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The Bride!'s Christian Bale: 'I don't watch that many movies'

Award-winning actor Christian Bale has loads of films that he still needs to watch.

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The Bride!: A Feminist Frankenstein That Plays Like a Lost Remnant of Woke Culture

A cinematic time capsule from before the vibe shift.

Reason

From 5 Stars To 0 Stars, Critics Can Only Agree That The Bride! Is ‘Meant To Push Viewers’ Buttons’

Maggie Gyllenhaal directs Jessie Buckley in the new adaptation.

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Christian Bale on exploring the more "comedic" sides of Frankenstein's monster in new sci-fi horror The Bride: "He's rotting, he stinks to high heaven, and he can't die"

Exclusive: The Bride's Peter Sarsgaard and Christian Bale unpack their unlikely "gentlemen" in Maggie Gyllenhaal's monster movie

Total Film

Frankenstein Couldn't ‘Lick Black Vomit Off The Bride’s Neck’ And Other Wild Studio Notes Maggie Gyllenhaal Received

The Bride! pushed some boundaries…

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New horror-romance The Bride earns mixed first reviews, as critics call it everything from "a modern classic" to a "wokified, Jokerfied Folie-a-deux"

It's a monster mash-up of opinions

Total Film

The Bride! star Christian Bale 'cherry-picked' from previous Frankenstein depictions

Christian Bale has revealed that he took his favourite bits from previous portrayals of Frankenstein into his depiction of Mary Shelley's famous monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's new movie The Bride!.

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Is The Bride! A Love Story? Christian Bale Has Some Harsh Thoughts About The Romance Genre

The new movie reimagines The Bride Of Frankenstein.

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The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

3/5 The ‘Hamnet’ star reunites with her ‘Lost Daughter’ director on this playful and imaginative yet somewhat baffling experiment

The Independent UK

Christian Bale: Everyone has chaos to them

Christian Bale has reflected on the challenges of playing Frankenstein's monster in The Bride!.

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Scream 7 writer/director is bringing Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Dracula, and more Universal monsters to Netflix in a show that's described as an "adult Vampire Diaries"

Universal is trying its 'Dark Universe' of monsters again as a Netflix show

Total Film

Christian Bale "cherry-picked" his version of Frankenstein's monster from the bits Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff "got right" for The Bride: "'Oh, apparently he's got a flat head'? That's wrong"

Exclusive: The Bride star Christian Bale opens up on his more human version of Frankenstein's monster

Total Film

Why Frankenstein should win the best picture Oscar

Guillermo del Toro has overcome the Academy’s aversion to fantasy before and with this heartfelt telling of the monster classic he should do it again

The Guardian - UK

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Undead brides, daydreaming waitresses, and teenage detectives - this week sees the return of iconic fictional characters and more. Here's what to look out for.

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90 Years Later, A Legendary Actor Still Elevates A Forgotten Horror

Boris Karloff is dead and loving to get paid for it.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal: Consent is the 'major issue' of The Bride

Maggie Gyllenhaal says consent is the central theme of new movie The Bride! "because she fundamentally has no say in it".

The Independent UK

Maggie Gyllenhaal opens up about changing relationship with brother Jake: ‘In the past, I’ve had to be separate’

‘The Dark Knight’ actor and filmmaker denied ever being ‘estranged’ from her sibling, whom she directs in new film ‘The Bride!’

Total Film

The Bride first reactions say Jessie Buckley's new Frankenstein movie is "what Joker: Folie a Deux desperately wished it was"

The Bride debuts to overwhelmingly positive first reactions

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The Mary Sue

‘The Bride!’ First Reactions Are Hyped: “What Joker: Folie a Deux Wished It Was”

Here comes... the next hit movie!

The Independent UK

Christian Bale says latest movie transformation made him ‘scream like crazy’

‘I thought everyone would just think I'm going nuts,’ actor – famed for his intense evolutions – admitted

Guitar World

“Have I held Frankenstein? Was it a total, Excalibur-level experience? I don't even know how to articulate that, but I got emotional”: Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on recording at Eddie Van Halen's legendary 5150 Studios

The guitar duo recall the surreal experience of going into the “sacred” studio – and how that impacted the DNA of their latest record

Euronews

BAFTA 2026: 'One Battle After Another' takes six awards, 'Sinners' and 'Frankenstein' win three each

The big BAFTA favourite 'One Battle After Another' took six prizes including Best Picture and Best Director while the period vampire epic 'Sinners' and gothic horror 'Frankenstein' both won three awards.

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'It Was A Love Story': Exclusive 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Clip Breaks Down Samson And Kelson's Bromance

This plotline brought heart and laughs.

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Is Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype? Our Honest Review Of The Controversial Romance Film

On paper, a film adaptation of a 180-year-old novel starring the leads of Barbie and Frankenstein sounds like an AI-generated fever dream.

Total Film

Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro reveals he once developed a screenplay with The Godfather's Francis Ford Coppola for an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo: "It's a Gothic Western!"

"I have the screenplay."

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