The once-rebellious act of parodying children's fairy tales has become hackneyed and formulaic itself, says James Poniewozik, Time magazine's television and movie critic. These days, movie studios are ...

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Once upon a time, in a land near near by, there were fairy tales. Brave princes slew dragons and saved fair damsels. Princesses and scullery maids waited for brave knights and true love. The good were ...

Fairy tales, fractured or intact, never seem to go out of style, and the evidence is right in front of us with the new film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” and ABC’s effectively ...