As Disney hopes audiences flock to theaters to see Angelina Jolie purr her way through the title role in Maleficent, let's not forget the first woman to embody Sleeping Beauty's evil queen: Eleanor ...

The 2014 live-action movie Maleficent is a fresh take on the classic fairy tale movie Sleeping Beauty and tells the well-known story from the perspective of the original story’s villain, Maleficent.

Joachim Rønning recently addressed the potential of returning to direct Maleficent 3, the next installment in Disney’s ongoing franchise. It presents the story of the classic Sleeping Beauty story ...

Maybe it’s too soon to say the tide has shifted definitively. But it’s certainly been a unique time for fairy-tale villains. After hundreds of years of moral clarity, suddenly, we’re getting a new ...