If a movie isn’t going to do your kids any good, why let them watch it? Just to kill a Saturday afternoon? That shows a subtle kind of contempt for a child’s mind, I think. All of this is preface to a simple statement: “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” is probably the...
What the Oscar-nominated documentary “Super Size Me” was to the fast-food industry, “ThatSugar Film” endeavors to be for businesses that are invested in refined sugar, a nearly unavoidable additive in the majority of processed edibles on grocery shelves. In fact, the claim is made that ...
His deception is blown, to everyone’s great disappointment, when the fat, short and lean ones all turn into mean ones and declare war. Leading a team of other animals, Mr. Fox starts tunneling like the heroes of “The Great Escape” — but in, rather than out. These adventures provide...
The family at the center of the animated movie “The Willoughbys” is not a happy one. Father and Mother (voiced byMartin ShortandJane Krakowski, respectively) love each other very much, but that affection does not extend to their children, Tim (Will Forte), Jane (Alessia Cara) and twins...
Frank N. Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” or the lateGene Wilder’s title performance in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” (The latter seems to have been what Waititi and company were going for in casting Goldblum: when Thor is introduced to Sakaar, “Pure Imagination...
three-and-and-a-half stars, four stars and one to no stars. We will also be re-activating our Letters To The Editor column to make it easier to carry on a discussion in one place, though our comments boards will continue to remain in full operation. Let the great moviediscourse continu...
[Damon] Gameau himself also shows a penchant for walking about in neon yellow or orange underpants during his medical check-ups. It’s all very cute, but if you want sugar-drenched whimsy, why not indulge in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” instead?
Like the hero of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” also based on one of his books, the creatures of Dahl’s valley seem to know more than they’re letting on; perhaps even secrets we don’t much want to know. Children, especially, will find things they don’t understand, and...
“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” to the predictably groovyBruce Campbellweekend (pictured above, I’m the guy in the frog shirt), to the sold-out screening of “Mean Girls” (not to brag but that was my idea). To sweeten the deal, I had two other drive-ins nearly as close...