CINDERELLA
Sturdy as a brick lighthouse, Kenneth Branagh’s live-action rendition of this timeless fairy tale is nothing less than exquisite. Branagh’s…
Fariytale
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY
Animation, Children's Cinema, Fariytale, FOUR STARS, Literary Adaptation, Reviews Blog, Women's Cinema
Meshing Japanese animation styles with Mary Morton’s beloved 1952 children’s novel “The Borrowers,” animator-cum-director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and co-director Gary Rydstrom…
PAN’S LABYRINTH — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Coming-of-Age, Criterion Collection, Fantasy, Fariytale, FOUR STARS, Mexican Cinema, Reviews Blog, SHOCKTOBER!, Transgressive Cinema, War
In discussing the leftist political themes of “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” gothic horror maestro Guillermo del Toro responds…
HOODWINKED
On first look, this animated revamping of the Little Red Riding Hood story seems to farm the same well-tilled soil…
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Monica Bellucci steals the movie as The Mirror Queen a 500-year-old immortal ruler intent on attaining eternal beauty by way…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
