Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws with boldness. Here's our review.
In Shelley’s novel, Dr. Frankenstein, suffering some tardy pangs of conscience, and eager to get rid of the problem he created, agrees to make his monster a mate if it means they disappear together.
That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill ...
She doesn't miss a single detail!
As the film unfolds, she becomes empowered and inspires other women, who adopt her facial black mark and black lips, to follow suit. A cultural movement is born as they fight back. Meanwhile Frank’s ...
At the Neue Galerie, a show suggests that the artist’s raw, contorted depictions of the body were influenced by a formative ...
Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star as the Bride and Frankenstein's monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's remake of The Bride of Frankenstein.
T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...
Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.
Just as much as I am a fan of Tim Burton's films, I am equally enthusiastic about his longtime partner in crime. No I don't mean Johnny Depp, but Danny Elfman, the composer for almost all of Burton's ...