The new live-action version of Disney’s 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes so far.

The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney’s live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?

Disney isn’t having an easy time. The company has produced flop after flop in recent years, with few exceptions, and has done ...

Players can choose to go through the game as male or ... beard than a dwarf. You wouldn’t think an MMO focused on spaceships, commerce, and conquest would feature a character creator system ...

For a film that helped establish Disney as the media empire it is today, how the 2025 remake has been handled 88 years later ...

Recently leaked concept art from upcoming MCU projects teased a few comic stories and worlds that might make an appearance in ...

A report co-authored by Kings College and the University of Copenhagen found that while male and female politicians face similar online abuse, abuse targeting women was “more severe”, with attacks ...

Okay, we don’t want to say we have favorites, but we might have a soft spot for Marius, the beardy mountain dwarf played ... also being one of the male player character voices in Remnant II.

Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...