Shape of Water: Love Letter to Cinema from Del Toro

My movies before were sort of re-phrasings of my childhood mythology. This is the first time I speak as an adult, about our identity, otherness, sex, what it is to love, these are adult concerns–Guillermo del Toro.

Oscar 2018: Best Director–Predictions

Oscar 2018: Diversity in the Best Director race? Will it include a black director? a woman? Unlike the Best Picture category, which can have up to 10 films, there are only 5 slots in the Best Director.

Pose: Ryan Murphy’s New Musical Drama Series Starring Transgender Actors

Along with being a dance musical and an affirming look at American life in the 1980s, I’m so proud that Pose and FX has made history right from the beginning by featuring the most transgender regular actors ever in an American television production–Ryan Murphy

Oscar 2018: Best Adapted Screenplay–Predictions

Oscar 2018: I have divided the Best Adapted Screenplay category into two subgroups: frontrunners and contenders.

Downsizing (2017): Payne’s Incoherent, Disappointing Film

Payne’s latest film, Downsizing, starring Matt Damon in one of his weakest performances, is the director’s first incoherent film, an overlong tale, overstuffed with ideas.