In this week's Reel to Real column, we break down why The Bride! bombed at the box office, how Hoppers hit and Sinners' big streaming numbers.

In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...

Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, brainy, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of ...

Despite its incendiary aspirations, the new film from Maggie Gyllenhaal is more pussy hat than punk rock.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.

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 ...

That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill ...

Here comes the motherfucking Bride!” cries Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) at the beginning of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ...

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in this occasionally clever yet punishing hot mess from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s glorious, (re)invigorating ‘Zombie and Clyde’ co-stars Christian Bale as one of the best Frankenstein Monsters.

When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels like needless table-setting.

Just as much as I am a fan of Tim Burton's films, I am equally enthusiastic about his longtime partner in crime. No I don't mean Johnny Depp, but Danny Elfman, the composer for almost all of Burton's ...