When it comes to princess songs, there’s no bigger name in the game than Alan Menken. That’s why Skydance Animation turned to the legendary eight-time Oscar winner to write music for and score its sweeping new animated musical “Spellbound.” In the film, streaming now on Netflix, Rachel Zegler stars as Princess Ellian, a teenager who […]

Rachel Zegler enchants the new Netflix film “Spellbound” as the voice of Princess Ellian, a teenage royal with a fierce mission: break the curse that has transformed her parents into monsters. But for Zegler, the film’s heart lies far beyond fantasy. At the movie’s New York premiere earlier this month, Zegler talked about how “Spellbound” […]

The kid’s gonna be fine. It’s the parents who are not all right in “Spellbound,” a straight-to-Netflix computer-animated fairy tale with a smart concept (what’s a girl to do when her home life is shattered?) and its heart in the right place. If only the movie were transparent about its premise from the outset, as […]