This film shows a young woman training to perform as a mermaid at Weeki Wachee, a Florida water park founded by Newton Perry (1908–87) after World War II. To differentiate Weeki Wachee from other ...

Mermaids are as much a staple of cinema history as they are mainstays of fairy tales and folklore. Movies throughout the decades have been mesmerized with the presence of these ...

Another summer, another Disney release. And this time it’s a reimagining of the movie that kicked off the Disney Renaissance, The Little Mermaid. But the ensuing mermaid craze obviously didn’t come ...