Guillermo del Toro

Pleasure in the Rubble: Why the Summer's Last, Smallest Blockbuster Was Its Best

Pacific Rim Review: Guillermo del Toro Tries to Make a Better Blockbuster

Directors Discuss the Obscure, Bizarre Films They Love

Robert K. Elder, a writer and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, is a veteran of crowdsourced cinephilia, having written The Film That Changed My Life, featuring discussions with film directors on the subject. His new book is The Best Films You've Never Seen, which discusses those films that never re ... More >>

Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

Warning: This discussion is thick with spoilers

Anthrax's Scott Ian on Why Horror Movies and Metal Go Together

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian is playing songs from the band's 1987 thrash metal masterpiece Among The Living and their new covers record Anthems on tour right now. He's also taken on a second gig hosting Fangoria's Blood and Guts, a YouTube series on The Nerdist Channel in which he meets with masters ... More >>

Cinefamily's Telethon Will Include Robert Downey, Jr. Digging Up a Time Capsule, and More

The Hobbit Review: Why Peter Jackson's Prequel Is for Tolkien Obsessives Only

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Sizzurp, Sci-fi and 'Murrica

Sergio Osuna -- Drunk, Half-Nude Intruder -- Sneaks Into Signal Hill Home, Crawls Into Bed With 10-Year-Old Girl

Sergio Osuna, ghetto Goldilocks.​Nude intruders are weird. Drunk nude intruders are weirder. But drunk, (half) nude intruders who crawl into bed with 10-year-old girls and sort of just lay there, all silent and creepy, are the stuff of Guillermo del Toro's nightmares. One traumatized little gi ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Who's Your Superhero?

LACMA Salutes 50 Years of Cannes Discoveries

Screening series draws on La semaine de la critique

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Friday Schedule: Adult Swim, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Archer and More

Friday, June 23 is Star Wars Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Bring a lightsaber. SDCC announced its Friday schedule this morning. Even if you're one of the few that isn't into Star Wars, there will be plenty to do. Here are our picks from the schedule. Feel free to leave your own in the comment section. ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival: Reviews, A to Z

Our critics weigh in on what — and what not — to see

Last Night: Guillermo Del Toro Descends on Meltdown to Sign Novel The Strain

Even amongst the Hollyweird crowd, staying up past the witching hour on a Monday night for a book signing at Meltdown Comics takes dedication. Then again, one has to take into account context, or in this case subject: writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, who is promoting his first foray into noveliz ... More >>

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

Movie Reviews: Dark Streets, Nothing Like the Holidays, Timecrimes

Also, What Doesn't Kill You, While She Was Out and more

AFI Fest: A to W

Our comprehensive guide to more than 40 festival titles

Mogwai's Hollyweird Sonics Are Ready for Their Close-Up

Is Scottish rock quintet the "perfect soundtrack for murder"?

Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Devil May Care

Big Red returns in Guillermo Del Toro's mindless, revved-up offering

LAFF 2008: Hell to the Yeah

I guess LAFF doesn’t want me to talk about how the premieres go, since my tickets for them have ended up being in overflow houses far away from the actual red carpet and celebrities, so if you want to know what Guillermo del Toro may or may not have said to introduce HELLBOY II, I can’t help ... More >>

LAFF 2008: Whiskey Wanted

What to make of a film festival that made its name on indie fare now opening and closing with big-budget summer blockbusters from Universal? In fairness, the folks behind the Los Angeles Film Festival have thought that one out, noting that both WANTED and HELLBOY II are directed by critically acclai ... More >>

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#5-1)

5. Dungen-Tio Bitar [Kemado] Dungen did not tour this record in America. This is because the band's mastermind, Gustav Estjes was rumored to be alone in the snowy Swedish hinterlands, ingesting enough hallucinogens to give Hunter S. Thompson pause, and trying to untangle the beautiful mess of sou ... More >>

The Orphanage: Lock Up the Kids

It’s a hard-knock life — and creepy

Juan Antonio Bayona: Refinding Neverland

A conversation with The Orphanage’s master of melancholic terror

Too Cute for Their Own Good

Little children in the movies

Short People, Short Lives

At today’s multiplex, kiddie kills are all the rage

The Scars of Oscars

Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

Film Reviews

Wild Movies From Hollywood and Korea

Hellboy and Shaolin Soccer lookin’ goooooood!

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

Great Expectations

Alfonso Cuarón hits the road

Crossover

The fluid boundaries within director Guillermo del Toro

Cine: Introduction

No Borders

Making and selling The Other Conquest