I remembered seeing the movie for the first time. I thought it was wonderful, along with a moral to the story. Some story twists were surprising to me. Hey, if you’re reading this and you didn’t watch the movie yet, there’s going to be spoilers. So, be warned; it would spoil the surprise either positively or negatively.



Well, let’s start here about the movie. In the beginning, we were introduced to the faerie kingdom, the Moors. The narrator only explained the discord between humans and faeries. She didn’t give a backstory on what caused the discord (a prologue explaining the discord...

As a child of the classic 2-D hand-drawn Disney animated films, I was raised to fear the dark villains of Snow White, Peter Pan and Sleeping Beauty. Maleficent was probably the most menacing and sinister of all the Disney villains. Her glowing green eyes, the horns and her supernatural powers to control the environment and cast curses made her by far the most fearsome villain. When I heard that Disney was making a live-action feature film about Maleficent, my interest was piqued. When they announced that Angelina Jolie was going to be playing the title role, I was intrigued. An origin story...