Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jessie Buckley stars as the title character in "The Bride!," Maggie Gyllenhaal's irreverent take on 1935's "Bride of Frankenstein.

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, ...

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 ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is a captivating movie. Right from its very first moments, this film knows how to hook its viewers, immerse them in its world, and so thoroughly entertain them that ...

It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a movie that, to me, ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...

The Bride lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...

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.” ...

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 ...

One of the biggest surprises about Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is just how fun it is. In some ways, it feels like comfort food filmmaking. I wondered how self-serious the movie would be, and the answer ...

There are more movies based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” than nearly any other story ever published. But something’s missing from a lot of them. Most “Frankenstein” movies have a mad scientist, ...