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Tag: charles dickens
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Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, And How Dickens Invented Christmas
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Christmas is a special time here in RunPee Towers. As well as trying to get the definitive list of Christmas films, non-Christmas Christmas films, and modern takes on an old story, we also have a soft spot for the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. Fortunately, for people like us who are keen to make lists,…
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First View Movie Review – The Muppet Christmas Carol
Maybe itโs a generational thing. I was starting college for the first time whenย The Muppet Showย was first aired. Iโve never seen Sesame Street. Well, not more than the odd clip on TV; enough to be aware of some of the history of the beasts. Throw into the mix the absence of children to have to…
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All About A Christmas Carol
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So Many Retellings Of A Short Story Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinnerโฆ letโs make a Christmas favourite of him! Iโm going to luxuriate in the knowledge that Iโll be talking about a story that is nearly two centuries old and, therefore, will be paying no heed to the usual dread…
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Movie Review – The Man Who Invented Christmas
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This charming little film does a nice job ushering in Christmas time at the theaters. I really don’t know how much of this movie was fact or fiction concerning the character of Charles Dickens. In the movie, one moment he’d be in a screaming rage, and the next, a funny, engaging fellow. I think in…