Del Toro has induced young creatives like me with films that have continuously elicited the land of dreams that kept him awake as a young boy. From his 1993 mythological and religiously infused work Cronos; to his adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics’ anti-hero Hellboy; to his Oscar-nominated and disobedient fairy tale Pan’s Labyrinth; to his 2017 success found in the tender and lyrical romance The Shape of Water (also … Continue reading Guillermo Del Toro: Falling in Love with Monsters

In what part of life do we decide to be serious? For some people, it starts early. The random person in high school not many people understand who is submitting university applications early and doesn’t have original jokes. In five years or less, they’re employed in a steady job, have a kid and you look at them as you would a car crash: it happened … Continue reading Growing Up and Getting Boring (Or Not): Wrestling Reality in ‘Frances Ha’