In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...

A selection of film buffs have branded Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest project as 'one of the absolute worst movies' they have had to watch - and not even leading actress Jessie Buckley can save it. The ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...

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 ...

What is 'The Bride!' about? “The Bride!” is based on the character of The Bride of Frankenstein, a character that first appeared in Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel. The story has been a prevalent one in ...

Ahead of its release, the new creature feature The Bride! had already been generating some controversy. With this in mind, it's perhaps no surprise that the film has garnered a divisive response from ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Her screaming, resuscitated corpse is brought back into 1930s Chicago to right, what Gyllenhaal would argue, is a cinematic wrong.

A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises". If you were a powerless woman in 1936 Chicago killed by ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” hits theaters this weekend, another take on the Frankenstein story that’s more about other Frankenstein movies than the original text itself. “Bride of Frankenstein” ...

Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, conspicuously tailor-made to align with Warner Bros.' neighboring DC properties ...