Brief Tutorial on Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations

Terrence Rafferty brings us up to speed on the latest film and television adaptations.

Fairy tales can come true, the old song goes; it can happen to you, apparently, if you're young at heart. Whether one believes this hopeful sentiment, and regardless of the age of one's internal organs, there's no doubt that fairy tales have for the past couple of years — and into the foreseeable future — been coming pretty regularly to screens both big and small, achieving, you could say, at least the kind of quasi-truth that movies and television can concoct.

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