Wes Anderson Evolves Signature Style in Four Netflix Short Films | Features

“The Ratcatcher” has Richard Ayoade guiding us through a strange encounter with a rat hunter (Ralph Fiennes) who knows the ugly truth about rats. It concludes with an added, morbid note that Anderson includes featuring a character named “Ole Jimmy” from a different Dahl short story from the same collection, Rummins.  Dahl wrote many shorts, but … Read more

Wes Anderson Brings Roald Dahl’s ‘Henry Sugar’ to Netflix

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

Wes Anderson gives his position on Roald Dahl’s edited works

Wes Anderson premieres The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and expresses his disagreement over the censoring of Roald Dahl’s works. Wes Anderson has dabbled in children’s storytelling with his films The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs. His comedic style and quirky aesthetics naturally lend themselves to stop-motion animation. Anderson now enters the strange … Read more

Netflix Sets Theatrical Release Dates for Pain Hustlers, New Wes Anderson Movie

Netflix has finally revealed the theatrical release dates for the upcoming films Pain Hustlers and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. What are the Pain Hustlers and The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar release dates? Alongside a variety of other release dates, Netflix announced that Pain Hustlers will release in select theaters on Friday, October … Read more

High Drama in the Skies in Wes Craven’s Entertaining Thriller

Wes Craven slowed his roll somewhat in the later years of his directing career, periodically returning to the Scream series and dabbling in other genre fare now and again. In 2005 he helmed two movies. One was the aptly named Cursed, which for various reasons, stunk out the place. The other was a taut thriller … Read more

Wes Anderson Shares The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar First Look

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

Wes Anderson Movies Ranked

The quirky comedy Asteroid City is about to hit cinemas. We decided to rank all of Wes Anderson’s movies. Where do your favorite fall? Since his first film, Writer/Director Wes Anderson has become known for his highly visual combination of bright colors with an older aesthetic. His costuming and set design have a very specific … Read more

Wes Anderson’s Most Bizarre Movie

You always know when you’re watching a Wes Anderson picture. Even if you don’t know what movie you’re watching, if it has a symmetrical composition, a saturated color palette, and smooth camera movements, you’re watching a Wes Anderson movie. Asteroid City is him doing his thing. A sci-fi romantic drama about a Junior Stargazer convention … Read more

Wes Anderson and Bill Murray Will Continue Working Together Despite Allegations

Wes Anderson recently defended acting legend Bill Murray after the actor had a handful of harassment accusations made against him. Wes Anderson considers Bill Murray a part of his family Speaking to IndieWire, Anderson — who has a longstanding relationship with the actor — recently said that he has an “extensive” history with Bill, and … Read more