Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen), known for his cruelty, particularly to his employee, Bob Cratchit (Gene Lockhart), is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and learns the meaning of Christmas. This MGM, high-gloss version of the Dickens classic is a long way from its weak, 1935 predecessor. What a difference three
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim), is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and learns the meaning of Christmas. This British, B&W version of the well-known story is generally considered to be the finest version by critics and viewers alike, and I agree. If you’re reading this, chances are you are well
Another version of the Dickens’ story in which cruel Ebenezer Scrooge (Patrick Stewart) learns the meaning of Christmas from three spirits. Quick Review: A garden-variety re-telling of A Christmas Carol, there are no huge mistakes, but also nothing to make it more than average. The sets look a bit too much like a sound stage,
A musical version of the traditional Christmas story where old humbug Ebenezer Scrooge (Kelsey Grammer) learns the true meaning of Christmas from three spirits. Quick Review: With so many version of A Christmas Carol to choose from, I can be discriminating. There’s always another to switch to, and I suggest doing so when this is on.
Magazine publisher Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) arranges for a war hero to stay at his food columnist’s farm in Connecticut during Christmas. The problem is that the columnist, Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck), doesn’t have a farm, or know how to cook. Quick Review: A combination farce and romance with a little wartime patriotism, Christmas in Connecticut
With their daughter, Blair, planning to be gone for the Holidays, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to skip Christmas and go on a cruise. However, the neighbors, led by the dictatorial Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd) are upset by this lack of tradition and start protests. When Blair calls on Christmas
Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) plans an extravagant family Christmas for his wife (Beverly D’Angelo), kids (Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki), parents (John Randolph, Diane Ladd), and in-laws (E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts). But Griswold vacations never go as planned, and one disaster after another occurs, including the arrival of redneck Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid). The word that
Four children, Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell), sent to the country to avoid the blitz, travel through a magical wardrobe to the land of Narnia, where an evil witch (Tilda Swinton) keeps the land in perpetual winter. A prophecy declares that four humans will start the overthrow
A year after Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée were murdered, Eric is brought back from the grave to act as an avenging spirit. However, the city’s crime boss, Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), wants to steal Eric’s power and only police Sergeant Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) can help the ghost. This review is going to
Amy (Ann Carter), the daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed (Kent Smith, Jane Randolph), is a lonely and overly imaginative child. With no friends, she wishes for one, and Irena, the ghost of Oliver’s first wife, appears. Amy also meets an old, pleasant, but mentally unstable neighbor (Julia Dean), who is cared for by a
Efficiency expert Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) is secretly hired to computerize a research department run by the brilliant Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn). As Bunny worries about her boyfriend’s unwillingness to commit and the possible loss of jobs due to the computer, she finds herself drawing closer and closer to Richard. Quick Review: This is a
New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) when terrorists, lead by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), take over the building she works in. It is up to McClane to save his wife and get out alive. There are a lot of action films out there, most with poor acting,