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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
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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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The Railway Children, and great lines from movies
Couch Potato Pickings Whenever I see that a screen adaptation of E Nesbit’s Railway Children is showing on TV (and let’s face it, today’s film and the 2000 TV remake are on a lot), I just can’t resist screaming out … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Cribbins, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, E Nesbit, ET, Finding Neverland, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gary Warren, Gone With the Wind, Jenny Agutter, Jerry Maguire, Sally Thomsett, Scrooge, Sense & Sensibility, The Elephant Man, The English Patient, The Railway Children, The Wizard of Oz, Watership Down, When Harry Met Sally
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Bad Santa
Couch Potato Pickings Here’s an outrageous movie for everyone battling with an inner Scrooge right now. Apparently Larry (Curb Your Enthusiasm) David was considered for the lead role in this movie. How great would that have been? Test your knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Santa, billy bob thornton, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Scrooge
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