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Roald Dahl

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35 days ago

41 days ago

‘You just believe’: why Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is my feelgood movie ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their mood-lifting watches is a travel back to 1971 for the definitive Roald Dahl adaptation

There are some days when the only thing that can lift your…

54 days ago

The Twits review – Americanised Roald Dahl is gruesome in all the wrong ways ⊖⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Netflix’s animation mangles and sentimentalises Dahl’s black comedy about a gross and detestable married couple – relocating the action to Texas and introducing a plucky orphan heroine

This animated N…

67 days ago

‘I am quite tough’: Schindler’s List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia’s final days ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

After starring in Mad Men, Californication, Spider-Man and Junebug, Davidtz soured on acting. Now she’s directed – and starred in – a powerful debut film

Born in the US, raised in apartheid-era South …

3 months ago

Tim Minchin looks back: ‘Entertainers say we want to change the world, but really we just enjoy being clapped’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The comedian on his sickly childhood, what made him leave his home town and his Matilda-induced anxiety

Born in 1975 in Northampton and raised in Perth, Australia, Tim Minchin is a musician, comedian,…

5 months ago

6 months ago

Carry On star Julian Holloway's will is revealed as supermodel daughter Sophie Dahl is left a fraction of his sizeable fortune

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Sophie Dahl, 47, was born from a brief romance between Holloway and Tessa Dahl - the daughter of bestselling author Roald Dahl - in 1977.

7 months ago

Dark side of Roald Dahl: Author's anti-semitic views laid bare in blistering new play that serves as a reminder that the beloved author could be a cheat and a monster too

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Roald Dahl 's reputation as one of the great children's storytellers is undeniable - yet the darker aspects of the author's worldview, reflected in the West End play Giant, have become barely less no…

Funny, shocking and thought-provoking: John Lithgow's towering performance brings the big unfriendly giant who was Roald Dahl back to life in the West End

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Anyone familiar with Roald Dahl 's beloved children's story The BFG will know that not all giants are Big and Friendly. Not least this enormously tall, hugely imaginative, massively successful giant …

Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Conti plays twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of the other’s murder, in this dreamy but frustrating fable

Simon Perry’s elusive, lugubrious, faintly bizarre psychodrama from 1977, based on a nov…

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