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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Description: [School of Movies 2018]
The second film is even better than the first. This time del Toro draws Hellboy deeper into his own world and away from the Mignola comics. And what we get is rich and nourishing, painted in beautiful red, black and gold.
I begin with a hopefully compelling positioning of Hellboy II as being more like movies from Marvel's Phase 3 than the movies of Phase 1 were.Â
We go on to discuss every aspect of this underseen dark fantasy classic, most likely the last time we will see Perlman as Big Red w...