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Gene Wilder is Willy Wonka in the musical adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel

The original ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, literary adaptation, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/23/2019 Sean Axmaker

“Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination.” Gene Wilder is the weird, wonderful, slightly sinister candy bar king who invites five children into his factory kingdom in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s fantasy. It is a rare breed: an imaginative live-action […]

Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in the classic Mel Brooks comedy

‘Blazing Saddles’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, SVOD 02/08/2018 Sean Axmaker

When singer Frankie Laine was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air many years ago, he confessed that when he was engaged to record the theme song to Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles (1974), he was not told that the film (and the song) was a spoof. He simply thought it was a bad song […]