Tag: Matilda
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‘Matilda’ Wasn’t Afraid To Make Kids Sad — And That’s Why It’s a Classic
If you loved 1996’s Matilda — wore out the VHS tape, stared too hard at glasses of water hoping to make them fall — chances are you identified with its lead character just a bit too much. Adapted from a classic children’s book by Roald Dahl, the screen version of the story has become, at…
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Netflix’s The Twits Director, Writer, First Look, Plot, And More Info
The world is never a nice place in the stories of Roald Dahl. Across the beloved British author’s vast body of literature, one will find works about abusive caretakers, sadistic authority figures, and horrible fantasy characters itching to do harm to children. Just as often, though, his tales center on courageous kids and kindly adults…
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Another Roald Dahl Classic Hits Netflix’s Top 10 Ahead Of Henry Sugar’s Arrival
Netflix typically refuses to release its actual viewership numbers to the public, making its weekly top-10 lists a fascinating peek into how streaming services actually operate. Netflix may pour millions into their original programs, but their ten most popular films or TV tend to (at least partly) be 25-year-old movies experiencing a seemingly random renaissance.…
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Paul Reubens Was So Much More Than Pee-Wee Herman
The late, great Paul Reubens completely changed the landscape of comedy with his character of Pee-wee Herman, becoming one of the handful of celebrities like Jim “Ernest P. Worrell” Varney, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson, and Glenn “Divine” Milstead who become synonymous with their most famous roles. Honestly, there were probably a lot of people who learned…
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Streaming: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical and the best adaptations of classic children’s books
The latest all-singing version of Matilda, now on Netflix, joins an impressive library of thoughtful film versions of seminal kids’ books, from Paddington to KesThe common wisdom that “the book is usually better than the film” is as true of children’s literature as of its adult counterpart: cinema is stacked with adaptations of children’s classics…
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Casting Society honours work on ‘Banshees,’ ‘Matilda,’ ‘Fabelmans’
Special awards go to the UK’s United Agents and late German casting director Simone Bar.Casting directors from Matilda The Musical, The Banshees Of Inisherin and The Fabelmans were among winners of the 38th Annual Artios Awards, presented by the Casting Society (CSA) at ceremonies in Los Angeles, New York and London on Thursday (March 9).Matilda’s…
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“The Stage Show Would Make for a Terrible Film if I Were to Directly Translate It”: Matthew Warchus on Matilda the Musical
An Olivier Award-winning success in the West End and a Tony Award-winning one on Broadway, the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda now arrives as a toe-tapping motion picture, with addictive song-and-dance numbers meant to be streamed over and over again. The key plot details from Dahl’s book (and Danny Devito’s 1996 crack at the…
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical Cast and Character Guide
Directed by Matthew Warchus, Matilda the Musical is the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of the Olivier and Tony award-winning musical of the same name, written by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin. The movie and stage musical are based on the book Matilda by Roald Dahl, originally published in 1988, and the movie-musical has been pegged for…