fairy tale
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is amongst his finer recent films as a well as being one of the more standout adaptations of the classic fairy tale.
Allow yourself to be transported by the sights and sounds of The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs and be rewarded with a powerful cinematic experience.
The Wolf House uses stop-motion animation to render the world inside the titular house as an ever-evolving nightmare, and is completely immersive despite its freakiness.
Tigers Are Not Afraid is a standout film beneath the phantasmagorical flourishes is a story that is all too grounded in reality.
I love Joe Wright and while I was not overly interested in yet another version of the Peter Pan story, I was excited to see him take on Pan. But the very fact that it spent many more years in production than it probably should have, and the idea of Wright as a CGI movie director did make me uneasy. It turns out that I was right to feel that way, because while it must have been difficult to reinvigorate the Peter Pan story, the problematic production of Pan meant that this version of the story was always going to be something of a bust.