Roald Dahl signing books in Amsterdam in 1988. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. “A little magic can take you a long way.” No line written by Roald Dahl is quoted more than the above. Alas, I’m not sure he ...

The story, beautifully, and, one trusts, uncontroversially, adapted by Tom Wells, will be familiar to many (but was not to me) begins in an orphanage where Sophie and Kimberley bicker about dreams and ...

‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ director Phil Johnston conjures enough offbeat charm to make this new dip into the author’s canon a solid if basic family film. Roald Dahl is one of those authors whose ...

The Twits (now on Netflix) opens on a halcyonic Disney vibe with swelling strings and choir and then it KABOOFs out of existence like goodness repelled from the room by rancid flatulence. Nice things ...

Director Phil Johnston walks IndieWire through how he took Dahl's nasty book about a nasty couple and molded it into the shape of an animated film. Roald Dahl made his career writing children’s books ...

Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...

After Netflix bought the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2021, it seemed like the next logical step was for the streamer to milk every last drop of nostalgia from its new cash cow, leaving it a desiccated ...

Margo Martindale and Natalie Portman are among the voice cast for this Phil Johnston-directed version of the beloved author’s ickiest book. By Richard Lawson While some young Roald Dahl fans, like me, ...

Roald Dahl was my favorite author growing up. I didn’t know what a prick he was at the time. Dahl described the world as a wretched place where dreams go to die, largely because of great big jerks ...

Known as one of the most talented modern writers, and possibly the greatest children’s author in history, Roald Dahl’s works have met great praise and criticism over the years. Although whimsical and ...

But the movie — directed and co-written by Phil Johnston, a writer on Wreck-it Ralph and Zootopia and co-director of Ralph Breaks the Internet — likely isn’t what any Dahl aficionado was expecting. It ...