Maleficent shifts the spotlight away from the sweet, beautiful heroine and rehabilitates the most maligned figure in the fairy tale canon.... Of all Disney heroines, Aurora, aka Sleeping Beauty, was ...

If we must take a revisionist sledgehammer to our most beloved fairy tales — and if the recent likes of “Alice in Wonderland,” “Red Riding Hood,” “Mirror, Mirror,” “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Jack ...

It’s fair to say that Disney’s Maleficent plays to an extent as warmed-over Frozen. Maleficent is the latest dark, subversive live-action retelling of a classic fairy tale — in this case, Sleeping ...

It's certainly been a unique time for fairy-tale villains. After hundreds of years of moral clarity, suddenly we're getting a new look at these evil creatures. They are actually turning out to be ...

Maybe the tide has yet to shift definitively. In any case, fairy-tale villains have found themselves in a unique time. Suddenly, after hundreds of years of moral clarity, a new look is being given to ...

Disney's dark fairy Maleficent returns to the theaters with Angelina Jolie reprising her role as the villainous godmother of Sleeping Beauty. The artists behind her look explain how it came together.

Angelina Jolie has been in far better movies than the “Maleficent” franchise, but they provide an unparalleled platform for her appeal. The same birdlike monstrosity of the first entry, cloaked in ...

"Maleficent," a Walt Disney Studios release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America "for sequences of fantasy action and violence, including frightening images." Running time: 97 ...

Five years ago, Maleficent offered audiences an alternate version of the traditional Sleeping Beauty narrative — one told from the point of view of the fairy tale’s supposed villain, played by ...

The biggest box-office debut of Angelina Jolie's career propelled Disney's twisted fairy tale "Maleficent" to a scary-good $69.4 million opening. The PG-rated fantasy beat forecasts to easily top all ...

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