This subversion of fairy-tale tropes led to one of the most clever plot twists of any film in the 2000s. Nowadays, it’s common knowledge that Princess Fiona is also an ogre. Given how prominent her ...

Kathryn Giordano shares a list of many popular films like ‘Shrek’, ‘Jaws’ and ‘Jurassic Park’ that are based on lesser-known ...

In a way, this is a return to the good old days. Hollywood is simply giving the people what they want: grizzled old Jack ...

There’s an aesthetic at play. Cats, coffee, cafes, and a solitary existence brought on by the weight of urbanity.

The way we feel about an accent tells us less about its integral properties and much more about the stereotypes of the people ...

Mikey Madison is the youngest Best Actress Oscar winner in more than a decade, as well (less consequentially) as the youngest ...

Then came the fighters like Mulan, Merida, and Fiona from Shrek (“All the princesses know kung-fu now,” Sophia McDougall sighed in her seismic essay on strong female characters.) There was a ...

It is no coincidence that swamp-dwelling Shrek has a Scottish accent ... Gender can also play a role in accent perception. If a female football manager—though there are currently none in ...

In recent weeks the music of Big Country has played out incessantly in Perth as rehearsals for Restless Natives: The Musical draw to a close.

BETTY Ramsden recalled her time as the first leading lady of MAMA when, with the then Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society, she starred in A Country Girl in 1951. She was teenager Betty ...

Based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire (“Shrek the Musical”), who also wrote ... The Los Angeles-based all-female tap ensemble, whose videos have garnered over 100 million views, was created ...