The Bride lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...
The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...
Last November, Guillermo del Toro’s faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic premiered on Netflix to lukewarm critical reception. Nevertheless, 2025’s Frankenstein is nominated for nine ...
What Maggie Gyllenhaal has done in her reimaging of The Bride of Frankenstein is utterly deranged. And thank God. No shade to brilliant director James Whale, whose 1935 Universal sequel The Bride of ...
A goth-punk feminist revival of Mary Shelley refracted through noir fatalism, vaudevillian spectacle, and a lovers-on-the-run romance that echoes the outlaw mythology of Bonnie and Clyde sounds like ...
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein’s Monster (Christian Bale) and a mad scientist (Annette Bening) resurrect a recently deceased woman (Jessie Buckley), who has ties to the Mob — and Mary Shelley. The ...