Old-school fairy tales were decidedly darker than Disney would have you believe, full of allegory and cannibalism, gruesome death, and unheeded warnings. In every tale, a lesson and a zodiac ...

But for as many fairy tales as Disney has tackled, there's still a good amount it has missed. And while the entertainment leader stepped outside the European catalog with films like Mulan (1998 ...

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales Edited by Maria Tatar Norton, 445 pages, $35 Once upon a time, they were the stories that were read to us, and perhaps we have kept them alive to read to new audie… ...

What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine, $16, Amazon. What these fairy tales all have in common, and what they share with Carter, is a feeling of both timelessness and urgency. The authors writing them ...

Many much-loved traditional fairy tales are inappropriate, outdated and too scary for young children, according to young Brits.. Forty-six per cent of Brits under 30 believe that traditional fairy ...

All grown up, Hansel and Gretel return to the forest to exact revenge on their childhood tormentors. Snow White escapes the Evil Queen and takes up with a group of Shaolin monks. And after leaving ...

Read more about fairy tales and their characteristics below. Tonys Countdown BWW Awards - Vote Now! ... the traditional fairy tale characters of Into the Woods emerge from the collective unconscious.

Folk tales from around the world offer delight and inspiration—no modern updating required. ... Once upon a time, people told fairy tales because—well, there were lots of reasons.

Syfy is reinventing fairy tales and pop culture characters as partof its Saturday night TV movie franchise. The network is airing five titles that give a contemporary twist ona classic story, from ...

Critic David Edelstein reviews The Huntsman: Winter's War, a sequel to the 2012 movie, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Tale of Tales, an adaptation of a group of 17th century Italian folk stories.