With the release of “The Bride!” we asked scholars, film curators and experts in Mary Shelley’s work why so few women have tackled the Frankenstein story — and the impact that has on how we make sense ...

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 ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride subverts expectations with its conclusion to Bride and Frankenstein's gothic love story.

A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises".

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work ...

Seeing the Wild Rose and Oscar-award-winning star go bravura and unhinged to portray a radical new vision of Frankenstein’s spouse isn’t the first time queerness and the Bride of Frankenstein have ...

(Photos © Screen Archives/Getty Images; Warner Bros.) The Frankenstein creative universe spans across centuries since the ...

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 it’s alive, writes Jake Coyle in ...

So my skepticism was high when I saw The Bride! on the big screen. The exclamation point isn’t the only thing that sets this ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how smart she and her movie truly are.

The Bride! was born out of a fantasy. "I'm not speaking for Mary Shelley," its writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal recently ...

From Guillermo del Toro’s latest Hollywood blockbuster to the Hotel Transylvania franchise, Frankenstein’s monster is never far from the public eye. Although the creature first appeared in Mary ...