Remember when children's stories were full of scary giants who'd grind your bones to bake their bread and witches who built houses out of gingerbread for the express purpose of luring little children ...

More sweet-natured than soaring, the Tim Burton-directed “Dumbo” never completely takes flight, but it doesn’t descend into a tailspin either. It has some undeniably magical moments, but how many of ...

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As the movie says, most people have seen a horsefly, a dragonfly and even a housefly. And most moviegoers have seen an elephant fly, especially if they saw the original 1941 Walt Disney animated ...

The key image in Walt Disney’s 1941 “Dumbo” is something out of a fairy-tale daydream: Dumbo, the baby elephant with long-lashed goo-goo eyes, a cuddly grin, and ears as long and floppy as wings, ...

Disney’s new ‘live-action’ remake of Dumbo is weird. And unlike the original animated film, this time the weirdness isn’t a good thing. It all starts off decently enough. The world of Medici’s Circus ...