This month a couple of classic tales get the big screen treatment. You probably read THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ or GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES at bedtime when you were little. I’m sure you know the story of Dorothy and Sleeping Beauty backwards and forwards. This May, both stories get a makeover with Legends of Oz, the next chapter in Dorothy’s adventures, and Maleficent, the timeless tale of Sleeping Beauty told from the villain’s perspective.

In Theaters

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
Cast: Lea Michele, Kelsey Grammer, Dan Aykroyd
Directors: Will Finn, Dan St. Pierre
Distributor: Clarius Entertainment
MPAA Rating: PG
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Based on: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum

Maleficent
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley
Director: Robert Stromberg
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
MPAA Rating: PG
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Based on: GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES by The Brothers Grimm

Maleficent explores the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turned her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king's newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora (Elle Fanning) is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.

On TV

"Labyrinth" (TV Miniseries)
Cast: Jessica Brown-Findlay, John Hurt, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Vanessa Kirby
Network: CW
Release Date: May 22 and 23, 2014
Based on: THE LABYRINTH by Kate Mosse

In Carcassonne, France, in the year 1209, 17-year-old Alaïs (Jessica Brown-Findlay, “Downton Abbey,” “Misfits”), is given a mysterious book by her father; a book which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alaïs cannot understand the book’s strange words and labyrinth symbols, her father instructs her to protect the book no matter what happens to him. Alaïs realizes that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe. Eight centuries later, at an archeological dig in the French Pyrenees, a young volunteer named Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby, “The Hour,” “Great Expectations”) discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realizes she’s disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past --- Alice’s own past –-- has been revealed.