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A Christmas Carol, but which one?
Couch Potato Pickings There are always plenty of movie adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol, to choose from at this time of year, but this one is my personal...
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Couch Potato Pickings | Oliver! A musical movie for the current economic climate
You wouldn’t think it, but this 1968 musical movie with its Dickensian storyline is of surprising relevance today. While you’re singing along (and you know you will) check out how pertinent the song’s...
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Couch Potato is dreaming of a Movie House at Christmas
I might as well have been muttering ‘Bah, humbug!’ to everyone this week. I’ve been a real grump. I’ve not been able to find the festive spirit anywhere, and have been pushed over the edge by...
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Couch Potato Pickings | A Christmas Carol Top 10
For me, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without viewing at least one movie version of A Christmas Carol. You know the story – a miserly grump is visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve and learns the...
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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
Toy Story 3 Child’s play… Woody and co. find they have a new home in the third instalment of the animated franchise – a local daycare centre, where the children run riot and a strawberry-scented bear...
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The Invisible Woman | Film review – Ralph Fiennes & Felicity Jones reveal...
Proving as adept behind as in front of the camera, Ralph Fiennes follows his striking adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, his 2011 directing debut, with a shrewdly intelligent and dramatically...
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