The post Film Review: Gretel and Hansel Is a Gorgeous and Moody Update of a Classic Fairy Tale appeared first on Consequence of Sound. One might worry that adapting an admittedly slim fairy tale into ...

The Brothers Grimm were aptly named: fairy tales like “Hansel and Gretel,” about a destitute couple dying of famine, who abandon their children in the woods to save their own lives, are already scary ...

Aside from the odd Oscar contender expanding into wide release, January is not known as a fertile period for film releases, and in particular, the schlocky January horror film has practically become ...

As a long-time lover of fairy tales, especially in their original spooky and very politically incorrect versions, I have been enjoying this latest resurgence. On the TV it ranges from the rather ...

There’s a scene early on in the new film “Gretel & Hansel” when the two title characters accidentally scarf down psychedelic mushrooms in a forest and it produces one very strong feeling in the ...

While The Brothers Grimm — and public domain properties as a whole — have been a difficult sell at the domestic box office in recent years (check out the numbers on Robin Hood), Hansel and Gretel: ...

Gretel & Hansel is not messing around. Gretel (Lillis)’s mother (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) tries to marry her off, and when Gretel doesn’t impress the guy she tells her daughter to smile more. Women will ...

Producer Juliet Blake (The Hundred-Foot Journey) has acquired the feature rights to Hansel and Gretel, the upcoming graphic novel authored by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti. The plan ...

Juliet Blake, who teamed with Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg on “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” is developing a live-action “Hansel and Gretel” movie. Blake, through her Four Chickens for a Fiver ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...