Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore outing, “The Bride!” opens in the shadowy afterlife of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, played by recent Oscar-winner Jesse Buckley, who is quite bitter about the way ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 26: (L-R) Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Hough, Penélope Cruz, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale and Peter Sarsgaard attend "The Bride!" World Premiere at ...

Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal proves with her second film, "The Bride!", that not all ideas should be brought to life.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how ...

Feminine rage, in all its messy, uncomfortable glory, takes centre stage in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s genre-stitched reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein, starring Jessie Buckley and ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Maggie Gyllenhaal was fascinated with how the 1935 film “The Bride of Frankenstein” featured the bride in only the last two minutes and gave her no lines. That meant there ...

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 ...

The most impressive thing about The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist revamp of The Bride of Frankenstein, is how thoroughly ill-conceived it is. This movie fails at everything. There is not a ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions. By Robert Ito For Maggie Gyllenhaal, the director, writer, and ...