Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore outing, “The Bride!” opens in the shadowy afterlife of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, played by recent Oscar-winner Jesse Buckley, who is quite bitter about the way ...

Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

With just $13.5 million globally against an $80 million production budget, Maggie Gyllenhaal's film is shaping up to be one of the bigger flops of 2026. For Warner Bros., it ends a streak of nine ...

It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. Set in the 1930s, “The Bride!” follows a very lonely Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and his undead love interest (Jessie Buckley) as ...

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With a few minutes on screen and no dialogue, the Bride leaves a lot off the table, something that inspired The Bride! director Maggie Gyllenhaal when she watched the film and tore through Shelley's ...

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 ...

“She finds herself in such an insane situation,” Gyllenhaal said in a press conference promoting the film. “Having been brought back from the dead without her consent to be the wife of someone that ...

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 ...

About the time Christian Bale’s Frankenstein and Jessie Buckley’s Bride crash an A-list party in 1930s New York and jump-start a full-on musical number set to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” it is clear that ...