Here we have it, ladies and gentlemen – the best so far of the new wave of live-action fairy tale adaptations. This isn’t to say that fantasy actioner Snow White and the Huntsman doesn’t have its flaws, but visually it’s so sumptuous, and its magical scenes so breathtaking, that you can overlook a good chunk of the film’s many plot …

While that other Snow White film gets ready to enchant families across the globe with some sickeningly sweet humour and design, the other Snow White film that is coming out this year looks set to be a more thrilling, darker version of the original fairy tale. Which means that it is far more faithful, because the original print story is …

Years of writing about gritty reboots, watching violent genre films and being a rather cynical human being have left me quite jaded. So you can only imagine how nauseatingly sick I feel right now after having watched the latest, whimsical trailer for Mirror Mirror, yet another take on the Snow White fable. Directed by Immortals’ Tarsem Singh, Mirror Mirror is supposed to be a lighter, family friendly version of the classic …