The film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is ten years old this week.
While director Tim Burton’s version of Roald Dahl’s book is definitely a hit-and-miss affair, it undoubtedly contains some of the scariest moments to sneak into a PG film in the past decade.
It’s become quite fashionable to knock Burton (and as someone who sat through his updates of Planet of the Apes and Alice in Wonderland, I’ve not been averse to such activity myself) for his peek behind the Wonka Factory’s curtain, but it is still a film of startlingly great moments, if… Read the full story