After four years away from the big screen, Angelina Jolie returns to theaters this weekend as an iconic Disney villain in "Maleficent." The estimated $175 million+, live-action version of its 1959 ...

The 2014 live-action movie Maleficent is a fresh take on the classic fairy tale movie Sleeping Beauty and tells the well-known story from the perspective of the original story’s villain, Maleficent.

Elle Fanning's 2014 Disney live-action film Maleficent is finding redemption on streaming 12 years later, despite mixed ...

Maleficent (2014) Film Review, a movie directed by Robert Stromberg, and starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton ...

NEW YORK — The biggest box-office debut of Angelina Jolie’s career propelled Disney’s twisted fairy tale “Maleficent” to a scary-good $70 million opening. The PG-rated fantasy beat forecasts to easily ...

This year, 2014, marks the 55th Anniversary of the character who put a spell on young “Sleeping Beauty” in the animated feature released by Disney in 1959. Since her introduction, Maleficent has been ...

Maleficent is the new black. I make that statement referring to the Mistress of All Evil character Disney originated in the 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, now getting her own feature length, live ...

Maleficent, the story of a sinister fairy with vengeance issues, opens with visual panache. But it fails to live up to its early promise, mostly because of an uneven tone and murky character ...

The impressive cinematography in “Maleficent” doesn’t make up for its many shortcomings and, at best, the Angelina Jolie movie is only mediocre. The movie’s biggest problem isn’t the acting, nor the ...

Disney is having a banner year at the box office. The behemoth production studio broke the record for total global revenue in July, after a string of movies that were either massive hits (like ...

“You know sometimes I don’t think she’s very happy,” one of the “good fairies” says of the villain Maleficent in Disney’s 1959 film “Sleeping Beauty.” In that animated feature, it’s never really ...