The writer-director also explains the offbeat 1930s setting of her 'Bride of Frankenstein' riff, which hits theaters in March. Reading time 4 minutes Last year, creature-feature fans got a lavishly ...

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold retelling of Mary Shelley's landmark 1818 novel Frankenstein in a chaotic and gloomy romance set in 1930s Chicago. Christian Bale is Frankenstein's monster Frank ...

“The Bride!” opens somewhere unknowable — a vignetted dark space in which the specter of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) feels like she’s lit by her own unquenchable desire for mischief, and a version ...

If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...

The Bride! arrives this week, and the delay in its release—it was originally slated for fall 2025—makes perfect sense. That’s not just because the shift put distance between Guillermo del Toro’s ...

The first official images of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s highly anticipated take on a classic monster story, The Bride, have been revealed, offering a striking look at a punk-rock reimagining of the Bride of ...