Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! arrives with a fascinating premise, a striking visual style, and a cast filled with powerhouse performers. Inspired by the lega ...
By JAKE COYLE 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 ...
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, ...
“Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, bold, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of Frankenstein.
For this story to work Frankenstein (Christian Bale) needed to be the Bride's equal, not a sniveling boy-man. Gyllenhaal was ...
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, ...
The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life ...
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