In 1996’s Matilda, as well as in the novel and the musical, Matilda’s main power is telekinesis.Her powers first materialize when she becomes angered at the injustice of Miss Trunchbull’s ...

Carrie and Matilda are both famous and beloved films in their own right. Carrie is a staple in the horror genre and continues ...

Now on Netflix, "Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical" is just the blast of wicked fun we need right now to see out the old year and welcome in the new. She’s no ordinary child this Matilda Wormwood.

After a reign of terror, Miss Trunchbull is finally defeated thanks to Matilda's powers. In both the book and the movie, Matilda uses her telekinesis to manipulate a piece of chalk, writing on the ...

It isn’t Matilda’s absurdly lousy parents. It isn’t even the girl’s telekinesis. What makes “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” hard to buy into — at least for an adult largely ...

In “Matilda,” as in Stephen King’s “Carrie,” a bookish, abused, and neglected girl asserts her own empowerment against the brawny bullies of the world using her brains (via telekinesis ...

Before Harry Potter rocked the world with his lightning-bolt scar, there was Roald Dahl’s Matilda, a put-upon child with an uncanny intellect—and the power of telekinesis. Matilda the Musical, which ...

Based on a novel by Roald Dahl, “Matilda the Musical” centers on a young girl who loves reading, helps the adults in her life through obstacles, and possesses the troubling gift of telekinesis ...