The storybook wedding between Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco was held on April 19, 1956, and is still remembered as ...
Review: 'The Bride!' is the latest Frankenstein brought to life by Warner Bros., and it ain't more than the sum of its parts, ...
The industry often claims to want new voices. But when a woman delivers a film as unapologetically rooted in female ...
There is no music on a moonless night during a crucial scene in The Mummy of 1932. There is almost no music in the movie at all beyond a derivative, if ever effective, use of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ...
Giving Ida a name and a powerful story rather than just letting her be an unnamed bride reinforced the film’s feminist ...
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Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word. This is ...
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 ...
It’s been over two centuries since Victor Frankenstein’s monster first opened his eyes, and just shy of one since Boris Karloff’s turn as the Creature cemented the bolt-wearing behemoth as a horror ...
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 ...
Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro’s "Frankenstein." (Ken Woroner/Netflix/TNS) Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” hits theaters this weekend, another take on the Frankenstein ...