The sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and the sins of the sons are visited on their siblings in the dour “Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles.” Some stark and startling visual imagery is ...

Narrating fairytales to children before sleep is a bedtime ritual. Children get cosy and calm down for a good night’s sleep as they listen to their favourite stories. A study published in the British ...

In Meghan Cox Gurdon’s weekend column “Old Stories Made New—and Woke” (Children’s Books, Nov. 6), she reviews Soman Chainani’s book “Beasts and Beauty,” which rewrites classic fairy tales to “suit ...

CORVALLIS - On a recent Saturday, although school was out, the Corvallis High School Theatre buzzed with activity as a cast of brightly clothed medieval characters finished another high-energy song ...

Labyrinth – a place with a lot of crisscrossing or complicated passages, tunnels, or paths in which it would be easy to become lost. This is precisely where “Pan”s Labyrinth” takes us; into a rare ...

Elizabeth Lim, the author of “Six Crimson Cranes,” recommends some of her favorite retellings of classic fairy tales. By Elizabeth Lim Fairy tales made me fall in love with reading. When I was a kid, ...

A winner of seven Ariels at the 2001 Mexican Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor, and best original screenplay, this feature brims with magnificent landscapes—wind-sculpted canyons and ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. A strange and often compelling film of the magical realism school in which elements of the fantastic, magical and/or supernatural ...