Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are all the hallmarks of the darkly romantic genre: gorgeous, decrepit buildings, strikes of lightning, ghostly possessions, ...

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal reinvents a classic monster story in ‘The Bride!’ but sewing together different genres like body parts doesn’t always work. ‘The Bride!’ is a lot. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second ...

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Alongside such literary icons as Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, and James Bond, one of the most oft-adapted characters for live-action (and otherwise) is the anatomical monstrosity simply known as ...

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 ...

The Bride! is set to hit theaters this weekend, but there’s a micro controversy brewing online. Namely, men reviewing the movie have been crushing The Bride! in their early takes on this film.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...