Bret Easton Ellis’s murderous banker has morphed from a satire of 1980s Wall Street culture into an hero for the very workers ...
Shrek has always been described as an adult animated movie, and many subtle and not-so-subtle hints support this claim. There’s a ton of parody ”hidden” inside it, and there’s even a scene where lord ...
This article was originally published September 4, 2019 and has been updated to include additional movies. America can only claim a few art forms as its own. Jazz, for sure. Comic books, certainly. It ...
Like witches, vampires, and zombies, ghosts can be scary as hell. But there is something about the stories of lingering dead spirits that can be both awe-inspiring and spooky at once. The often ...
Frankenstein received a limited release in theaters starting on October 17 followed by a Netflix release on November 7. Stories about generational trauma are nothing new – chronicles of the pain that ...
It’s difficult to say what’s more surprising: that one of the leading surgeons in Chicago from the 1900s through the 1940s was named Victor Frankenstein, or that after Victor Frankenstein was born in ...
A wildly arresting performance from Buckley is not enough to save this generic and uninspired adaptation Tim Robey has been one of the Telegraph's film critics since 2000. Rarely seen in daylight, ...
In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...
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 ...
As a genre, fantasy is often associated with a sense of optimism, taking place in a realm of the unreal where normal governing laws don’t apply. However, many fantasy films and TV series have opted to ...
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 ...