“Cruella,” directed by Craig Gillespie, depicts the early years of “101 Dalmatians” villain Cruella de Vil, the fashion-house tyrant with the two-toned hair and the clothing lines featuring puppy fur.

“Cruella” mixes ’70s fashion, edgy music and its famous Dalmatians in a prequel that would be almost too cruel to miss. Much like its 2014 film “Maleficent,” Disney’s newest live-action follows the ...

In the film's finale, Estella fakes her own death. The Baroness' estate then goes to Cruella. It's a small wonder no one made the connection between the two women or even bothered to ask why exactly ...

It has become de rigueur that almost any movie is in some way a set-up for a sequel. This is all the more true when the movie is already a sequel/prequel/spin-off of a recognisable IP from a hugely ...

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“They sent the script over, and the script wasn’t what I felt that I could excel at,” Gillespie explained. “It was a little bit more straight with the narrative and the drama, and I really wanted to ...

The young Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland) with the black and white hair is immediately adorable. She’s bullied at school and gets in trouble for fighting back. How relatable it is that the bullies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’m not really sure what I was expecting when I sat down in a movie theater for the first time in 14 months. But over the course ...

“Surprise is hard when you’ve been attached to the movie for four years and you’ve seen many different incarnations of the script,” Emma Stone, who starred as the film’s titular character, recently ...

Cruella‘s plot is all over the place, but the sum of its excellently executed parts amounts to a whole that feels like a turning point for Disney. Disney Running time: 134 mins. The film, as current ...

Disney tried to do away with Cruella de Vil as we knew her. She was a deranged and unhinged character who (at least for me) sometimes made 101 Dalmatians too scary to watch as a kid. WARNING: we're ...