Fast forward to 2026. Earlier this year, Guillermo del Toro gave us Frankenstein, which was a set design masterpiece. And now Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride has just hit the silver screens. A two- hour ...

The Bride only shows up at the end of ‘The Bride of Frankenstein‘, but she still ends up being the character people remember most. Sure, she gets less than five minutes on screen, yet the feminism ...

Verdict: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" reimagines Bride of Frankenstein as a gothic romance about identity, agency and love. Set in 1930s Chicago, it follows resurrected Ida and lonely Frank in a ...

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her ...

"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 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 ...

Jessie Buckley is currently blazing a Best Actress streak all the way to the Oscars for her transcendent turn in Hamnet. She's such an astonishing actress that I'd pay to watch her in anything… even ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a riot grrrl manifesto comedy. Actress and wannabe cineaste Maggie Gyllenhaal confuses her feminist motivation with artistic creativity. In her script and direction of the ...

Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was the first female monster to appear on screen, in the 1935 Frankenstein sequel: The Bride of Frankenstein. An unruly and rebellious figure ...