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 ...

Gretel shows her mojo. (Note: Having failed to find promo stills from this film, I have used trailer screen-grabs.) Credit: The Asylum This week in movies you missed: Usually in this blog feature, I ...

While Disney has found great success over the decades making animated and live-action versions of classic fairytales, the source material for these stories is often much darker than what gets to the ...

In virtually every respect, Osgood Perkins’s darkly atmospheric “Gretel & Hansel” could not be more different from the last major effort to borrow the Grimm Brothers’ mythic siblings for the big ...