Dave McKean’s MirrorMask (above) and Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth were released within a year of each other. Both are women-in-wonderland tales. Pan’s Labyrinth is about a little girl who flees from her evil Spanish-fascist stepfather into a woodsy fairyland. MirrorMask is about a ‘tween with a dying mom who enters a dream world in ... read more »

Pan’s Labyrinth disappointed me. Not that it’s a bad film, but after reading some of the raves this “fairy tale for adults” has received I was expecting something new and different. Instead, I saw a Guillermo del Toro fantasy that was pretty much like every other Guillermo del Toro movie I have seen (Cronos, Hellboy, ... read more »

Both King and the AWFJ selected Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth as the best film of the year. (Thanks to David W. Hudson at GreenCine Daily for the links.) In 2006, as usual, most of the major media’s best-lists or award nominations honor films that aren’t released until the tail end of the year and ... read more »