The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold retelling of Mary Shelley's landmark 1818 novel Frankenstein in a chaotic and gloomy romance set in 1930s Chicago. Christian Bale is Frankenstein's monster Frank ...

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 ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s bold interpretation of The Bride reimagines the classic monster story as an emotional gothic love story. Unlike past adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the central focus ...

Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...

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 ...

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The new Maggie Gyllenhaal film, The Bride!, is set to release in theaters this week. This marks the actress-turned-filmmaker's second directorial effort after The Lost Daughter, which was released in ...

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 ...