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Hellboy (2019) movie review: boy, this is hell

Fri, Apr 12, 2019
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Bounces from one preposterous setpiece to another across an inexcusably flavorless magical, monstrous world, and borderline incoherent as it races through the plots of half a dozen different films.

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my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 05, 2018
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I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

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BAFTA 2018 winners announced

Mon, Feb 19, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

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AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

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OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 28, 2017
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Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.

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curated: suddenly I’m a little worried about Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’…

Mon, Sep 18, 2017
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Don’t piss me off, del Toro…

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Crimson Peak movie review: humorous gruesome

Thu, Oct 15, 2015
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A deliciously creepy haunted-house story. Oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make it as funny as it is scary.

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Guillermo del Toro’s “Treehouse of Horror” Simpsons opening credits

Fri, Oct 04, 2013
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Brilliant and hilarious. Enjoy.

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Pacific Rim review: the world goes to war

Fri, Jul 12, 2013
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A war movie in the grandest tradition, set in a rich new fictional universe that we’re going to be talking about for a long time.

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Pacific Rim (trailer)

Thu, Dec 13, 2012
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The Cloverfield monster battles Transformers. Was I supposed to laugh at this? Cuz I did…

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