By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story: A young woman, indentured to a cruel stepmother, gets blessed by magical forces. With the help of a fairy, some woodland ...

If you go to enough film festivals and seek out the horror offerings therein, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll come across some rather extreme new visions. Far from the more mainstream ...

Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty. It’s tough times out there ...

What happens to Cinderella after she marries the prince? As a child, I was obsessed with this question. I watched the Disney cartoon almost daily, haunted by the movie’s final image of the ...

A new body horror movie inspired by Cinderella has debuted at Sundance, and it's already made one person throw up. The Ugly Stepsister, written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, focuses on Lea ...

“It was in the development process of one of these films that I was having a creative nap, and suddenly this little piece of the Brothers Grimm version of ‘Cinderella‘ came to me. I just ...

It is a peculiar aspect of the conversations that have come up around the film that “Anora” is described as a Cinderella story when it is attuned to very different transitions and awakenings ...