Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

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

The lack of a rich, fully articulate origin text for the Bride, not to mention how imperfect and compromised her movie ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

“She finds herself in such an insane situation,” Gyllenhaal said in a press conference promoting the film. “Having been brought back from the dead without her consent to be the wife of someone that ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally never completed in Mary Shelly’s novel, and was a mere cameo in James Whale ...

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In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s ...

The new Maggie Gyllenhaal film, The Bride!, is set to release in theaters this week. This marks the actress-turned-filmmaker's second directorial effort after The Lost Daughter, which was released in ...

Bride Humiliates Poor Bridesmaid Over Her Dress! You'll Never Guess What Happens Next! Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the US goes to war with Iran Heavy snow warning as ...

RICH MAN, POOR MAN - BOOK I - Gallery - Shoot Date: January 12, 1976. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) NICK NOLTE;SUSAN BLAKELY;PETER STRAUSS Long ...

When I was in my early twenties, struggling through college and trying to make sense of money in a way that wasn’t just about getting a job and paying bills, a professor handed me a reading list. One ...