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American Bride rushed home on medical evacuation flight after suffering acute liver failure on Japan honeymoon

American Bride rushed home on medical evacuation flight after suffering acute liver failure on Japan honeymoon

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more A new bride is being rushed back to the U.S. after her honeymoon in Japan turned into a terrifying medical emergency. Sarah Danh, 27, has been hospitalized in critical care for nearly two weeks after she suffered acute liver failure on the second day of her trip to Japan, according to a GoFundMe for the newlyweds. Danh took an emergency medical evacuation flight that landed Tuesday night in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, 28-year-old Luke Gradl, according to People. Her mother, Le Le, flew back to the U.S. separately after she had joined the couple in Japan for “moral support,” the outlet reported. “A huge thank you to the medical team in Japan — the doctors and nurses who worked nonstop to keep …

Noah Lyles faces backlash over his reaction to seeing his bride in her wedding dress

Noah Lyles faces backlash over his reaction to seeing his bride in her wedding dress

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Noah Lyles had an underwhelming reaction to seeing his wife, Junelle Bromfield, in her wedding dress for the first time, prompting criticism online. Earlier this week, Bromfield, 28, posted a video on TikTok of her and Lyles’s first look from their April 4 wedding day. During the tradition — where the bride shows off her gown to her groom in an intimate moment alone before the ceremony — Lyles, 28, clad in a brown tuxedo and bowtie, stood with his back turned to Bromfield awaiting the big reveal of her wedding dress. After Bromfield tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around to see his bride in a beaded white ball gown. “Oh wow, OK,” he said. “Oh wow. I didn’t think you’d go …

Photographer Wonders If He Should Refund Bride After Staff Member Hooked Up With Groom

Photographer Wonders If He Should Refund Bride After Staff Member Hooked Up With Groom

Published by Jenni Sidey

An anonymous wedding photographer asked for advice on the subreddit r/WeddingPhotography after a colleague betrayed him and the newlyweds they worked with. He found himself in an incredibly awkward situation after he discovered that another photographer he doesn’t usually work with hooked up with the groom from the wedding they shot. The angry bride thinks the photographer should take full responsibility even though he had no control over what happened. The bride wants a refund on her wedding photos after learning her new husband cheated on her with one of their wedding photographers.  The photographer explained that his usual co-photographer couldn’t make it to a wedding he photographed a few months ago, so he hired someone else whom he found online with top-notch skills. They photographed the wedding, edited the pictures, and sent them over to the bride and groom after the wedding. “Everything seemed business as usual,” he reported. Alexander Mass | Pexels A few weeks after the wedding, he received an email from the bride. “She wanted a refund because the lady I …

Original Bride of Frankenstein Elsa Lanchester had an incredibly famous husband

Original Bride of Frankenstein Elsa Lanchester had an incredibly famous husband

Published by Daniella Wilson

Fans will no doubt be flocking to cinemas this weekend to watch The Bride!, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley. However, back in 1935, the original Bride of Frankenstein was released, and it starred Elsa Lanchester as the titular character. The iconic horror film helped rocket the actress to stardom, and she followed the performance up with major roles in Passport to Destiny and Come to the Stable, the latter of which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The actress, who passed away at the age of 84 in 1986, started her career in 1927 with a role in the silent film, One of the Best. Before becoming an actress, Elsa was a cabaret singer performing old Victorian songs at the Cave of Harmony; however, she eventually became a stage actress after landing a role in Mr. Prohack. This role would change her life, as it would lead her to meet her future husband, the Hollywood actor Charles Laughton. The couple married in 1927 and remained together until Charles sadly died at the …

‘The Bride!’ Is a Failed Experiment

‘The Bride!’ Is a Failed Experiment

Published by Daniella Wilson

Monster movies come in strange bunches. Vampires dominated the screen in the 2010s, as gritty zombie hordes had the decade before that. Lately, we’re awash in Frankensteins, each adding stylized flavor to Mary Shelley’s novel: Zelda Williams’s goofy high-school version, Lisa Frankenstein; Yorgos Lanthimos’s steampunk reimagining, Poor Things; and Guillermo Del Toro’s faithful-to-a-fault take, currently up for nine Oscars. All used Shelley’s tale to sow sympathy for the creature, a relatable innocent navigating a world they didn’t ask to live in. Now shambling down the block comes Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, a proudly discordant spin on Bride of Frankenstein, the sequel to the classic 1931 Frankenstein movie that probed the titular monster’s desire for a companion. Rebuilding that story around its female lead could have made for a provocatively modern interpretation. Instead, any attempt by Gyllenhaal at conveying a message is drowned out by her film’s overwhelming goofiness. The Bride! has a little bit of something for everyone: Do you like Fred Astaire musicals? Or throwback gangster pictures? Perhaps you’re in the mood for a …

The Bride review: An ambitious and stylish monster movie that doesn’t entirely cohere

The Bride review: An ambitious and stylish monster movie that doesn’t entirely cohere

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Bride is released in cinemas from Friday 6 March. Add it to your watchlist James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff and the luminous Elsa Lanchester remains a playful, witty follow-up to the English director’s seminal version of Frankenstein (1931), and is often cited as a sequel superior to its acclaimed original, along with the likes of The Godfather Part II, The Empire Strikes Back and The Dark Knight. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s re-imagining of the 1935 Universal masterpiece is playful, too, boldly locating to mid-1930s America where the Monster or “Frank” (played by a suitably stitched-and-stapled Christian Bale) has reached the end of his tether after being alone for over a century. His desire for a mate brings the patchwork Romeo to the door of Chicago scientist Dr Euphronius (Annette Bening), whose work in reinvigorating the dead offers lovelorn Frank the chance to have a companion just like him. All they need is a recently deceased corpse… Enter Jessie Buckley as Ida, whose sudden transformation from glum gangster’s moll to dangerously gobby …

Maggie Gyllenhaal ‘pulled back’ the sexual violence in The Bride! after test screenings disturbed viewers

Maggie Gyllenhaal ‘pulled back’ the sexual violence in The Bride! after test screenings disturbed viewers

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Maggie Gyllenhaal said she was asked to tone down the sexual violence in The Bride! after viewers of the initial test screenings felt it was too much. The horror sci-fi, which marks Gyllenhaal’s second time in the director’s chair, stars Jessie Buckley as a murdered 1930s Chicago woman who is brought back to life by a groundbreaking scientist (Annette Bening) to serve as a companion to Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale). Gyllenhaal’s younger brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, also star. Speaking to The New York Times ahead of its Friday release date, Gyllenhaal, 48, confirmed: “Yes, there’s sexual violence. There’s violence.” She added, “Because it’s a big studio movie [Warner Bros. Pictures] we tested and tested it. We had big screenings in malls, where people came to see it, which I had never been a part of as an …

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Bride of Frankenstein lives for only five minutes or so of her 1935 movie. She never speaks a word. A hiss. A scream. And, with that, her creators recognise her abhorrence and snuff out instantly the existence they toiled so hard to revive. If a filmmaker like Maggie Gyllenhaal were to lend that monstrous woman a voice, then why wouldn’t it belong to the star of her directorial debut, 2021’s The Lost Daughter, and a soon-to-be Oscar winner, Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley? In The Bride! (note the exclamation point), Buckley is a mass-destructive cyclone of female rage, thrusting and spitting and ripping out tongues and pulling her skirt up and pointing a pistol sky high with tears in her eyes and an ink stain splattered across her lips like a gunshot wound. Buckley bleached her eyebrows for the role. That means …

Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ to Jilt Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’

Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ to Jilt Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’

Published by Daniella Wilson

In a much-needed win for Pixar’s core mission to provide original storytelling, Hoppers is positioned to deliver the iconic animated studio its biggest opening in nearly a decade for a non-franchise title. Conversely, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film, inspired by the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein, is in danger of being jilted at the altar. Disney is forecasting a global debut of $88 million for Hoppers. The last time a Pixar original did so well was Coco in 2017. In North America, tracking suggests it could open anywhere from $36 million to $40 million, with room for upside. It’s also expected to come in leaps and bounds ahead of Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, which Warner Bros. believes will open in the $16 million to $18 million range domestically and roughly $38 million-plus globally, although decidedly mixed reviews could ding the $80 million film. (It goes without saying that the two movies couldn’t be more different.) Hoppers has the advantage of hitting theaters in the wake of Disney Animation’s mega-blockbuster Zootopia 2, which provided further evidence that …

‘The Bride!’ review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a riot

‘The Bride!’ review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a riot

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What Maggie Gyllenhaal has done in her reimaging of The Bride of Frankenstein is utterly deranged. And thank God.  No shade to brilliant director James Whale, whose 1935 Universal sequel The Bride of Frankenstein is both exhilarating and cheekily queer. But — as Gyllenhaal has repeated frequently on The Bride!’s press tour — his titular monstress never speaks a word in her few short minutes of screen time. Still, as that original Bride, Elsa Lanchester made this she-beast an instantly compelling marvel who has become truly iconic, an intoxicating mix of high femme and the horrific.  Gyllenhaal smartly pulls these stylistic elements into her Bride!, as her revived Bride coughs up black bile that stains her lips in a perfect Cupid’s bow, with a chic and unnerving stain creeping up her high cheekbones. Gyllenhaal also borrows from Whale the inspired choice to have her lead actress play both the Monster’s Mate (as Lanchester was originally credited) and the author who birthed her, Mary Shelley. However, far from the prim, giggling lady presented in The Bride of Frankenstein, …