‘Lisa Frankenstein’ gets quiet opening day behind ‘Argylle’

[ad_1] Unfortunately he is not alive. “Lisa Frankenstein” faces a quiet opening at the domestic box office after grossing $1.7 million in 3,144 theaters on its opening day, including $700,000 in Thursday previews. Focus Features’ release will likely fall behind the second frame of Apple Studios’ “Argylle,” which flopped in its debut last weekend. “Lisa … Read more

‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Review: When Mom Finds Out, You’re So Dead

[ad_1] Since Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” at age 19, it has functioned as a remarkably versatile Rorschach test, prescient in ways its author could hardly have anticipated. It is usually interpreted as a story about arrogance, about man playing God and reaping the consequences. But you can just as easily read it as a lucid … Read more