Tommy Wirkola's 2013 action-horror dark fantasy, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, brings a more adventurous continuation to the famous German folk fairy tale about the Hansel and Gretel siblings.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a genial riff on the old German fairy tale. The movie nods in the direction of the well-known story—the evil crone, the gingerbread cottage, the oven-bound ...

There are mash-ups -- and there's just mashed. "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" is the latter, a squashed-together mess that tries to cram too many different types of movies into one and instead ...

Creative make-up and costumes, steam punk weaponry, medieval fantasy sets and high flying wire work give “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” its style. The rest comes from its actors – Jeremy ...

Following "Snow White and the Huntsman" as the next revisionist Brothers Grimm fairy tale/action movie hybrid is "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters." Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton play the fully ...

"Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" hunted down $19 million in its opening weekend. Paramount's action film update on the classic fairytale topped the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Pountney, however, enriched the story with Freudian overtones by having Hansel and Gretel’s mother and the witch portrayed by the same singer, and by depicting the children getting lost in a ...

Then the rest of the movie happened. As adults, Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arteton) have decided that one supernatural mishap with a witch was a signal from God to kill every ...

Have you ever thought about what happened to little Hansel and Gretel after they escaped that evil witch’s gingerbread house? Probably not, but Norwegian writer/director Tommy Wirkola did ...

“Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is not a good film — it’s inconsistently acted, and somehow both underwritten and overplotted — but it has some good things going for it. For ...

Campy, violent version of Grimm's fairy tale should entice fanboys. By Stephen Farber Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Film Still - H 2012 Grimm’s fairy tales have captivated TV viewers lately ...