2001’s A Christmas Carol: The Movie is incredibly misnamed. The ambitious self-proclamation of its title doesn’t come close. It was released theatrically in Britain with only a DVD release in the U.S. It is animated and runs a bit more than an hour. The DVD has an edited beginning and […]
The 1977 A Christmas Carol from the BBC is always a pleasure to watch. There was a time it was very difficult to see in the U.S. It was over twenty years old before I had my first opportunity to view it. It was first broadcast by the BBC […]
Every year I save most of the better versions of A Christmas Carol to view as it gets closer to Christmas Day. Some of them I splurge and watch earlier. It’s inevitable the classic 1951 Scrooge starring Alastair Sim would be on my watch list. I watch my personal DVD […]
Silent Sunday I missed posting this last night (and Saturday too). Even though it is Monday, this counts as the Sunday post. I really like silent movies. I’ve always tried to avoid judging any movie through the lens of the present and understand it by the terms of its own […]
ZogHogg Studios’ A Christmas Carol was released in December of 2018. It’s been available to rent or purchase digitally. This adaptation takes place mostly in Scotland, thus giving us the first live-action Scottish Ebenezer Scrooge. If we want to be nit-picky, the first Scottish Scrooge was the animated character Scrooge […]