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Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse

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 it’s alive, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review. Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal has set her sights on reimagining 1935’s “The Bride of Frankenstein.” But in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the shock-haired Bride is only on screen for a handful of minutes. Gyllenhaal has refashioned the story from the Bride’s perspective and concocted a protagonist of unfiltered feminist fury. As played by Jessie Buckley, she's both a victim of male control and a reanimated avenging angel.

War Child UK looks to 'Help' again with a new benefit album, 30 years after its first success

Thirty years after the success of its star-studded “Help” benefit compilation, War Child UK is releasing its follow-up called “Help(2)."  The project features Arctic Monkeys, Olivia Rodrigo, Wet Leg and others. The album, out Friday, is meant to raise money and attention for the charity's initiatives supporting children living through war. War Child UK’s Rich Clarke says the timing felt right because musicians now feel they need to act. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker said the band finished a long-stalled song for the album and even allowed children to film him in the studio for the companion documentary.

Denmark is set to explore if gastronomy can be recognized as an art form

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is debating whether top-level cooking counts as art, and the country’s most theatrical restaurants sit at the center of it. The culture ministry is exploring formal recognition for gastronomy. Some chefs say food can carry ideas, emotion, and social messages, like modern performance art. They also say art status could unlock public funding and private grants. But others say food has a different purpose which must be consumed. Art voices say chefs could start competing for the same cultural money.

The to-do list of Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo includes Othello and a memoir

LONDON (AP) — Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo has decades of performances on screen, stage and television under his belt. And he still has a to-do list with four roles he’d like to tackle. Lindo says he plans to make a film about the spirituality of Jamaica, as well as a project about his mom’s journey from the Caribbean to London. He’d also like to play a prominent Black activist, someone like Marcus Garvey. And to revisit Othello on film, after inhabiting the Shakespearean hero twice on stage.

The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!” into a big, wild studio film that reimagines the Bride of Frankenstein as a voice of rebellion. On Friday, the movie opens in theaters with a major rollout including IMAX screens. Gyllenhaal says she wanted to make something more epic than her first film, the Oscar nominated adaptation of Elena Ferrante's “The Lost Daughter.” She also says studio test screenings push her to make useful changes. Jessie Buckley leads the story across several identities, including the titular reanimated corpse. Christian Bale plays the lonely monster by her side.

'Brady Bunch' house, used in exterior shots for the popular sitcom, gets LA landmark status

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The LA city council has voted unanimously to designate the the so-called “Brady Bunch” house in the San Fernando Valley as a historic-cultural monument. The vote grants landmark protections to the house on Dilling Avenue that was used for exterior shots of the TV sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974. Interior scenes were shot on a soundstage, with sets that bore no resemblance to the property that become a photo-op magnet for “Brady Bunch” fans. The landmark status protects the home, built in 1959, from demolition or major renovations — but doesn’t prohibit them.

Stella McCartney lets horses steal the show — and makes her point in Paris without saying a word

PARIS (AP) — Ten horses — five black, five white — entered the sand ring first. The models came second. That told you everything you needed to know about Stella McCartney’s priorities at Paris Fashion Week. The British-American designer staged her Winter 2026 show Wednesday inside a riding hall in the Bois de Boulogne, marking the Lunar New Year of the Horse with what amounted to a quiet manifesto: fashion can celebrate animals rather than consume them. The horses, guided by equestrian artist Jean-François Pignon, moved in choreographed patterns around the oval ring as models walked its perimeter. Several were visibly moved during rehearsals, McCartney said.

An Oscar race that looked like a runaway may be a close call, after all

NEW YORK (AP) — Who says to beware the Ides of March? The upside of a prolonged Oscar race has meant some unexpected late drama. For months, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” sailed through awards season, picking up prize after prize. But the wins for “Sinners” and Michael B. Jordan at Sunday’s Actor Awards have given the Oscar race what Smoke or Stack might call fresh blood. An Academy Awards that had looked like a runaway might be a close call, after all.

Robert De Niro delivers Lincoln’s civility warning at a Carnegie Hall benefit

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro was a featured guest Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall, where he recited Abraham Lincoln’s warning against mob violence. He was appearing at a Tibet House US benefit. The concert also featured Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Maya Hawke, and others. The performers rarely spoke President Donald Trump’s name. Still, the night carried clear political weight. Glass had canceled a Kennedy Center premiere after Trump replaced the center’s leadership. Other artists have also pulled out. Onstage at Carnegie Hall, musicians condemned war, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and indifference.