Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

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, ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Maggie Gyllenhaal, left, and Jessie Buckley poses ...

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.

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 ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...

'Hoppers' and 'The Bride!' Disney/Pixar/Warner Bros. Talking animals are still the rage and have no intentions of calming down at the weekend box office as Pixar’s Hoppers is bound to give the ...

The new Maggie Gyllenhaal film, The Bride!, is set to release in theaters this week. This marks the actress-turned-filmmaker's second directorial effort after The Lost Daughter, which was released in ...