And they lived happily ever after,” was the way all fairy tales ended, but for those of us who wondered what followed the ‘ever after’. Domestic abuse: Nothing hits home quite like seeing your ...

One of this summer's biggest films is Angelina Jolie's Maleficent, an alternative take on Sleeping Beauty illuminating the memorable villain's humanity. Maleficent comes in the wake of this past ...

'The Tale of The Princess Kaguya' starts out as a fairy tale, evolves into a cautionary lesson, and then becomes an emotional metaphor of life itself. Using animation that seems part sketch and part ...

The Walt Disney Company started exactly 100 years ago on this date as the Disney Brothers Studio. While there are plenty of more conventional celebrations happening, we thought it would be fun to walk ...

Yesterday I wrote about the possible effects of the box-office success of Alice in Wonderland on fairy-tale revisionism in family films to come. The flip side is the box-office disappointment of ...

Although you wouldn't guess it from his graying beard and everyday-man midsection, Kevin Lima is a living, breathing character straight out of a Disney fairy tale. "When I was 5 years old I saw 'The ...

The live-action martial arts movie The Princess could easily just be another story about one more headstrong princess who doesn’t want to wait around to be rescued. Its fairy-tale tropes could make it ...