With her audacious sophomore feature "The Bride!" writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on "Bride of Frankenstein": what if "the Joker" was "brat"? (To borrow Charli XCX's ineffable description of a rebellious party girl personality.) Gyllenhaal brings this modern concept to the 91-year-old James Whale film (his sequel to "Frankenstein"), in which Elsa Lanchester made the ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AM on March 5, 2026