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...Someone should have told Tim Burton a long time ago that his days were over. Probably after his “Planet of the Apes” remake, which was, astonishingly, worse than “Gigli.” But with Johnny Depp, a popular Roald Dahl property, and hordes of pseudo-hipster NYU students who love Burton’s “dark, brooding sensibility” and the “amazing production design of ‘Batman,’” it’s no surprise that “Charlie?...
...been writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition is an original illustration by Faith Jaques from the first edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The center's new $11.3 million home is located in Newcastle's once-derelict Ouseburn Valley, a warehouse neighborhood of artists' studios and galleries. Built in a seven-story Victorian mill, the rejuvenated building's top floor features a gigantic, child-friendly loft...
...been writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition is an original illustration by Faith Jaques from the first edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
...best example of this are the new improved Oompa Loompas. Managing to stick to Roald Dahl’s back story without hitting on the potential racism of the book’s portrait, we are treated to an army of itty bitty people, all digitally depicted by Deep Roy. Though Roy’s facial expressions and personality suit the Loompas, it is their new sense of harmony that really sings...
Thus was an obsession born. For Willy, all chocolate is bittersweet. So he builds the world's largest candy factory and manages it in a way that could be described as presumptively eccentric. As a backstory for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that is, shall we say, a serviceable invention. The same might be said of Tim Burton's new movie adaptation of this apparently unstoppable media property. It's all right without being particularly riveting...