Podcast Reviews: Dua Lipa, Guillermo Del Toro and Cillian Murphy Weigh in with Their Best Books

Podcast reviews: Dua Lipa, Guillermo del Toro and Cillian Murphy weigh in with their best books

If you recently saw Guillermo de Toro’s Frankenstein or are simply a fan of Mary Shelley’s novel, seek out Inklings Book Club (Apple, Spotify) where host Jack Edwards interviews the Mexican filmmaker about his take on the monster horror and his own Gothic book recommendations (including an Oscar Wilde pick, for its “reflection of aesthetics and existence and the fleeting breath of life”).

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is visual poetry with Mexican sensitivity

I am what you would call a PG-13 horror fan, and my favorite genre of horror would definitely have to be gothic horror.

FRANKENSTEIN: BY GUILLERO DEL TORO

“I fear you, Victor. I always have. Every ounce of madness and destruction. The very conflagration that devoured everything. It all came from you. You are the monster.” -William Frankenstein. We have seen many tellings of the classic story of Frankenstein. From the black and white beauty of the 1931 Frankenstein or the poor, chaotic disaster that was 2004 Van Helsing. Each director and screenwriter builds their own telling. Del Toro (Pan’s Labyr…

'Frankenstein' Movie Review, Director Guillermo Del Toro Gothic Horror Teaches To Not Be Controlling

Guillermo del Toro directed movie, Frankenstein, is not just a horror movie, but it is more than the genre of gothic romance. The film teaches everyone a lesson of how one should not control anything around, as doing that can create consequences that are totally tragic. Well, Netflix's Frankenstein makes everyone believe in the fact that scientific research is very important if one has to progress. Human sentiments is something that needs unders…