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Matilda stars reunite to celebrate film's 30th anniversary

Some stars of 1996's Matilda reunited in London to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary.

BANG Premier · 4h ago

Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy

English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a sitcom feel

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2025

Freeform Announced Its Halloween Lineup For October, But I'm Really Confused By One Movie's Inclusion

One Spooky Season lineup choice has me puzzled.

Cinemablend · Sep 2, 2025

Stacey Solomon shares makeover malfunction and jokes she 'looks like Miss Trunchbull'

The Loose Women panellist, 33, was experimenting with her hair and decided to tie her locks up into a tight bun

Daily Mirror · Feb 26, 2023

Five awful things Roald Dahl wrote in his children's books as Rishi Sunak slams changes

Many of Roald Dahl's famous children's books are being re-written to cut out inappropriate phrases - but as Rishi Sunak joins those condemning the re-write, just how bad were the books?

Daily Mirror · Feb 20, 2023

Roald Dahl's Matilda never gets old and now is a perfect time for it

THIS world-renowned children’s novel originally published in 1988 has gone through various equally whimsical and heartwarming iterations, from the…

The National (Scotland) · Jan 29, 2023

Mum who couldn't fit in kitchen and spent £5k on takeaways sheds 14 stone

"They always used to compare me to Dawn French and anyone big, like Miss Trunchbull or Bruce Bogtrotter."

Liverpool Echo · Jan 14, 2023

How Emma Thompson made a ‘shocking’ transformation for ‘Matilda the Musical’

Actor says it was ‘a really massive challenge’ to change her look and become the brutish, formidable headmistress Trunchbull.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 28, 2022

Inside the biggest change Netflix made to 'Matilda the Musical'

The final four minutes of "Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical" are, in a way, both a new ending and a new beginning. The villainous Miss Trunchbull is no longer the school headmistress; the dim-witted Wormwoods are no longer Matilda's parents.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 27, 2022

Movie review: 'Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical' charms despite a villain requiring much suspension of disbelief

It isn't Matilda's absurdly lousy parents.

Tribune News Service · Dec 22, 2022