
the curmudgeonly movie lover’s unpleasant Advent calendar: December 15
All the tinsel too bright and cheery? Click or tap for some holiday anti-cheer!

All the tinsel too bright and cheery? Click or tap for some holiday anti-cheer!
I bet Morgan Freeman would be awesome as Scrooge…
The Online Film Critics Society, in our weekly survey, this week picked our favorite Christmas movies. It’s a Wonderful Life came out on top — as some of you may know, I am not a fan of It’s a Wonderful Life. My top five Christmas favorites, as I voted the OFCS survey: A Christmas Story … more…
In fact, Dickens might have written something like Scrooged, an 80s, greed-isn’t-good update of the Dickens classic. The wittiest satire of television since Network, Scrooged gives us Frank Cross (Bill Murray: cradle, rushmore), the ‘youngest president in the history of television,’ the maniacal — and megalomanaical — head of the IBC TV network.