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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 isn’t all he seems. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Adrian Brody, avatar, Charles Dickens, Get Him to the Greek, How to Train Your Dragon, Iron Man 2, Jaden Smith, Jim Carrey, Martin Freeman, Nativity!, Predators, Robert Downey Jr, Robin Hood, russell brand, Russell Crowe, The Karate Kid, Titanic, toy story 3
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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 errors of his ways. … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV, Seasonal
Tagged a beautiful day, a carol christmas, A Christmas Carol, a christmas carol - the musical, Albert Finney, alistair sim, an all dogs christmas carol, Bill Murray, Charles Dickens, ebenezer scrooge, Father Christmas, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, kelsey grammer, Michael Caine, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Stewart, Richard E Grant, saskia reeves, Scrooge, scrooge - a christmas carol, scrooged, simon callow, thank you very much, the muppet christmas carol, the muppets, tiny tim, tori spelling, what if?
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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 unexpected Secret Santa demands … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, cinema for Crystal Palace, Scrooge
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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 messages are within today’s economic climate: Oliver! … Continue reading
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Tagged business communciations, Charles Dickens, childhood obesity, Credit crunch, economic climate, Fine Life, Food Glorious Food, Mamma Mia, Mark Lester, Michael Jackson, Oliver!, Oom Pah Pah, recession, redundancy, street theft, Who Will Buy?, You've Got to Pick a Pocket of Two
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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 favourite. On Channel 4 today at 6.45pm
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Patrick Stewart, Richard E Grant
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