Watching the coolly ironic documentary Full Battle Rattle, one’s heart goes out to Lieutenant Colonel Robert McLaughlin as he sits in a daze in front of his desert headquarters, having seen most of his battalion slaughtered the night before by [...]

The temptation is to remark that if Hellboy was the appetizer, then Hellboy II: The Golden Army is the main course. To an extent, that's true. The second film is more assured, better paced, and has a stronger emotional component. It takes chances, ...

When people say that comic books are as close as our secular late-capitalist culture gets to having its own mythology, it's not generally meant as a...

Guillermo del Toro serves up another witchy brew of ghouls, guns and gizmos as his demon-hero Hellboy (Ron Perlman) endures both a media backlash and a relationship wobble with his pyrotechnic sweetheart Liz (Selma Blair).

Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II is the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since his Pan's Labyrinth netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007.

In Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his Hellboy (2004), the big red guy (Ron Perlman) tries to thwart a renegade elfin prince (Luke Goss) who plans to violate a long-standing truce with mankind by resurrecting a dormant army of gigantic metal warriors. Del Toro’s previous film, the complex, visually arresting Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), demonstrated his […]

Guillermo del Toro's film is how big special-effects movies shouldbe but rarely are.

Will Smith's Hancock wasn't the first superhero with bad habits and a bad attitude. Hellboy, the protagonist of "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," has a bit of the devil in him: His skin is red; he has two shorn-off horns on his head, a gargantuan club fist and a long, slippery tail.