UK website Edge has posted an interview with Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, pictured above (on the left). They call him a "wildly talented Mexican", which sounds a little odd to my ear. Maybe it's just a British thing, like how they spell "colour" when del Toro has clearly said "color". They probably also have a scantily clad woman on the third page of their online articles.

The interview demonstrates that the wildly talented Mexican knows his games. There aren't many movie directors who can talk videogames with this sort of facility. But he seems a little bearish on the games-as-art front when he estimates that in the next ten years, videogames will produce "a couple of narrative masterpieces". Only a couple? I'll go on record as saying we can probably expect two narrative masterpieces a year from here on out. At least!

Unfortunately, it's a bit of a puff piece (consider Variety's recent talk with Gore Verbinski about BioShock, in which Verbinski knows enough about the game to bring up The Manchurian Candidate). But for whatever reason – either it's beyond del Toro's ken or it didn't occur to Edge to go in depth – there's not much substance in this interview, which is content to just name drop and move on. For instance, when del Toro mentions the "cinematography" in BioShock, I want to hear more about what he means. That's rarely a term used when talking about videogames, and it would be interesting to hear why he uses the word.

The wildly talented Mexican is keen on the Team Ico games, Shadow of the Colossus and Ico; he's not into Sonic or Kirby. He brings up Silent Hill and how it reminded him of Roman Polanski and David Lynch, but then he includes George Romero. George Romero? And Silent Hill? Excuse me, my monocle seems to have rolled under the refrigerator.