A Christmas Carol
Movie Review: Spirited
"Spirited" could become a movie to put on over the years as background viewing as it’s funny and moving, and a reminder that Dickens’ story still has pull.
Ten Alternative Christmas Movies
If you’re getting your holiday movie lineup together you’re probably selecting from the canon of mandatory yuletide films. Sure they’re good, but when Die Hard is America’s number one Christmas movie, well, we have clearly crossed a line in our definition of “Christmas” movie. It now includes movies that aren’t about Christmas but merely have Christmas in them – songs, snow, deco...[Read More]
The Many Faces of Ebenezer Scrooge: A History of A Christmas Carol on Film
Charles Dickens enjoyed great popularity in his lifetime, and that popularity hasn’t waned to this day. Despite an incredibly prolific assortment of characters and stories, which have been adapted to stage and screen over the years, perhaps the most iconic of them all (and certainly one of the most quotable) has proven to be Ebenezer Scrooge and A Christmas Carol. Though Dickens wrote other storie...[Read More]