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Staff Selects: Guillermo del Toro

In celebration of Guillermo del Toro’s birthday and in keeping with the horror theme for the month, we’ve put together a Staff Selects about a few of his films. Cronos With Cronos, his debut film, Guillermo del Toro was already beginning to show many of the tendencies he would lean into later in his career.…

Dolemite is My Name

Blaxploitation is a subgenre that took prominence in the 1970s. There was a wave of black filmmakers and actors scraping together all of their resources to make films that they wanted to make, and if they got lucky, people would get to see it. Blaxploitation didn’t get very far from its original years at the…