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Darker, grown-up Snow White is not for kids
Fairy tale trend comes to big screen with clever, if uneven effort
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Kristen Stewart is pictured in a scene from "Snow White and the Huntsman."
Fairy tales are the new vampires. As the vampire fad fades, a different (notice I didn’t say “new”) cultural trend is taking over: fairy tales made for more mature audiences. “Game of Thrones,” “Grimm” and “Once Upon A Time” are among the hottest shows on television, so Hollywood hopes to cash in on the trend with dozens of reworked fairy tales.