Movies and Tea

Welcome to our seasonal "Shark Week" episode as after we had so much fun with "The Meg" last season why not look at a shark movie every season. On this episode we revisit the 90's classic "Deep Blue Sea" as a team of scientists find themselves stuck in a rapidly deteriating underwater facility while surrounded by super inteligent sharks!! We question what it is about this film which made it such a cult classic, Samuel L. Jackson's favourite death scene and how much of the film did the sharks actually plan plus much more!!

On this episode we dive into this most unlikely of romances aswell as Del Toro's most explicit film to date, to find out how he made us all believe in his vision, question the obsession with green aswell as what the intended black and white cut of the film could have offered. We also wrap up the season revealing our favourite, most hated aswell as the hidden gems of Del Toro's filmography.

Having established his "Eye Protein" style while crafting love letters to giant monsters and the things which go bump in the night with "Crimson Peak" his intrest turned to the classic Hammer Horror films while drawing further inspiration from the likes of "House on Haunted Hill" and "The Shinning" to craft a Gothic love story hidden under the geise of a ghost story. Released to middling fanfare the film remains much like his early films somthing of an underdissed entry in his filmography....until now.

Having gained both Critical acclaim and mainstream recognition for "Pan's Labyrinth" Del Toro would suprisingly enter into a period of development hell as projects fell through or failed to find studio backing. However out of this period would come his love letter to Kaiju cinema and giant monsters with "Pacific Rim".

Following on from the sucess on "Blade 2" and "Hellboy" Del Toro choose to continue his Spanish Civil war trilogy that he had begun with "The Devil's Backbone" inturn crafting the film which finally made him a recognisable name to mainstream movie goers. Here blending genres to powerful effect while also creating some of his memorable imagery.

Elwood and Kim are joined by Bubbawheat (Flights, Tights and Movie Nights) to discuss Guillermo Del Toro's take on Hellboy.

Despite failing to make an impact on the Hollywood system with “Mimic” Del Toro’s work as a director was certainly getting him noticed with his Spanish language films Cronos and The Devil’s Backbone both finding their fans including producer Peter Frankfurt and writer David S. Goyer who invited Del Toro to work on Blade 2 after Stephen Norrington turned down the opportunity to direct the sequel. Now without the meddling of the Weinsteins, Del toro was finally free to bring his visual style to the Hollywood but was he capable of producing a film which would appeal to a more mainstream audience? On this episode we are joined by D.J. Valentine (Simplistic Reviews) to rank action heroes, talk comic books and the hunt for a decent video game movie plus much more!!

After a less than sucessful first experience with the Hollywood studio system, Del Toro returned to his roots with "The Devil's Backbone" a unique ghost story set against the backdrop of the Spanish civil war which would become one of his favourite films. We are joined on this episode by Greg (Debatable / Action A Go Go).

Having announced himself as an exciting new voice in horror with “Cronos” Del Toro chose to follow it with his first English language feature “Mimic” based on the Donald A. Wollheim short story as Del Toro brought to the screen a tale of shape shifting bugs living in the New York system in a production hampered by the interference of producer Harvey Weinstein leaving Del Toro with a film he was unhappy with until his directors cut finally saw the light of day in 2011.