The Princess Blog

In the digital age, fewer and fewer people are going out to the movies because it's so easy to access everything from home on streaming media. To remedy this,  Fathom Events  tries to appeal to our childhood nostalgia with exclusive re-release events for movies that we love. This year, it seems like theaters have been particularly focused on bringing back our favorite princesses. Seeing an older movie in theaters is different from seeing something new . People already know exactly what to expect and what they love about it. They go for the experience of seeing it again on a big screen in a dark theater, surrounded by fans who love it as much as they do. The next princess movie making its return to theaters is the 1987 classic  The Princess Bride . The movie is coming back to celebrate its 30th anniversary on as a Fathom Event presented by TCM Big Screen Classics . It will be back in theaters on the 15th and 18th of this month. The Princess Bride  was not a part...

Let's take a moment to talk about princes. Why princes? Because they never really had a chance. At their best, they are seen as a coveted accessory for princesses, and at their worst, they are seen as promoting unhealthy sexist ideals to vulnerable children that women are unable to take care of themselves. Because of the latter setback, princes have gotten the short end of the stick in recent animated movies, whether it's being portrayed as useless in Brave , evil in Frozen , or completely nonexistent in Moana . Sadly, Disney had just started to improve their prince formula around the time that this brutal take-down of chivalry took place. Why can't we have the best of both worlds? The reason for the lack of developed male characters in animated films hearkens back to the very first one, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Initially, the nameless Prince was supposed to be a much more important character.  Most of his scenes were cut from the film  because the studio had so ...