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 ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally ...

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It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a movie that, to me, ...

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Christian Bale and Sibi Blažić share two kids; they met while Blažić worked as an assistant to Winona Ryder and married in 2000 Christian Bale and his wife Sibi Blažić had a date night out in New York ...

LOS ANGELES, March 4 (UPI) --Channeling both the literature and persona of Mary Shelley, The Bride!, in theaters Friday, crafts a monstrous love story seething with righteous indignation.

Credits: Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Hough, Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening and John Magaro. Rating/runtime: R for ...

There are more movies based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” than nearly any other story ever published. But something’s missing from a lot of them. Most “Frankenstein” movies have a mad scientist, ...

Considering there have been an estimated 187 cinematic takes on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and about 20 of them zoning in on the Bride of Frankenstein in one ...