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SATURDAY MARCH 30

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Extra nuts, weird flavour

TVNZ 2, 7pm

Timothée Chalamet might be the third Willy Wonka but for a slightly older generation Johnny Depp will forever be the loopy tophatted chocolatier in what was director Tim Burton’s second-biggest film. But Depp’s mannered wacky candy man remains an acquired taste, as does Burton making the factory a lysergic psychedelic wonderland. (2005)

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