Fairytale

Kew Gardens features a hidden magical door in the winning book for this year’s £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize.Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson was voted the winner by Waterstones booksellers. The book “is a spellbinding triumph that will make children fall in love with the world they are reading about, and with reading itself,” said Bea Carvalho, head of books at Waterstones.The book follows Daisy as she searches for her missing mother and discovers another world behind a hidden doorway in…

Millie Bobby Brown is essentially Netflix’s bread and butter — the modern version of a studio system star who’s become the face of the streamer, for better and for worse. After Stranger Things and Enola Holmes, their latest collaboration comes in the form of the defiant fantasy adventure film Damsel, directed by the Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, written by Fast X scribe Dan Mazeau, and executive produced by Brown herself. The 20-year-old plays Elodie, daughter of a lord forced to marry a prince to save her family’s…

The first season of the new year brings a fairytale theme to Call of Duty Mobile. Call of Duty's latest blog post details what players can expect for Season 1, including folklore-themed operator skins and weapon blueprints, a brand-new battle pass, and more.Call of Duty Mobile Season 1: Soldier's Tale arrives on January 10 at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET. This new season includes a brand-new battle pass with 50 tiers of free and premium items, including new operator skins, weapon blueprints, CoD Points, and various…

The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” has been a left-field Christmas classic since Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl first sang it in 1987, but this year — three weeks after MacGowan’s death (and 23 years since MacColl’s) — the song feels more maudlin. The Libertines recently gave the song a couple of performances in tribute. In the first, the group’s Pete Doherty and Carl Barât recorded a typically free-wheeling performance and posted it to Instagram, leaning deep into the tune’s natural sodden sentimentality.…

Proceeds from the seven-inch vinyl will benefit Dublin Simon Community, an organization fighting homelessness, which the late frontman supported The Pogues are reissuing their drunk tank Christmas classic, “Fairytale of New York,” on seven-inch vinyl with proceeds benefiting a charity long supported by late frontman Shane MacGowan.  The new seven-inch is available to pre-order now, and £6 (about $7.50) from each sale will be donated to the Dublin Simon Community, which works to end and prevent…

A reading from the book of Shane MacGowan:It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tankAn old man said to me, “Won’t see another one”And then he sang a song: “The Rare Old Mountain Dew”I turned my face away and dreamed about youHave you ever heard a better opening to a song than that one, from “Fairytale of New York” by MacGowan’s Irish folk-punk band, the Pogues? In just four lines, he’s drawn an indelible scene with lifelike characters rooted in a specific cultural context facing high emotional stakes; all of a sudden,…

Song became a surprising Christmas staple thanks, in part, to the singers' dramatic performance Nobody in the history of music ever sounded quite as decadently downtrodden (or whiskey-drowned, -sodden) as Shane MacGowan on “Fairytale of New York,” the soppy Christmas carol the Pogues‘ first released as a single in 1987. But as the luck of the Irish would have it, Kirsty MacColl was fortuitously available to take the piss right out of him. When he sings, “I could have been someone,” she rejoins with…

Disney celebrates its centenary with a grimly cynical marketing exercise wrapped in the sparkly cloak of an escapist animated fairytale. Chris Buck’s film unfolds in a utopian kingdom ruled by a sorcerer monarch named Magnifico (Chris Pine). Understanding that hopes and dreams are a potential source of discontent in his populace, Magnifico confiscates the dearest wishes of his people and keeps them safe, very occasionally deigning to grant one. Teenager Asha (Ariana DeBose) realises that stripping the people of their…

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 100 years of creating timeless magic is at the core of Wish, its latest feature now playing in theaters.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&Dio9 recently sat down with Wish directors Fawn Veerasunthorn and Chris Buck to talk about the animation company’s effort to pay homage to everyone that came before and will continue Disney’s legacy, in a story that draws on the origins of the very wishes that brought the studio to life. The film, written by Jennifer Lee (Frozen) and…

"Fairytale of South Philly," which plays on the seasonal classic "Fairytale of New York," will appear on the Philadelphia Eagles‘ upcoming holiday album The Philadelphia Eagles are putting their competitive edge aside in the name of the holiday spirit. For the team’s upcoming holiday album, Eagles center Jason Kelce recorded a duet with his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and noted boyfriend) Travis Kelce. “Fairytale of South Phily,” which plays on the Pogues holiday classic “Fairytale of New…