The feature debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a magnificent mix of fantasy and horror, an alchemic twist on vampire lore and the costs of eternal life.
Tag: Ron Perlman
‘Drive’ – Ryan Gosling’s getaway on Peacock
Sleek pulp crime cool meets arthouse style thriller in Drive (2011, R) starring Ryan Gosling as a taciturn getaway driver. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (a veteran of gritty, brutal Danish underworld dramas) with a silky smoothness and a stylized cool that recalls Le Samourai and Walter Hill’s The Driver, and an eighties vibe and […]
‘Hellboy’ – A demon of a superhero free on Hoopla
Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mike Mignola’s cult comic stars a perfect Ron Perlman as the cigar-puffing, wisecracking, kitten-loving demon who covertly battles supernatural monsters.
TV’s original ‘Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series’ on Paramount+
TV crime show and romantic fantasy meet as urban mythology in the original modern TV fairy tale starring Linda Hamilton as a beautiful crusading lawyer and Ron Perlman as a tender-hearted man-beast.
‘The City of Lost Children’ – a fairy tale for adults on Amazon Prime
The fantastic visions of Belgian filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet culminated in The City of Lost Children (France, 1995), fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. In this rough port town lives circus […]
What to watch the week of Friday, September 4
Hand of God, starring Ron Perlman as a corrupt judge who starts to believe he’s receiving instructions from God as he searches for the man who raped his daughter, joins the growing slate of Amazon Original Series. The series co-stars Dana Delany as his wife and Garret Dillahunt as an ex-con eager for redemption who […]
The complete ‘Sons of Anarchy’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video
is now available to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu Plus subscribers alike. Sons of Anarchy, the FX drama of family ties, brotherhood, loyalty, betrayal, and honor in an outlaw motorcycle gang that practically runs the (fictional) Central California desert town of Charming. grew from cult show to surprise hit over the course of its seven […]