While “Sugar” begins in the same vein as many of its predecessors, it quickly becomes apparent that what we’re watching is something special. Detective stories are older than television itself, and with series like “True Detective” and “Perry Mason” what this genre needs to survive is something wholly unique, whether that be character arcs or … Read more
PLOT: Wes Anderson directs an all-star collection of short films based on the work of Roald Dahl. REVIEW: What exactly is Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar? When the famed director was first linked with this Netflix adaptation, everyone assumed he would be making a feature, but that’s not what this is. It’s … Read more
Wes Anderson teases his other Roald Dahl short films which will be released on Netflix after The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Wes Anderson has returned to the world of Roald Dahl with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a short film set to debut on Netflix later this month, but it isn’t the only … Read more
Director Wes Anderson and author Roald Dahl: A match made in fanciful and extremely symmetrical cinematic heaven. Anderson already adapted Dahl’s novel Fantastic Mr. Fox into an extremely charming stop-motion animated movie. Now Anderson is turning four Dahl stories into a quadrilogy of short films for Netflix, with the first — The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar — premiering … Read more
It’s not animated—the actors are live-action and are a familiar and reliable bunch. Ralph Fiennes plays a version of Dahl; the movie opens in an Andersonian recreation of the writer’s real-life “writing hut,” where, after mumbling a list of what it takes to get him started on a story, Fiennes starts telling what purports to … Read more
Wes Anderson has shared a first look at The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. This upcoming short film will be 37 minutes long and is based on the short story by Roald Dahl. Anderson, director of recent movies like Asteroid City, The French Dispatch, and Isle of Dogs, writes, directs, and produces this adventure comedy … Read more