Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal proves with her second film, "The Bride!", that not all ideas should be brought to life.

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 ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...

Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, conspicuously tailor-made to align with Warner Bros.' neighboring DC properties ...

Pitched as a sequel to the novel Frankenstein by its onscreen author Mary Shelley, The Bride! is a riotous story about the ...

Here comes "The Bride!", Maggie Gyllenhaal's extremely messy, extremely inventive film that dares you to try to neatly fit it into one genre. It's a sort-of-musical, meta-sequel-reboot, comedy, love ...

The Bride lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...

Image Credit: The Bride! (Image: Warner Bros) Maggie Gyllenhaal’s latest release, ‘The Bride!‘ has become a major box office disappointment for Warner Bros. Starring Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s ...