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An exceptionally strong cast and a few more twists quickly made you forget the original. Charlie is still too saintly, but Freddie Highmore—who should have garnered an Oscar nomination for his heartbreaking performance in “Finding Neverland,” also starring Johnny Depp (Wonka...
Depp, of course, is the star attraction. If any concerns are raised by the original film, they would have to be Gene Wilder’s deep Wonka imprint on the minds of a generation. Depp manages to take an equally bizarre, but entirely different, take on the character. While...
In “Half-Blood Prince,” Rowling is also at her personal best. The author’s intricate plots have always carried the series, keeping us involved despite sometimes painfully plain prose. This time, the plot gets even better. Her technique works according to Chekhov?...
I also assumed that learning the structure and rules of screenwriting would be easy. Writing without narrative, which is how a screenplay and especially a treatment are done, is more challenging than you could believe. And, I never thought that I would ever face the problem of staring at my...
DAP: He’s an enthralling character. He made a profound improvement in American life by inventing shatterproof lenses—a genuinely huge advance. And he was motivated by essentially noble, and relatively harmless, goals. But he suffered from the problem of hyper-rationalists everywhere—the...