There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

Matilda (2016)

Suggested by Faye and Maaike in a discussion at work and watched on netflix

A delightfully odd film, that despite being based on a Roald Dahl book, still somewhat surprises with it's vicious cruelty.

Kids are launched into the air by their pig tails, cats are booted great distances and the big bad is treated to a nasty psychological and physical torment that despite how much she deserves it is still shocking.

Mara Wilson projects just the right amount of sadness that stops her from coming across as an elitist prick (the film has very low opinions of television and never questions how trashy books can be) and Rhea Perlman, largely wasted in a one note role manages to inject a huge amount of pathos in her final line of the movie.