There’s one Universal Monster movie that remains strangely forgotten even by that niche’s doting community of cinephiles, despite the fact that—unlike many of the zero-budget, public domain Dracula ...

If there were a checklist of things female characters are supposed to do in order to be "empowered," The Bride! ticks them all. And yet.

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal reinvents a classic monster story in ‘The Bride!’ but sewing together different genres like body parts doesn’t always work. ‘The Bride!’ is a lot. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second ...