On Friday, April 17th, I had the pleasure of seeing a phenomenal show at the Warner (specifically the Nancy Marine Studio ...

No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...

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 ...

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 ...

With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on “Bride of Frankenstein”: what if “the Joker” was “brat”? (To borrow Charli XCX’s ...

The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...

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.” ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...

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 ...

Christian Bale as Frank and Jessie Buckley as The Bride in Warner Bros. Pictures "The Bride!" With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish ...

This image released by Warner Bros Entertainment shows Christian Bale, left, and Jessie Buckley in a scene from "The Bride!" (Warner Bros Entertainment via AP) Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a ...

If there is one thing that can be said about The Bride!, it is that no one can accuse Maggie Gyllenhaal of not swinging for the fences. Gyllenhaal’s second directorial feature after her acclaimed 2021 ...