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Newest adaptation of The Witches loses the magic

My initial reaction to seeing that Robert Zemeckis, director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump, had made a remake of The Witches ultimately was: why? To preface this question/outrage I would like to confess my deep-rooted love for the original Nicolas Roeg’s The Witches, a film that stirred within me an irrational fear […]

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The Shape of Water

In the opening sequence of The Shape of Water, we are told that we are about to embark on “a tale of love and loss, and the monster who tried to destroy it all”. Indeed, what Guillermo del Toro gives us in The Shape of Water is a stock tale of star-crossed lovers and evil […]