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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the end of Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein’s monster yearned for companionship, begging his master to create him not just a ...

Actress-turned-director Maggie Gyllenhaal has reimagined Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” as a new film with the Bride as the central character. So it’s fitting that "The Bride!" hits theaters ...

In “The Bride!” Maggie Gyllenhaal fails to breathe new life into a classic source material. Landing in theaters March 6, actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore directorial project trips ...

Official image from ‘The Bride!’ courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. The Bride of Frankenstein is a classic, feminine twist on the original story of Frankenstein, which has been consistently alluded to ...

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 ...

No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...