Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in The Bride! Film Critic From our 21st-century perch, most contemporary women have no trouble believing that the great women writers of the 19th century got a raw ...

The Bride! arrives this week, and the delay in its release—it was originally slated for fall 2025—makes perfect sense. That’s not just because the shift put distance between Guillermo del Toro’s ...

He’s a reanimated corpse, cursed to wander the land in a state of existential misery for centuries! She’s a former moll for a two-bit gangster, brought back from the dead to become his soulmate! You ...

Over two hundred years after Mary Shelley’s novel, the idea of the “Bride of Frankenstein” largely remains a piece of lore that has gone untapped. This is due primarily to James Whale’s 1935 film and ...

"Here comes the motherf***ing bride!" insists a spectral Mary Shelley, the quasi-narrator of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, who lives solely in the conscience of our titular character. Frankenstein's ...

The Bride! star Christian Bale thought he had read the wrong script because he couldn't believe a script this "risky" wasn't a low budget indie.

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.” ...

If they had, they likely wouldn’t have known how to handle themselves around the whirlwind of Jessie Buckley’s constantly in-motion character, who adopts several different personas throughout the ...

We're discussing minor spoilers for "The Bride!" Beware if you want to go in totally cold. More than 50 years ago, a lumbering Peter Boyle did a little soft-shoe to “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in Mel Brooks ...