Itdebuted during the cable television and VHS cassette boom of the mid-1980s, when over 70 percent of homes in the U.S. had video recorders and upwards of 50 million families subscribed to basic cable. Many cult films from this era developed out of narrow viewing options, before the age ...
Growing up, Halle Bailey was obsessed with “The Little Mermaid,” wearing out her family’s VHS tape watching and rewatching the 1989 Disney animated hit and pretending to be Ariel every time she went swimming. “Her sense of longing, her searching for herself, was something that I could ...