in Maleficent this weekend. But in the 1959 Disney cartoon, Maleficent curses Aurora after not being invited to her christening. And it’s not just these ladies. All Disney villainesses turn bad ...

By Ashley Lee Maleficent, out Friday, is the origin tale of Disney’s most popular cartoon villain from 1959’s Sleeping Beauty, and stars Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley and Sam Riley.

This iconic scene — the one sequence “Maleficent” is at pains to reproduce from the classic cartoon, and the only sequence in which Jolie’s Maleficent is even a shadow of the cartoon’s ...

"Maleficent" is a movie parents will either ... film for preschoolers and elementary-school age kids. It has talking cartoon airplanes, and yep, there are cars, too. There are lots of rescue ...

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This new trailer for the Angeline Jolie-starring Maleficent debuted last night during the Grammy Awards broadast. Disney’s everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach to dark fantasy now includes ...