Ever popular at Christmastime (and as a GCSE text) is the thoroughly uplifting, so, so familiar story of greedy, grasping, cold-hearted Scrooge and his sudden, spirited overnight transformation into t ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Blitz (November 1, 2024) Cert 12A, 120 mins. In cinemas (Apple TV from the 22nd) Steve McQueen tells the story of the Blitz from the point of view of one fictitious, but symbolic ...
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Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Wonka (December 8, 2023) Cert PG, 116 mins. If anyone other than Paul King were behind this prequel to the 1971 and 2005 adaptations of Roald Dahl story Willy Wonka and the Choco ...
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