Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston (Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph) has adapted The Twits, the children's novel penned by Roald ...

The Twits (now on Netflix) opens on a halcyonic Disney vibe with swelling strings and choir and then it KABOOFs out of existence like goodness repelled from the room by rancid flatulence. Nice things ...

Director Phil Johnston walks IndieWire through how he took Dahl's nasty book about a nasty couple and molded it into the shape of an animated film. Roald Dahl made his career writing children’s books ...

(L to R): Ryan Lopez as Bubsy, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Beesha, in 'The Twits.' Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025. Roald Dahl is one of those authors whose ...

Director Phil Johnston takes the rough sketch of a spiteful couple who are cruel to animals and even worse to one another and imposes feel-good life lessons and a record number of butt jokes. Those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the start of the film, a merry revel in nastiness seems to be exactly the plan. The action has been moved up to the present day ...

Roald Dahl enthusiasts are eagerly anticipating Netflix's take on the beloved author's 1980 masterpiece, helmed by producer and director Phil Johnston. The animated feature centres on Mr and Mrs Twit, ...

We all know the story of Roald Dahl's The Twits, a couple who is gruesome, grotesque and menacingly maggoty. It's a story you would have had your parents read to you before you went to bed and it's ...

While some young Roald Dahl fans, like me, preferred the cozy creepiness of The Witches or the weird whimsy of James and the Giant Peach, other readers were decidedly Twits kids. They liked that novel ...

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston (Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph) has adapted The Twits, the children’s novel penned by Roald Dahl in the 1980s, into an animated feature set to hit Netflix in 2025.

Margo Martindale and Natalie Portman are among the voice cast for this Phil Johnston-directed version of the beloved author’s ickiest book. By Richard Lawson While some young Roald Dahl fans, like me, ...