Like many other people, my most-loved film as a child was The Little Mermaid. Whenever Ariel was on screen, I would sing along with blind enthusiasm until my vocal chords — what's the word? — burned.

“I don’t understand why people don’t like Ursula. I agree that she is evil, but still, Ariel signed the contract.” This was the first sentence a TikTok creator’s grandmother said in a now-viral ...

When Walt Disney was looking for inspiration to create some of his earliest animated features, the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale "The Little Mermaid" caught his attention. The project was ...

McCarthy fell hard for the outrageously coiffed, half-octopus sea witch of the 1989 Disney animated original while working as a nanny for two VHS-obsessed children. "I've seen 'The Little Mermaid' ...

Villainy in media has always been connected with groups, cultures and behaviors that are considered outside “the norm” of society, and since the early days of cinema, this has often taken the form of ...