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Like the catchy tune in their live action remake of Snow White, Disney clearly has some "princess problems" with their classic fairy tale source material. The 2025 retelling suffers from the incoher-ence of the filmmakers' attempt to fix the fairy tale of a princess rescued by a prince with a story of female empowerment.

If you are like me, you enjoyed junior high English the most when our focus was on Greek mythology. Learning about the mythical gods and goddesses, legends of heroes and devastating monsters seemed like getting to read fairy tales every day.

You’ll find out in the first 10 minutes whether “The Legend of Ochi” is working for you. Me? I was in by minute five, and stayed there, even with some bumps along the way. Movies

It has been a month since Walt Disney Studios released the musical fantasy film “Snow White,’’ starring Colombian American actress Rachel Zegler as the title character and co-starring Gal

In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in theaters), the titular character is Elvira (Lea Myren), the eldest child of a widowed schemer (Ane Dahl Torp) who’s determined to secure her social standing in the 18th-century kingdom of Swedlandia by marrying off her daughters—also including the more practically minded Alma (Flo Fagerli)—to wealthy suitors.

L ike a lot of fairy-tale princesses, Cinderella is best known for the classic animated feature from Walt Disney. The 1950 animated version of Cinderellabecame a huge hit, which i