Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. The 'damsel in distress' trope is a common female character archetype, in which a ...

The Super Mario Bros Movie officially arrives in theaters tomorrow, some of us at The Escapist have already bought our tickets, and we’re basically hyped out of our minds for it. To build that hype ...

Is the princess in another castle? Not this time, folks! Wanting to place a fresh spin on longstanding tradition, the filmmakers behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie — opening in theaters everywhere ...

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo opened up about the fantasy film written by Dan Mazeau and how it flips the typical damsel-in-distress fare with Brown’s ...

In my earliest memories of Princess Peach, she is less a video game character than an elusive goal. I must have been 5 or 6 when my parents got my siblings and me a Nintendo for Christmas: old enough ...

Set on the campus of a former women’s college now overrun with lunkhead Roman-frat boys, Whit Stillman’s comeback comedy Damsels in Distress is wobbly and borderline twee, but it deepens as it goes ...