But I decided to rewatch it now, in my twenties, and I have to say, I have a newfound appreciation for Aurora – and Maleficent as a whole – but today, we'll talk about the princess.

Aurora is more of a symbol than a person, a princess whose fate was dictated by others. Then, decades later, 2014's ...

The first movie revealed that Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) watched over the princess and even grew to love her, later reversing the curse and awakening Aurora from her long sleep. In Mistress of ...

For no reason at all. The title may have been Maleficent, but a large majority of time was spent watching Princess Aurora plod around in the forest. And isn’t Aurora great? With her blonde hair ...

To try and break the curse, Maleficent and Phillip break into the castle, where Phillip kisses the young princess. However, this does not wake up Aurora, and Maleficent feels that her lack of ...

REARVIEW: Disney has intriguingly dismantled one of its own mythologies with 'Maleficent,' but the beauty and artistry of 'Sleeping Beauty' still endure. If we must take a revisionist sledgehammer ...

They will know.' " The first trailer focused on the frosty meeting of Jolie's Maleficent and Pfeiffer's Ingrith as they celebrate Princess Aurora's (Elle Fanning) engagement to Prince Philip.

“I had to walk by them being very mean,” Jolie recalled of the terrifying scene where she places a curse on newborn baby Aurora. “Of course, I wanted to stop and wink at them.” Maleficent ...

Maleficent will be in theaters May 30, 2014 and co-stars Sharlto Copley and Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty.

The sexual politics of Disney’s “Maleficent” are a complicated business. The most important thing, or at least the basic thing, is that the moviemakers took a villainess and turned her into ...