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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After years of talk about Hollywood reimagining The Bride of Frankenstein for the modern age, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is among new 2026 movies out this week, and it’s time to talk about the ...

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.” ...

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 ...

The writer-director also discusses casting Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, and her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal. Mike Miller is the executive editor on the movies team at ...