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 ...

'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 ...

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 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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A few years back, Dear Readers, I stumbled on ...

The line features 22 gowns inspired by Disney princesses including Ariel, Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Rapunzel, Snow White and Tiana Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings/Allure Bridals ...

Esteemed fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien once said that fantasy was true literature meant to be read, and that dramatic presentations of fairy tales were nothing but intolerable misfortunes. "I have never ...

Let’s cut girls in tiaras some slack. With all the hoopla and outrage over cartoon heroines fighting evil in high heels and with a man at their side, you might think that Cinderella endorsed Trump ...