Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 musical film directed by Mel Stuart and based on Roald Dahl's novel Charlie ...

The movie’s songs, written by Neil Hannon, carry you along, though with more rambunctious energy than rapture — at least until you get to the iconic song reprised from “Willy Wonka and the C ...

Whether you're young or old, grew up on the Gene Wilder version of Willy Wonka or the modernized version with Timotheé Chalamet, or even in between the two with Johnny Depp as the great ...

What kid wouldn’t love a trip to a chocolate factory? Well, any kid that saw Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, perhaps. Adapted from one of the most-adapted authors ever, the 1971 film ...

The highly anticipated trailer for the movie Wonka dropped July 11, giving fans a glimpse at the 27-year-old stepping into the ... maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today." ...

I’m a wreck.” “Wonka” is about to become many people’s “grab a tissue” movie. In the fantasy musical, a young Willy Wonka (Chalamet) moves to the big city to open his own chocolate ...

“Wonka” has songs, old and new (the most memorable ... without reproducing its ugliness. The movie skirts some of this simply because it predates Willy’s fame, and maybe by the time the ...

It builds from Roald Dahl's classic 1964 children's book and the subsequent movies adapted from it: 1971's "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" starring Gene Wilder, and 2005's "Charlie and the ...

A new Willy Wonka prequel has landed in cinemas – and ... made the leap across from Paul King’s work on the Paddington movies. She’s best known for her appearances in The Shape of Water ...

The best movies of 2023 include ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Past Lives’ and ‘Poor Things,’ according to our critic Justin Chang. The song pivots when Willy Wonka offers Oompa-Loompa (Hugh Grant ...