As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the ...
Robert Zemeckis's (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1983 children's book The Witches is good in many ways, but it is sadly lacking in one important area.
Our depictions of witches have gotten considerably more sophisticated in the century-plus since then. Witches were the central characters of feature films in the 1920s, but it wasn’t until the late ...
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 reason this story about a group of grotesquely disfigured ...
That’s right, witches: the film will be available to rent on Premium Video On Demand (PVOD) in the UK from participating digital retailers. And it sounds amazing. As reported on 2 October ...
Now, granted creative access to another of Roald Dahl’s best-loved, if more contentious books – 1983’s The Witches – the NT must be hoping it has struck gold with its little-expense-spared ...
Perhaps, in the squeamish spirit of the times, the Royal Court Theatre in London should have put on two versions of “Giant”, a blistering new play about Roald Dahl—one that quoted his ...
New editions of classic 20th century children’s books by British author Roald Dahl – such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and Fantastic Mr.
The Witch’s House is back at Cogges Manor Farm and this year is inspired by Roald Dahl’s strange stories. Spooktacular sights and sounds, gloriumptious treats, disgusterous trails and trickery make ...