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Film reviews: New releases for March 6
Hoppers; The Bride!; Dolly; Protector
"Hoppers" Pixar Animation Studios The Bride! **1/2 There are any number of ways to approach a contemporary re-telling of The Bride of Frankenstein —and apparently writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s approach was to attempt all of them. That starts with a prologue that directly posits the spirit of Mary Shelley herself (Jessie Buckley) as a kind of avenging angel trying to tell more stories from the grave, subsequently possessing the body of a 1930s Chicago mob moll named Ida (also played by Buckley), who subsequently becomes the corpse used as companion (yep, still played by Buckley) for a…
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