Triangle of Sadness," wasn't a slip on the red carpet or those fighter jets that flew over Tom Cruise's head. It was the director James...

Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022

About half of Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures) had been shot when director Guillermo del Toro decided to shut down production as the global COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Though he wasn’t yet mandated to halt filming, del Toro didn’t want to risk the health and well-being of his...

Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021

With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro's "Nightmare Alley" with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype. 

If "Nightmare Alley" is del Toro's lushly...

Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021

A title like " Nightmare Alley," especially when paired with a filmmaker like Guillermo del Toro, suggests a certain kind of movie. Del Toro, the director of "The Shape of Water" and "Pan's Labyrinth," has a signature style after all. 

But "Nightmare Alley" is not about a haunted house or...

Wednesday, May. 1, 2019

Jim Jarmusch didn't have to look far for zombies.

"I see a lot of soulless ghouls on the streets at night walking along staring into their phone and they don't even know they're in the world anymore," says the director. "Sometimes I just want to shove them out of the way like, 'Wake up!...

Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2019

The Tribeca Talks program will return to entertain and inspire audiences at the 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival taking place April 24-May 5. This year’s lineup will include intimate and once in a lifetime conversations with a diverse list of groundbreaking and critically acclaimed filmmakers,...

Friday, Nov. 9, 2018

A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California has scorched a historic movie site recently used by the HBO series "Westworld" and forced numerous celebrities to join the thousands fleeing flames that have claimed homes and prompted the total evacuation of the celebrity enclave Malibu.

Kim...

Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018

Guillermo del Toro says a push for gender equality in Hollywood "is beyond a gesture, it's a need."

The Mexican director behind the Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water" was speaking Wednesday at the Venice International Film Festival, where he is head of this year's jury. In a passionate...

Thursday, Mar. 8, 2018

The 90th annual Academy Awards were, by any definition, a moment of triumph for Latinos.

Guillermo del Toro became the third Mexican-born filmmaker to win best director, and it was his lavish Cold War fantasy "The Shape of Water" that was crowned best picture. Pixar's box-office smash "...

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