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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frankenstein and his Bride become an undead Bonnie and Clyde in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riot grrl take on the story. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) is dead, but she has ...

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 I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

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 I'll say this for it: It's alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

It's taken almost a century to truly bring the Bride of Frankenstein back to the big screen with The Bride!. Unless you count Helena Bonham Carter stumbling around engulfed in flames in the 1990s or ...

It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...

Through all of its muddled schlock, Gyllenhaal’s film never once loses its distinctly feminine ambition, and that makes “The Bride!” a far more faithful “Frankenstein” adaptation than any made by a ...

With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on “Bride of Frankenstein”: what if “the Joker” was “brat”? (To borrow Charli XCX’s ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with Frankenstein riff The Bride! hitting theaters, let’s revisit 1935’s subtextually queer horror classic Bride ...