It's been 55 years since her big-screen debut in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but we all remember Maleficent: red lips, twisted horns, and green flames. She's the self-proclaimed Mistress of All Evil ...

So, why do we now like our villains so complicated? "I had wings once … but they were stolen from me," says Maleficent in the trailer for the upcoming Disney release of the same name.

How timely. As Prince Phillip (not that one), in this month’s megabucks Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (sequel to 2014’s Maleficent), the breakout Brit is about to be seared into the romantic fantasies ...