REARVIEW: Disney has intriguingly dismantled one of its own mythologies with 'Maleficent,' but the beauty and artistry of 'Sleeping Beauty' still endure. If we must take a revisionist sledgehammer ...

Despite its gorgeous animation, Sleeping Beauty is an uncomfortable watch, mainly because of how they portray Aurora. Elle ...

Maleficent is displeased with the news ... The movie overall could use more subtlety, from the dialogue (“sleeping beauty” is a phrase used more than once) to the emphasis on intolerance ...

It's been 55 years since her big-screen debut in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but we all remember Maleficent: red lips, twisted horns, and green flames. She's the self-proclaimed Mistress of All Evil ...

She is the meanest woman ever to get her own plush toy. Maleficent, the wicked fairy from “Sleeping Beauty” who condemns the infant Princess Aurora to die, is the protagonist of a new movie ...

Maleficent, the story of a sinister fairy with ... the malevolent character from the 1959 animated Disney movie Sleeping Beauty, its cobbled-together plot meanders more than a stroll through ...

Just as Maleficent's wingless body ends up tied to the ground, her story is limited by the parameters set by the conventional Sleeping Beauty tale. This is because — despite the film's title ...

The first Maleficent movie shed new light on old Disney villain in its retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Its sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which opened on Thursday, continues ...

Disney Dreamlight Valley reveals two big new updates coming to the game in summer 2025, along with a peek at the game's ...

Valdez notes that in the Christening scene during which Maleficent places a curse on Aurora (pictured at the top of this article), “we wanted to do an homage to Sleeping Beauty because it had ...

This suggests she was wronged in the past, and not as unjustifiably evil as she seemed in 1959's Sleeping Beauty. And Maleficent's isn't the first villainous origin story we've seen of late.