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"I'll always remember seeing the Canadian Brass perform together with the Mendelssohn Choir at Roy Thomson Hall on Christmas.

Opening this week: 2012 and Pirate Radio. * A Christmas Carol - Lionel Barrymore.

There are seemingly hundreds of cinematic takes on Charles Dickens' tale. The most popular, year after year among our customers, are the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, the 1984 version starring George C. Scott and TNT's 1999 adaptation with Patrick Stewart.

My favorite film adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim.

Every generation may get the "Christmas Carol'' it deserves, from the all-dancing, all-singing horrors of "Scrooge'' to the brash comic mugging of "Scrooged'' to the sleaze of the recent "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.'' How does Jim Carrey fit into this? The early 2000s are a time of relentless technical whizbangery - if Dickens were alive, he'd ...

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash? While Zemeckis loves Alastair Sim's 1951 'A Christmas Carol,' he said previous adaptations never captured the full impact of Dickens' ...

Release Date: Nov 06, 2009; Rated: PG ; Length: 105 Minutes; Genres: Animation , Fantasy ; With: Jim Carrey ; Image credit: Disney RATTLE AND HUMBUG Jim Carrey as both the Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge in Disney's A Christmas Carol When I was a kid, gathering around the TV set to watch one of the old movie adaptations of A Christmas Carol ...

Charles Dickens' classic character Ebenezer Scrooge, the mean ill-tempered and miserly protagonist of 'A Christmas Carol', is being reprised on screen by Hollywood funnyman Jim Carrey in his latest outing.

Getting Scrooged: Special effects overshadow story, characters in Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' CAROL CLING MORE COLUMNS Review "A Christmas Carol" 96 minutes PG; scary sequences and images Grade: C at multiple locations; in 3-D and IMAX 3-D at select locations Deja View From Mickey Mouse to Mr.

Scrooge has been very generous to Hollywood, but every movie made about the cranky old cheapskate also has to give something back.

Remember this: Though we've seen umpteen films of the Scrooge saga, Charles Dickens wrote the book 50 years before movies even existed.

Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott.

Anarchy rules in this enjoyable update of the 1954 Ealing comedy The Belles of St.

"Don't you think I make a remarkable queen?" inquires Rupert Everett midway through "St. Trinian's," a stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls' boarding school.