The new “Wonka” works considerably better than its reasons for existence would suggest. It exists because, why not? It’s one more brand-familiar origin story, the easiest thing in the movie world to ...

Before there was Elf on a Shelf, looking down on children to punish the bad and reward the good, there was Willy Wonka. In the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and in the film Willy Wonka & ...

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Let me level with you: 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is one of my very favorite films. You know how movie people like to wax poetic about how movies are magic? Willy Wonka & the Chocolate ...

Willy Wonka has been charming children and creeping out adults for over 50 years. Gene Wilder debuted the candyman character in the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." The story was ...

Tom Luddy, who was the executive producer on Norman Mailer’s 1987 film “Tough Guys Don’t Dance,” once said that he gave Mailer notes about “things in the script that make no sense,” but, for most of ...