5 posts tagged ‘roald dahl’
Wonka's Surprisingly Sweet Box Office Helped Cure Warner's Aquaman Blues
Gizmodo,
We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers—especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant’s Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothée Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit. Read more...
The Empty Magic of “Wonka”
The New Yorker,
The prequel to the Roald Dahl classic has little interest in the art and industry of its hero—or in the untapped talents of its star, Timothée Chalamet.
The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies
AV Club,
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) is not what one might call a conventional filmmaker, crafting his films with deadpan line delivery that enhances the surreal quality of their premises to lay bare fundamental truths of the human experience. His previous collaboration with… Read more...
The week in film: Ridley Scott's movies ranked, Best Actress contenders revealed
It’s been nearly five decades since Ridley Scott’s first feature film, The Duellists, hit theaters, and now, even well into his 80s, the legendary filmmaker shows no signs of slowing. Napoleon, his latest feature, is as grand and intense as anything else in his long career, and it demonstrates just how adept Scott… Read more...
Fantastic Mr. Fox is the best Thanksgiving movie
Thanksgiving gets totally bulldozed by Christmas, doesn’t it? There are certainly far fewer shows and movies to watch to get in the spirit of the thing. Sure, we’ve got some Thanksgiving episodes and a handful of films explicitly or tangentially about the holiday, including the beloved-but-dated classic Planes, Trains… Read more...