Just before Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on the spinning wheel, Maleficent manifests in the fireplace, but for one bone-chilling moment the only thing we can see are her disembodied eyes ...

Earlier this spring, before this weekend’s release of Disney’s big-budget, live-action movie “Maleficent ... in the original story of “Sleeping Beauty” in the days of our distant ...

At least, that seems to be the case at the Downtown Arts building, where Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre has been preparing a ballet called “Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent” for a May 28 performance.

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

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 ...

Disney's new take on their classic 1959 film "Sleeping Beauty" adds new depth to an iconic villain. "Maleficent," which opens May 30, reveals the character's past and her road to evil.

Sleeping Beauty, adapted from the Charles Perrault ... who is put under a spell at birth by the bad fairy, Maleficent. She is to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die before she grows ...

At first glance, Sleeping Beauty seems among the Disney Princess ... equally politically advantageous to a young royal, but alas, Maleficent appears on the scene, so we’ll never know.