There’s a new Frankenstein in town and she’s a lot. Feeling dizzy after watching Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale’s new film The Bride!, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal? Morbidly curious and looking to ...

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 ...

Tim Burton has done it again. In a time when glossy CGI dominates the film industry, this visionary director has given us a blast from the past — claymation — without making it seem anachronistic or ...

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 ...

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

A doctor uses an initial instead of her first name when publishing academic papers, in order to conceal her gender and be taken seriously as a scientist. A woman who works as the secretary to a male ...

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 ...

Fever Ray has shared a pair of songs they contributed to The Bride!, a new spin on The Bride of Frankenstein directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Listen to “The Lake” and “Wrong Flower” in the playlist ...

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 ...

A 2005 marriage between a pregnant 14-year-old and a 22-year-old man prompted Kansas to establish a minimum marriage age. Prior to 2006, Kansas had no minimum marriage age as long as there was ...