Jonathan Vacanti sat at his workshop with his tools and patiently scraped away everything that was not a violin. “Violin making is a very old system from the 1500s, so they didn’t have sandpaper, so ...

Del Toro’s second Netflix movie is bolted to the Earth by hands-on production design and crafty period detail. While it may be too reverently faithful to Mary Shelley’s source material to end up as a ...