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3 best Netflix shows and movies I'd watch this weekend (Oct 17–19, 2025)

Netflix has dropped a fresh batch of movies and shows ahead of the weekend, including "The Perfect Neighbor," "The Twits," and more.

Tom’s Guide

A House of Dynamite to The Twits: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller is dazzling and almost unbearably tense, and Roald Dahl’s wicked couple come to life … with plenty of fart gags

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The Twits: Natalie Portman ‘excited’ to be part of a film her children can enjoy

The Oscar-winning actress voices a magical creature in the Netflix adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic.

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The Twits voice actor says UK family were ‘shocked’ she had not heard of book

Canadian actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan voices Beesha, one of the protagonists of the new film.

Evening Standard

Emilia Clarke says Netflix’s Twits adaptation ‘speaks to the world we live in’

Clarke’s character, a bed bug who lives in Mr Twit’s beard, is the film’s narrator.

Evening Standard

5 top new movies to stream this week on Netflix, Prime Video and more (Oct. 14-20)

This week sees the streaming debut of several new movies, including "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey," "Our Fault" and Netflix's "The Twits."

Tom’s Guide

David Byrne found it ‘fun’ to write music for upcoming movie The Twits

In a chat with film magazine Variety, musician David Byrne revealed why he found it “fun” to write music for upcoming movie The Twits.

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Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind

The Guardian - UK

Roald Dahl’s The Twits is coming to Netflix in 2025

This isn’t Netflix’s first Dahl project, the streaming service has also released Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical in 2022

Evening Standard

OPINION - Censoring children’s books is an insult to their intelligence

AS so often, Roald Dahl (unexpurgated) put it best. In The Twits, prior to its bowdlerisation by Puffin Books, he observed of Mrs Twit: “Have you ever seen a woman with an uglier face than that? I doubt it. But the funny thing is that Mrs Twit wasn’t born ugly.…

Evening Standard

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

Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral

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