Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

While Amy's away, Paul welcomes writer-director BenDavid Grabinski for a Critics’ Choice celebrating The Muppet Movie. Together they revisit Jim Henson’s big-screen breakthrough, exploring how its blend of heartfelt storytelling, meta Hollywood satire, groundbreaking puppetry, an ...  Show more

Paul and Amy unwrap Gremlins, Joe Dante’s delightfully chaotic holiday classic that proved cute can turn catastrophic in the blink of an eye. They trace the film’s journey from Chris Columbus’s much darker original script to Spielberg’s Amblin-produced crowd-pleaser, and unpack t ...  Show more

This week on The Cine-Files Steve and John are joined by voice over actor, Yuri Lowenthal to discuss the 1971 children's classic Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecine-files/message Sup ...  Show more

We’ve got a golden ticket. And we’re capping off our Summer of Seventies with a world of pure imagination. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory takes us on a colorful ride that shows us just how chocolate it takes to rouse the living dead and apparently kill the newly living. Are ...  Show more

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory turned 50 this week so we're re-releasing our podcast from 4 years ago as a celebration of this subversive dark comedy, made even darker the more you think about it. Pop a gobstopper, take a trip down the chocolate river, and enjoy the podcas ...  Show more

There are different versions of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory exploits, but all of them involve strange things happening to children who misbehave. But from a biological standpoint, what does that look like? Dr. Sydnee and Justin discuss the strange science going on at Wonka ...