Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal proves with her second film, "The Bride!", that not all ideas should be brought to life.

Some folks aren't exactly vibing with her chain-smoking, gunslinging take on Frankenstein.

Eilidh Stewart considers the latest Hollywood offering to female empowerment that is dividing audiences The Bride!

He’s a reanimated corpse, cursed to wander the land in a state of existential misery for centuries! She’s a former moll for a two-bit gangster, brought back from the dead to become his soulmate! You ...

Over two hundred years after Mary Shelley’s novel, the idea of the “Bride of Frankenstein” largely remains a piece of lore that has gone untapped. This is due primarily to James Whale’s 1935 film and ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on The Bride of Frankenstein officially comes alive among a slew of new 2026 movie releases coming to theaters this weekend. If you’ve been wondering whether The Bride! is a ...

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.

It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...