Willy Wonka existed in popular culture long before his introduction in “Wonka.” The audience’s first introduction to his character was through Roald Dahl’s 1964 best-seller “Charlie and the Chocolate...
It has become quite clear that Emerald Fennell has a passion for the fiercely provocative. Judging by her past work on the second season of “Killing Eve” and her 2020 film debut, “Promising Young...
Despite selling more than 180 million copies worldwide, the beloved children’s book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians has had a tough time making it off the page and onto the screen. The first attempted...
“May December” is not a movie for the faint of heart. More a character study than anything else, the film hones in on the inner lives and relationships of its three leading characters: actress Elizabeth...
I initially had high hopes for the latest installment of “The Hunger Games” film franchise, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Set 64 years before the first “Hunger Games” movie, the prequel...
Anthony Wiles, Contributing Writer
• November 10, 2023
Set in the bustling yet tense climate of 1920s Oklahoma oil country, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is based on a nonfiction book of the same title, which tells the stories of the...
Within the first few minutes of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” it’s clear that we are watching a different version of the show. It begins with a montage not unlike the one at the beginning of Pixar’s...
While The Observer seems to want to encourage Case Western Reserve University students to go out and see as much of the community as possible, sometimes you can’t avoid staying in. The pull of the sofa...
I was somewhat familiar with the story of the infamous King Henry VIII prior to hearing about “SIX: The Musical,” whether it was from a passing mention of the Protestant Reformation in history class...
From even the first few minutes of “Bottoms,” Emma Seligman’s raunchy high school comedy, it’s clear that we are in a universe slightly different than our own. In Seligman’s world, a parody of...
