Starring Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens. Rated PG. This modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast for the Twilight generation is so concerned about appearances that even its title creature has a ...

A recent behind-the-scenes featurette shed some light on how Beastly, a teenage update on the Beauty and the Beast story, will approach its source material. CBS Films has released a new trailer for ...

Beastly nearly succeeds at hiding all of its woes behind its comedic exterior. Unfortunately, the film has a devastatingly pretentious beginning and an unwieldy message. This modern day reimagining of ...

Rich brat Kyle is handsome on the outside, ugly on the inside — until one day he makes the mistake of publicly humiliating a high-school Goth girl whose interest in witchcraft isn’t a pose. And ...

Witchy Kendra gives him one year to counteract the spell by finding someone who loves him, in spite of his new look. If he fails, he’ll be stuck that way forever. In the book, Kyle was saddled with ...

Honestly, Twilight has ruined everything. Once upon a time, fairytales were quite content to simply be fairytales. Not now, though – thanks to Twilight, they've all got to be turned into dimwitted ...

Romantic youth fantasy. Starring Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer and Mary-Kate Olsen. Directed by Daniel Barnz. (PG-13. 86 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) A sweet film - a modern riff on "Beauty and ...