When I was a kid, before graduating to books by authors like Stephen King and Clive Barker, I was an avid reader of Roald Dahl novels. Dahl’s books for children are full of the marvelous and macabre, ...

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, ...

I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar ...

Only one horror film has ever terrorised me so completely that I didn’t sleep at all the night after watching it. It’s at number 37 on the top 50 below, which is an attempt to sort almost 130 years of ...

While some young Roald Dahl fans, like me, preferred the cozy creepiness of The Witches or the weird whimsy of James and the Giant Peach, other readers were decidedly Twits kids. They liked that novel ...

Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images (Dahl), filo/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (camera) Forty-five years after first introducing kids and big kids alike to the wonders of Hugtight glue, bird ...

As big studios hunt for the next big franchise - or even film and TV universe - the estates of long-dead authors have started to gain renewed interest, writes Adam Maguire.

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Netflix is previewing The Twits ahead of the animated feature's arrival on the streamer Oct. 17. The film takes its inspiration from the Roald Dahl children's book and follows "the ...

The stories of Roald Dahl are filled with terrible adults, and the author’s two worst grownups got their very own novel. Now they’re getting their very own movie from Netflix. The first trailer for ...

Margo Martindale arrives for the the SAG Awards in 2019. She is among the voice cast members of "The Twits." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Oct. 6 (UPI) --Netflix is previewing The Twits ahead of the ...

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 ...

Director Phil Johnston takes the rough sketch of a spiteful couple who are cruel to animals and even worse to one another and imposes feel-good life lessons and a record number of butt jokes. Those ...