My love for Guillermo del Toro is a matter of public record. I am an ardent fan of Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins and Michael Shannon, and agree with the New York Times that Michael Stuhlbarg is criminally underrated. Yet, The shape of water, directed by Del Toro and starring all of the great actors above, …
Jane Eyre
I love the sprawling, poetic nature of great English literature. I love Mia Wasikowska. (And don’t tell anyone, but I am a romantic at heart. Wuthering Heights, by the other Brontë,tore me up for days. Shush.) Rotten Tomatoes, my trusted benchmark, also summarises the film as follows: “Cary Fukunaga directs a fiery and elegant adaptation, …