Christian Bale is taking on yet another iconic canon role after his “Dark Knight” trilogy, but this time, he’s playing not a superhero but a man-made monster.
Bale has transformed into Frankenstein for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore feature “The Bride!” Jessie Buckley stars as the titular bride of Frankenstein, with writer/director Gyllenhaal sharing a first look at the upcoming Warner Bros. film on social media.
“Meet The Bride and Frank,” Gyllenhaal captioned.
In addition to Buckley and Bale, the all-star cast also includes Annette Bening, Penelope Cruz, and Peter Sarsgaard, who is married to Gyllenhaal. The logline for the film reads: “A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention...
Bale has transformed into Frankenstein for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore feature “The Bride!” Jessie Buckley stars as the titular bride of Frankenstein, with writer/director Gyllenhaal sharing a first look at the upcoming Warner Bros. film on social media.
“Meet The Bride and Frank,” Gyllenhaal captioned.
In addition to Buckley and Bale, the all-star cast also includes Annette Bening, Penelope Cruz, and Peter Sarsgaard, who is married to Gyllenhaal. The logline for the film reads: “A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention...
- 4/4/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Stars: Alicia Underwood, Taylor Cox, Naomi Lopez, Jack Rain, Dee Wallace, Meeko | Written by Juan Salas, Iv Amenti | Directed by Juan Salas
House of Dolls refers to the house where three estranged, to put it mildly, sisters Diana, Helen (Taylor Cox) and Charlotte are forced to deal with each other in order to collect an inheritance.
Considering how much they hate each other there must be a lot of money at stake to make the three of them plus Charlott’s boyfriend Justin spend a weekend in a house built to resemble a giant dollhouse. But, according to their grandmother Celine his final wish was that they reconcile so here they are.
Large sums of money might also explain the masked killer who’s roaming Los Angeles killing anyone with a connection to the girls. That ranges from one of their boyfriends to the manager of the club where aspiring...
House of Dolls refers to the house where three estranged, to put it mildly, sisters Diana, Helen (Taylor Cox) and Charlotte are forced to deal with each other in order to collect an inheritance.
Considering how much they hate each other there must be a lot of money at stake to make the three of them plus Charlott’s boyfriend Justin spend a weekend in a house built to resemble a giant dollhouse. But, according to their grandmother Celine his final wish was that they reconcile so here they are.
Large sums of money might also explain the masked killer who’s roaming Los Angeles killing anyone with a connection to the girls. That ranges from one of their boyfriends to the manager of the club where aspiring...
- 10/13/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
If you want to give a great actor a role he can sink his teeth into with almost unseemly glee, there can’t be many better ways than to cast him as a critic in a period melodrama. That, at least, seems to be the idea behind “The Critic,” Anand Tucker’s tale of a nefarious theater reviewer in 1930s London starring Ian McKellen as the kind of awful person who must have been a lot of fun to play.
It is not, perhaps, a role that would challenge the magnificent McKellen much, but who needs a challenge when you can spit out viciously witty bon mots while wearing fancy duds and being lit at all times for maximum dramatic effect? And while McKellen’s Jimmy Erskine is a villain to remember, he isn’t a one-dimensional baddie. He’s a proudly gay man who can be arrested for who...
It is not, perhaps, a role that would challenge the magnificent McKellen much, but who needs a challenge when you can spit out viciously witty bon mots while wearing fancy duds and being lit at all times for maximum dramatic effect? And while McKellen’s Jimmy Erskine is a villain to remember, he isn’t a one-dimensional baddie. He’s a proudly gay man who can be arrested for who...
- 9/11/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The episode of Revisited covering Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Joseph Wilson, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
When one mentions the name Frankenstein in the horror film world, almost everyone thinks of the Universal Monsters version of it, the one brought to the screens in 1931 starring Boris Karloff as The Monster. His version is beloved for many reasons. However, one of the closest to the novel adaptation is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (watch it Here) from 1994, directed and starring Kenneth Branagh with Robert De Niro as The Creature. As what is supposed to be the closest adaptation, it would be easy to think it would be adored by fans and while that is true for some, it’s not for many.
As for myself, well, my opinion of it seems to change year to year almost.
When one mentions the name Frankenstein in the horror film world, almost everyone thinks of the Universal Monsters version of it, the one brought to the screens in 1931 starring Boris Karloff as The Monster. His version is beloved for many reasons. However, one of the closest to the novel adaptation is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (watch it Here) from 1994, directed and starring Kenneth Branagh with Robert De Niro as The Creature. As what is supposed to be the closest adaptation, it would be easy to think it would be adored by fans and while that is true for some, it’s not for many.
As for myself, well, my opinion of it seems to change year to year almost.
- 8/24/2023
- by Emilie Black
- JoBlo.com
Mary Shelley's book "Frankenstein" has received countless movie and television adaptations over the years. The iconic novel, which was originally published in 1818, follows a mad scientist named Victor Frankenstein who, after losing his mother to scarlet fever, is determined to defy nature and learn how to bring the dead back to life. Although he successfully creates a humanoid creature by using pieces from various corpses, Victor comes to regret his experiment once he loses control of the creature, who kills his loved ones.
If you're a horror fan who's itching to see a modern take on this classic story, you'll love Bomani J. Story's film "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster." The movie, which hit theaters on June 9, stars Laya DeLeon Hayes as Vicaria, a 17-year-old genius who embarks on a mission to bring her brother back to life after losing him to gun violence.
Since "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster...
If you're a horror fan who's itching to see a modern take on this classic story, you'll love Bomani J. Story's film "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster." The movie, which hit theaters on June 9, stars Laya DeLeon Hayes as Vicaria, a 17-year-old genius who embarks on a mission to bring her brother back to life after losing him to gun violence.
Since "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster...
- 7/18/2023
- by Michele Mendez
- Popsugar.com
"Before you tap that shoulder, sugar – identify yourself."
"The name's Daredevil – horn-head for short. And you?"
"Depends. If you're spendin' money, it's Power Man – Hero for Hire. Otherwise, Cage'll do – Luke Cage."
Thus began the not entirely auspicious teaming of Luke Cage and Daredevil in the pages of the 24th issue of The Defenders, from 1975. It was, in fact, the only story in that comic's 15-year existence in which any of the characters on Netflix's identically titled series would meet. The 2017 incarnation – Daredevil and Luke Cage, plus Jessica Jones and...
"The name's Daredevil – horn-head for short. And you?"
"Depends. If you're spendin' money, it's Power Man – Hero for Hire. Otherwise, Cage'll do – Luke Cage."
Thus began the not entirely auspicious teaming of Luke Cage and Daredevil in the pages of the 24th issue of The Defenders, from 1975. It was, in fact, the only story in that comic's 15-year existence in which any of the characters on Netflix's identically titled series would meet. The 2017 incarnation – Daredevil and Luke Cage, plus Jessica Jones and...
- 8/23/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Copyright WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Blu-ray
It’s hard to create a great wrestling character: for every Rock, there’s 10 Man Mountain Rocks, and for every Kane, there’s 10 Isaac Yankems.
But with the right talent, and the right push, a star can be made. Sometimes that star begins to fade, though, and sometimes WWE likes to get cute, which is invariably a bad combination. The company then tweaks a formula that was once working too far, and fans end up now rejecting a former favourite.
Every once in a while, a drastic turn for a character works. After all, when The Rock first began talking in the third person, it seemed a bit out there. But fans adjusted quickly, and that change to his act paid off tremendously. More often, though, big gimmick changes fall flat and are painful to watch. WWE would have been better off not...
It’s hard to create a great wrestling character: for every Rock, there’s 10 Man Mountain Rocks, and for every Kane, there’s 10 Isaac Yankems.
But with the right talent, and the right push, a star can be made. Sometimes that star begins to fade, though, and sometimes WWE likes to get cute, which is invariably a bad combination. The company then tweaks a formula that was once working too far, and fans end up now rejecting a former favourite.
Every once in a while, a drastic turn for a character works. After all, when The Rock first began talking in the third person, it seemed a bit out there. But fans adjusted quickly, and that change to his act paid off tremendously. More often, though, big gimmick changes fall flat and are painful to watch. WWE would have been better off not...
- 1/21/2014
- by Andrew Soucek
- Obsessed with Film
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