Willem Dafoe Can’t Stop Grinning And It’s Not Just About ‘Nightmare Alley’ [Interview]

Guillermo del Toro has been directing movies since 1986 with his first short film Doña Lupe. Many were familiar with his horror films in the 1990s but it wasn’t until 2006 Pan’s Labyrinth that made him a household name. 

Jon Burlingame editorIt isn’t often that a film composer consults with the star of the movie about his theme. But it happened on “Nightmare Alley,” as Bradley Cooper attended some of the recording sessions for Guillermo del Toro’s spooky noir film.“We did the piano sessions in L.A., on an old Motown Steinway,” says composer Nathan Johnson (“Knives Out”).

bad bad guys to make it into our beloved superhero films and shows in the past two decades.So when the really great ones get a second curtain call like Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” it doesn’t take long for the internet to spark into debate on who ultimately rules the world of evil.That iteration of Norman Osborn was posed on Twitter against the likes of fellow MCU master of terror Thanos (Josh Brolin) and DC’s Bane (Tom Hardy) as to which of the three reign as

Since his 1993 debut “Cronos,” it’s always been explicit that Guillermo del Toro is a genre filmmaker at heart. Over the years, the director has tackled several different kinds of horror films.

Lady Gaga can’t recommend Bradley Cooper‘s new movie enough.

NEW YORK -- With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype.If “Nightmare Alley” is del Toro’s lushly composed love letter to noir, the movie’s pulpy heart is in Blanchett’s conniving psychiatrist Lilith Ritter.

What a world! Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård played an unhappily married couple on Big Little Lies, and now, they’re playing mother and son.

The action-packed new trailer for “The Northman” has been released.

The Northman, starring Björk, Anya Taylor-Joy, Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman, has been released.The third film from the filmmaker, whose past films were The Witch and The Lighthouse, follows Skarsgård’s viking prince Amleth, who embarks on a vengeful mission to defeat Claes Bang’s villainous Fjölnir in 10th Century Iceland.The Lighthouse‘s Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke also star in the film.

Jordan Moreau Robert Eggers, the director behind “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” has released the first trailer for his latest movie, “The Northman,” starring Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke and Björk.The film takes place in Iceland during the 10th century and follows a viking prince named Amleth, played by Skarsgard, who goes on a quest for vengeance after his father, King Horvendill (Hawke), is murdered.

Outside of Ari Aster, nobody does horror cinema better right now than Robert Eggers. So, take notice, horror fans: “The Northman,” Eggers’ latest film since 2019’s “The Lighthouse,” hits theaters next April.

The debut trailer for The Northman has just arrived online and is highlighting the film’s star-studded cast.

After the release of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Leonardo DiCaprio was reportedly offered quite a few films. Obviously.

Guillermo Del Toro is not as prolific as some of his peers when it comes to feature films, but it’s still somewhat surprising it’s taken this long for him to work with Cate Blanchett. They both had their breakthrough moments in the mid-to-late-1990s and Blanchett could have easily stepped into the worlds of any “Hellboy” movie, “The Shape of Water,” or “Crimson Peak” without a second glance.

“Nightmare Alley,” Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name (made once before in 1947 by British filmmaker Edmund Goulding) wasn’t exactly the smoothest.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” opens this weekend, and everyone is very excited about the return of some fan-favorite villains to the franchise (including Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin). Just as exciting, though, are the characters from this cycle of “Spider-Man” movies like Tom Holland, Zendaya and, of course, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” releases this week, and there is already a heap of reviews out in the wild (read ours here). While we’ll be holding off on significant spoilers here, it’s certainly interesting to learn that things didn’t go as planned concerning the returning villains being part of the sequel’s marketing materials.