Tag Archives: Guillermo del Toro

Frankenstein review — Monstrously beautiful, but it shambles

October 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapting the novel by Mary Shelley | 149 min | ▲▲▲ | Netflix An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. Guillermo del Toro has said this is the film he's always wanted to make, an epic, two-and-half-hour adaptation of… Read More

Nightmare Alley review — del Toro’s noir is grim, gorgeous, and glacial

December 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo del Toro | Written by del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham | 150 min | Crave In October 2017 I was in Toronto for two reasons: One to attend the 50th birthday party of a good friend, the other to see Guillermo del Toro's remarkable… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

The Shape Of Water review — Romantic monster movie a new high point for Pan’s Labyrinth director

December 23, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo del Toro | Written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor | 123 min | Disney+, CBC Gem I've heard two jokey descriptors for this picture, that it's a gothic remake of Ron Howard's Splash, and that it's a Hellboy prequel, focussing on the origins of Abe Sapien. Both takes feel a lot more… Read More

Crimson Peak review — More Gothic, Less Horror

October 20, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, Written by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins | 119 min | VOD This week I noted that Bridge of Spies had some misleading advertising with a somewhat misleading title: It's more a historical drama than a spy movie. For Crimson Peak's promotional assault, the actors and director have been calling… Read More

Reviews From The Vault: Vol. 1

August 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Top 10 of 2005 and 2006

August 24, 2015 flawintheiris

In a couple weeks this blog will be five years old. Accordingly, through the coming fortnight I'm gonna be taking a few looks back. As I've done before, I've stumbled upon some material from the vaults: My list of the best movies of 2005 and 2006, a list I put together for my four year movie broadcast… Read More

5 (+1) Reasons The Time Is Right For #HellboyIII

June 12, 2015 flawintheiris

If you've trawled the nerdier corners of the Internet in the past week or so you can't have missed Ron Perlman's Twitter campaign to fan the flames for a third Hellboy movie. The first two, Hellboy, and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, are adaptations of Mike Mignola's celebrated graphic novels, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. They… Read More

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review — The end of a long road

December 21, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Peter Jackson, Written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo Del Toro, from the novel by JRR Tolkien In the first few minutes of this final visit to Middle Earth by Peter Jackson, my cinepanion and I found ourselves whispering back and forth to each other. We had a lot of questions.… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2013

January 3, 2014 flawintheiris

I measure the best movies of any year by a visceral reaction: When I walk out of the cinema (or away from my home screen, as the case may be) how much do I want to see it a second time, and how soon? Rewatchability is important. With that in mind, please find below a… Read More