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 ...

Disney cartoons have given us a Native American princess (Pocahontas), a Chinese heroine (Mulan), several European-based fairy-tale princesses (Snow White, Cinderella) and a leading lady who’s half ...

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 ...