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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Now that Disney’s hit “Maleficent” is on home video, following last month’s Diamond Edition Blu-ray return of the classic 1959 “Sleeping Beauty” from the vault, countless children will be watching ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a stage mother’s nightmare. You get your 4-year-old daughter a role in the big summer movie “Maleficent” – Disney’s latest take on the “Sleeping Beauty” legend but from the villain’s ...

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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.

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