"Let us tell an old story anew," begins the voiceover that accompanies Maleficent, and although that's an appealing notion on its face, it's one with which modern moviegoers have become overly acquainted in recent years; if you've set foot in a cineplex lately, you know they're all stuffed with reboots, remakes, sequels, and reimaginings, and Disney's latest live-action effort falls squarely into the latter camp, offering a revisionist take on Sleeping Beauty that purports to tell the tale of just how, exactly, that nasty old witch ended up cursing an innocent baby to fall in

Like it or not, the old-fashioned two-dimensional villain is a thing of the past -- and the studio that helped define that archetype for several generations of filmgoers is now actively helping to shatter it with movies like Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie as the witch who infamously ruined Sleeping Beauty's christening with a curse.