Tag: Roald Dahl

Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Is Fun Treat at The Fox

Posted: March 10, 2022 at 5:37 pm   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the beloved children’s book that spawned two feature-length films (with a new one on the way), is now a musical currently touring the country. The new stage adaptation brings the novel to life with songs from the 1971 classic starring Gene Wilder (“The Candy Man,” “I’ve Got a […]

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Film Review: “The BFG” Starring Mark Rylance and Ruby Barnhill

Posted: July 1, 2016 at 1:01 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews, Reviews

If you ask the question “What is the BFG?” to two different generations, there’s a good chance you’re going to get two very different responses. Growing up in the 90’s as a computer gamer, my first reaction when I heard the title of the movie harkened back to my days of playing DOOM and Quake […]

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Posted: November 25, 2009 at 12:01 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Wes Anderson returns to the screen with a film that fits into his little world only this time with a bunch of talking animals from the wonderful fable by Roald Dahl. Mr. Fox was always a daring individual, and stole live stock for a living before he met Mrs. Fox and was planning on having […]

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More Fantastic Mr. Fox Pictures, from USA Today

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 2:20 pm   /   Local, Movie News

I love Wes Anderson, easily one of my top 5 favorite directors, and I can’t wait to see what he does with his first feature length foray into stop motion animation. The images we have seen so far are gorgeous and everything we are hearing is that we should expect a Wes Anderson film, and […]

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