As an explosion of algorithm-powered ‘pretty’ trends takes over, Otegha Uwagba explores the burgeoning rise of something ...

A father shares heartfelt advice with his daughter on dealing with bullies, emphasising courage, kindness, and the strength ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty.

Rebekka (Anna Dahl Torp), left, fits her daughter Elvira (Lea Myren) with a medieval nose job protector in "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --The Ugly Stepsister, which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, embraces the darkness of the original Cinderella fairy tale. The Norwegian film ramps ...

At Sundance this year, it is writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister,” which is like if Fargeat’s film got smashed together with Cinderella, a bit of Yorgos Lanthimos’ ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Turns out beauty really is pain. Entertainment Critic Entertainment Critic [email protected] Got a ti ...

If you go to enough film festivals and seek out the horror offerings therein, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll come across some rather extreme new visions. Far from the more mainstream ...

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The Ugly Stepsister dissects the Cinderella narrative — most pointedly by wondering how the ’ugly’ sister would feel about the beloved Cinderella-esque Agnes — but the writer-director and ...

(Have a look at those horror-ceiling-shattering Oscar nominations, for one.) “The Ugly Stepsister” begins with the tragically forced communion of two families as the brace-faced, ringleted ...

who makes her gruesome entrée into that movement with her playfully grotesque feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister.” One character’s name being Sophie von Kronenberg in this stylized gothic retelling of ...