Pinocchio review – Guillermo del Toro’s dark, sombre riff on the Disney-sweet fairytale
The wooden puppet-boy turns fascist in a Mussolini-era, fantasy-horror rework of the classic tale
October 2022
The Last Victim review – modern dimestore western is Mo’ Country for Old Men
Ali Larter is the only bright spot of this western noir that seems familiar right down to the cod Cormac McCarthy voiceover
June 2020
Hellboy actor Ron Perlman challenges Ted Cruz to $50,000 charity wrestling bout
Challenge to Republican senator came after tangled Twitter spat, as Perlman offers to donate money to Black Lives Matter
December 2016
G2 quiz of 2016
Lost in showbiz: Marina Hyde's 2016 quiz
Think you know your Ketterings from your Kardashians? Test your knowledge of this year’s important celebrity stories
May 2016
Mike Mignola: Why I'm ending Hellboy to go paint watercolors instead
As the final Hellboy comic is published, Mike Mignola discusses how he started, how Hollywood didn’t kill his creation and why he is embracing ‘blur and mush’
September 2015
Brian Moylan's having an episode
Hand of God: Amazon's hands-off approach creates an unholy mess
Drugs, sex and murder don’t make the edgy show Amazon are banking on: instead it’s muddled, maudlin and completely over the top
TV and radio blog
Hand of God: Ron Perlman wrestles with morality and religion in Amazon’s new drama
The star of Hellboy takes a leap of faith with his new drama, in which a deeply troubled small-town judge turns to a particularly unhinged form of spirituality
Stream on
New on Amazon in September: Hand of God, Up, Toy Story 1-3
The first season of the religious fanatic drama lands on the streaming site as well as a number of lighthearted, much-loved animated films from Pixar
July 2013
Ron Perlman on Pacific Rim: 'It's not like Hellboy'
He has one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood – so why has the Pacific Rim star spent so much of his career hiding behind prosthetics? And why is that all changing now?
January 2011
Season of the Witch – review
Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman play 14th-century knights in a film that is entertaining in a cheerfully ridiculous way. By Peter Bradshaw
August 2008
Hellboy II: It's quite devilishly good
It's like a canny cross between Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, X-Men and Men in Black
April 2008
Cable girl
Cable girl: Ron Perlman stole my heart
The noble hero of 1980s show Beauty and the Beast has left womankind wanting ever since
August 2004
Hellboy
Peter Bradshaw: Guilty pleasures are rarely more pleasurable than this. Hellboy! The name itself is just so inspirationally silly
