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The frankensteined feminism of the bride!

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her ...
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Pitched as a sequel to the novel Frankenstein by its onscreen author Mary Shelley, The Bride! is a riotous story about the monster and his corpse bride on a road trip to visit cities, watch films and ...
Small Prophets creator Mackenzie Crook teams up with animation directors Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson to take DQ inside the stop-motion process behind the BBC series, working with puppets and ...
Feel the feminine rage with 10 women-led creature features like Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!
Image Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures By Luis Zonenberg It seems that Halloween has arrived early yet again, with actress Maggie Gyllenhaal returning to the director’s chair with her latest film, ...
There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When ...
This year’s potential backlash victim, Jessie Buckley of “Hamnet,” is a different story. In Gascon’s case, the backlash was ...
"It’s easy to see director Maggie Gyllenhaal is an old movie buff," Bruce Miller writes. "In her latest, 'The Bride!,' she references movies from the 1930s, 'Bonnie and Clyde' and, of course, 'The ...
Keke Palmer playfully chastised Ryan Seacrest during her guest judging stint on American Idol after he showed archive footage of her 2003 audition for the spinoff series American Juniors.
From her quiet emotion in War & Peace to her compelling physicality in Hamnet, the Irish actor has shown her talent runs deep ...
At the Neue Galerie, a show suggests that the artist’s raw, contorted depictions of the body were influenced by a formative ...