T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to “The Lost Daughter” is an incomprehensible movie mash-up.
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.
The film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who is murdered and then brought back to life as the companion of Frankenstein's monster.
Maggie Gyllenhaal had earned a little currency as a filmmaker and wanted to make something big. Something epic. Something honest. Something that wouldn’t just hit a vein, as she’d done with her first ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.
Gyllenhaal, who made her directorial debut ‌with 2021's "The Lost Daughter," watched the 1935 movie, inspired by Mary Shelley's Gothic novel "Frankenstein", in which actor Elsa Lanchester appears as ...
A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises". If you were a powerless woman in 1936 Chicago killed by ...
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 ...