Editor’s Note: Vanyaland film editor Nick Johnston is back in Canada this week covering the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. And as usual, we wish we were up there with him! Check out our continuing 2025 coverage, get rolling with our official curtain-raiser, and revisit the complete Vanyaland coverage archives from past TIFF editions. In retrospect, it looks like the worst thing that ever happened to Guillermo del Toro’s filmmaking career was The Shape of Water, though I imagine he’d argue that it was At the Mountains of … Continue reading TIFF50 Review: del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ doesn’t have much of a pulse