Sam Barsanti has written about pop-culture for 10 years, and his work has appeared at The A.V. Club, Primetimer, IGN, and Collider. He has also contributed to the popular daily Hustle newsletter, ...

Here comes "The Bride!", Maggie Gyllenhaal's extremely messy, extremely inventive film that dares you to try to neatly fit it into one genre. It's a sort-of-musical, meta-sequel-reboot, comedy, love ...

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 ...

In an era of cinema often defined by safe reboots and sterile franchises, Maggie Gyllenhaal has delivered a jagged, neon-soaked lightning bolt to the heart of the zeitgeist. The Bride! isn’t just a ...

The Bride doesn't shy away from depicting intense sexual violence — and writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal says that the discomfort of assault is an important aspect of her vision. The filmmaker's ...

The Bride of Frankenstein lives for only five minutes or so of her 1935 movie. She never speaks a word. A hiss. A scream. And, with that, her creators recognise her abhorrence and snuff out instantly ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

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 ...