In 1944, the Spanish Civil War ended, but guerrillas continued to engage in sporadic resistance. Ophelia, a girl who loves reading fairy tales, sets out with her heavily pregnant mother on an arduous journey to the mountain abode of her stepfather, a soldier. The stepfather is a soldier for the Franco regime, which suppresses guerrillas…
Pan’s Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro is an idol to the Latino community and one of the films that kicked off his legend is “Pan’s Labyrinth”. Set in post-Civil War Spain in 1944, “Pan’s Labyrinth” tells the story of Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), a young girl who, along with her pregnant mother, moves to a rural military…
The Shape of Water “The Shape of Water,” directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a journey like no other that seamlessly blends elements of fantasy, romance, and drama. Released in 2017, this enchanting film takes the audience on an extraordinary journey into a world where love transcends barriers, even those as seemingly insurmountable as species.…
The main characters who are invited to a dinner party are completely unprepared due to conflicting appointment times at a friend’s house, or the restaurant they chose as the next best option has a dead body right next to it, so they lose their appetite. At another appointment that we visited the next time, the…