Graphic arts grad students and young fans of multi-culti fairy tales are the most likely audiences for “Tales of the Night,’’ the new — and somewhat disappointing — animated wonder from French ...

Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty is quite different from versions popular today. When the king and queen fail to invite an elderly fairy to their daughter’s Christening, she arrives and curses ...

Prof. Armando Maggi, PhD’95, began his Humanities Day 2011 lecture with a clip from the opening scene of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Released in 1938, it was the first fairy tale to be turned ...

Did you know that the Italian Cinderella murdered her stepmother? Or that Sleeping Beauty had twins before marrying the prince? Or that the cats in Italian Puss-in-Boots stories were female? While ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Mermaids, enchanted castles, unbreakable curses, thrilling heroics, derring-do and true love's kiss — fairy tales make for an embarrassment of riches when it comes to filmmaking. Many of the greatest ...