No matter how you cut it, The Witches is a really disturbing tale. Not that one should expect anything else from Roald Dahl, but for some ... The 1990 movie adaptation featured the glamorous ...

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully.

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take ...

And it sounds amazing. As reported on 2 October: The movie follows the same plot as the original book: a young boy stumbles upon a secret coven of witches during a seaside holiday. And ...

Many of the characters – from Charlie Bucket to Matilda – created by Roald Dahl ... The Witches. After we’d made it through the book during bedtime storytelling, along came the film ...

Different people know different things about Roald Dahl. You may recall ... of despising (he called The Witches, with Anjelica Huston, a “stupid horror film” and told everyone not to go).

Not every film is a hit This is not the first film to be made based on Roald Dahl’s ... of a storyline than the original had had, Mathison said: “I tried to use Dahl’s dialogue verbatim ...

As most schoolchildren know, the novels of Roald Dahl are whimsical ... skin and green hair. In the original book and in his screenplay for the movie, Dahl described the Oompa-Loompas as "pygmies ...