Was chilling in the hotel room on my first night in Yellowknife. Just watched SCROOGED and thought I’d follow it up with another Christmas movie on the television. I shouldn’t have bothered. This CGI version of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a disappointment, not that I’m surprised. It’s not that it is a bad movie, it is a pretty run of the mill, animated kids film, something that back in the day we would have called a “straight to…
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Scrooged 1988
A number years ago, my mother-in-law was staying with us at our house. One day, she asked, “Where do you do your ironing?” I paused, looked at her and responded, “Well, typically, in a hotel room the night before a meeting. If you want to know where our iron is, that’s a different question.” That little story has absolutely nothing to do with SCROOGED, other than that I am watching the movie on television, in a hotel room in Yellowknife,…
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