Beauty and the Beast is one of those stories that refuses to fade quietly into the background. It lingers, reshapes itself, and reappears in new forms every few decades, as if daring each generation to try and improve on it. Cinema, naturally, has taken that challenge personally, producing a long line of adaptations that range…
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Beastly (2011) – Review
There’s a special kind of confidence required to take one of the most durable fairy tales ever told and run it through a 2011 teen drama filter, complete with glossy lighting, questionable tattoos, and emotional beats that feel like they were focus-grouped by people who think irony is a personality trait. Beastly tries to drag…