Frankenstein and his Bride become an undead Bonnie and Clyde in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riot grrl take on the story. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) is dead, but she has ...
"Here comes the motherf***ing bride!" insists a spectral Mary Shelley, the quasi-narrator of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, who lives solely in the conscience of our titular character. Frankenstein's ...
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal is defending the use of sexual violence in her new movie, “The Bride!,” a Frankenstein spin-off that has left critics divided. “I have to say, I felt strongly that the ...
A goth-punk feminist revival of Mary Shelley refracted through noir fatalism, vaudevillian spectacle, and a lovers-on-the-run romance that echoes the outlaw mythology of Bonnie and Clyde sounds like ...
Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...
Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is a captivating movie. Right from its very first moments, this film knows how to hook its viewers, immerse them in its world, and so thoroughly entertain them that ...
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 ...
For all the youngsters who were born after VCRs (one of those '80s gadgets we can't help but love), the joys and pains of using VHS tapes remain an unknown experience. For the rest of us, video ...
Chaves will have shot three films since embarking on his first comic that is being published by Skybound/Image Comics: "It turns out, it is quicker to make movies than it is to make comics." By Borys ...
Twenty Halloweens ago, Tim Burton conjured Corpse Bride, a fantasy fable that spans the world of the living and the land of the dead. Building on the stylings of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which ...