Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is a captivating movie. Right from its very first moments, this film knows how to hook its viewers, immerse them in its world, and so thoroughly entertain them that ...

If there is one thing that can be said about The Bride!, it is that no one can accuse Maggie Gyllenhaal of not swinging for the fences. Gyllenhaal’s second directorial feature after her acclaimed 2021 ...

The Bride of Frankenstein lives for only five minutes or so of her 1935 movie. She never speaks a word. A hiss. A scream. And, with that, her creators recognise her abhorrence and snuff out instantly ...

Alongside such literary icons as Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, and James Bond, one of the most oft-adapted characters for live-action (and otherwise) is the anatomical monstrosity simply known as ...

On March 15, Jessie Buckley almost surely will be presented with the Academy Award for Best Actress for her terrific performance in last year’s “Hamnet.” ‘Hamnet’ review: ‘Nomadland’ director Chloé ...

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 ...

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 ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...