The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the earth until it towers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bursting at your neck staples to see Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the undead lovers? The new movie The Bride! is already ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

If they had, they likely wouldn’t have known how to handle themselves around the whirlwind of Jessie Buckley’s constantly in-motion character, who adopts several different personas throughout the ...

There are more movies based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” than nearly any other story ever published. But something’s missing from a lot of them. Most “Frankenstein” movies have a mad scientist, ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions. By Robert Ito For Maggie Gyllenhaal, the director, writer, and ...

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 ...