Oops! We uploaded the wrong audio file this morning! To those of you who thought we recorded “an avant-garde art piece”: we apologize. We’ve since fixed it and this new version should make a little more sense. Anyway…

Guillermo del Toro’s devastating mash-up of children caught in the brutality of a Spanish Civil War-period thriller with the high-concept visuals of a supernatural presence has all of the hallmarks of a… Guillermo del Toro movie.  Well, two of his movies, I guess.  But the point is that few can use fantasy to probe at the still fresh wounds of societal trauma as well as he can.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Byrne’s True Stories (1986).