6 h. ago BRIAN VINER reviews The Wizard Of The Kremlin: Jude's latest big screen tyrant... Putin (with a Sarf London twang)

BRIAN VINER: It is a riveting account of how political power evolved in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how it all ended up in the hands of a former KGB agent.

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22 h. ago James Bond favourite looks unrecognisable with bushy beard and long hair

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who is hotly tipped to play the next James Bond, caused quite a stir at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday at the premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

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29 h. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: More a dark fairy tale about fatherhood than a horror film... despite the slicing

There have been well over 200 screen interpretations since the first in 1910, and now the mighty Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has had a crack.

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29 h. ago By 'eck, what would Boris Karloff say? Jacob Elordi gives Frankenstein's monster a Yorkshire accent, writes ALISON BOSHOFF

The actor, who is one of the most desirable men in the world, said yesterday that he had, indeed, decided to 'go Yorkshire' for his portrayal of 'the creature' in Guillermo del Toro 's forthcoming film.

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37 h. ago Paris Jackson puts on a daring display in a plunging leather gown as she joins Rosie Huntington

The daughter of Michael Jackson was among the stars who jetted to Venice Film Festival for the premiere of the Guillermo del Toro remake on Saturday.

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37 h. ago Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual styleGuillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical strangeness but that’s enough about his film version of Pinocchio. Now Del Toro has written and directed a bombastic but watchable new version of Mary Shelley’s great novel and makes of it a stately melodrama, starring Oscar Isaac as the anatomist and passionate freethinker Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature: no passé neck-bolts or big fringey forehead, of course, and if you compare him with portrayals by other actors – Boris Karloff, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro – he is, for all the picturesque prosthetic scars, the nearest this iconic figure has come to being a bit of a hottie.It’s an epic bromance between scientist and monster, both of whom speak wit...

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37 h. ago Frankenstein, Venice review – Guillermo del Toro’s elegant adaptation is all show and little substance

Jacob Elordi is a very sympathetic monster in this visually stunning but thematically lacking film, which co-stars Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth

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40 h. ago Guillermo del Toro insists new Frankenstein film is not AI metaphor

New adaptation of the classic story is set to premiere on Netflix in November

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50 h. ago Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to premiere at Venice with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi are expected at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”

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3 d. ago Jay Kelly review: George Clooney's new film is a real bore, writes BRIAN VINER

Expectations of this Netflix comedy, by writer-director Noah Baumbach, were sky-high.

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3 d. ago A look into the Bleak House auction items Guillermo del Toro had the hardest time letting go of

Guillermo del Toro has made his mark in horror and built a hefty memorabilia collection along the way

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3 d. ago Guillermo del Toro almost lost his movie memorabilia in a wildfire. Now, he's letting some of it go

Guillermo del Toro rose to fame creating horror movies that will likely help shape the genre for generations to come

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5 d. ago Venice Film Festival kicks off with Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘La Grazia’

The Venice Film Festival kicks off with the world premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” on Wednesday evening

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5 d. ago From Frankenstein to Putin, monsters are stalking the Venice film festival

Artistic director says monsters are ‘fil rouge’ this year, as Guillermo del Toro unveils his vision of Shelley’s classicWhen Guillermo del Toro accepted the Bafta for best director in 2018, he used his speech to pay homage to Mary Shelley, calling her “the most important figure from English legacy”.“She picked up the plight of Caliban and she gave weight to the burden of Prometheus,” del Toro said. “She gave voice to the voiceless and presence to the invisible, and she showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters, we need to fabricate monsters of our own.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago 12 películas del Festival de Cine de Venecia que generarán expectativa

El Festival de Cine de Venecia ofrece este año una abundancia de riquezas de autor. La 82ª edición cuenta con películas de Guillermo del Toro, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant y Luca Guadagnino, por nombrar algunos. Incluso Charlie Kaufman tiene un cortometraje ("How to Shoot a Ghost").

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1 week ago 12 movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival to get excited about

The Venice Film Festival is showcasing an impressive lineup this year

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1 week ago Frankenstein Netflix: Launch date twist for Guillermo del Toro's Edinburgh

The film will now show in selected cinemas ahead of its Netflix release

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1 week ago ‘Terrifying’ Netflix horror movie based on iconic novel gets release date with unexpected twist

Guillermo del Toro's much-anticipated adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has an unexpected twist for Netflix viewers

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3 w. ago Freakier Friday review: Twice as many body swaps, but this ropy sequel's only half the fun, writes BRIAN VINER

In Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film again starring Lohan and Curtis, the phenomenon befalls not just one pair of females but two, writes Brian Viner.

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