In the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Gene Wilder plays Willy Wonka as both whimsical and meticulous, but also with a side of sadistic evil. If one were to start listing the ...

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 ...

Syrupy sentimentality is the order of the day, absent any of the unnerving weirdness that Wilder and Stuart brought to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Chalamet’s entrepreneur is simply a ...

Are you ready to enter a world filled with imagination? Well, if you are, you’re in luck as Netflix has announced a scrumdiddlyumptious new reality competition series, The Golden Ticket ...

Where did the smiling but kind of sadistic and creepy and manipulative and exploitative Willy Wonka come from? Do we care? Maybe there IS a story here, but with “Wonka,” we get an ...

Childhoods were made or broken by Mel Stuart’s 1971 Roald Dahl adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder’s irreverent, eclectic iteration of the elusive chocolatier was as ...

Younger, sweeter and significantly less weird than his prior screen incarnations, the latest Willy Wonka — played by Timothée Chalamet — sets off on his adventure with a dream and a smile.

Just *** small group of people defying the laws of gravity. Ladies and gentlemen of the gallery Gourmet name is Willy Wonka. He's good, too good. Pretty sure I've gained about £150 in the last ...

And long before he was the world’s best-known chocolatier and distributor of life-changing golden tickets, William “Willy” Wonka was just a twentysomething kid with a top hat, a sweet tooth ...