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...Christmas cheer is late again....
...And so we finally get to the action, with the Carvers besieged by living figurines and Christmas motifs turned flesh-and-blood....
...arrives in cinemas with producers DC, and by extension Warner Bros, already pitching it as the last outing for the title character; the multiplex equivalent of starting a Boxing Day sale the week before Christmas...
...Like a fractious elderly relative causing havoc at a family Christmas, we shall miss them when they’re gone....
...For our last episode of 2023, we’re bringing you a special discussion on ‘Wonka’, this year’s family Christmas film and a musical extravaganza....
...Miriam Cates and Danny Kruger, co-chairs of the New Conservatives rightwing faction, are other prominent Christians from that cohort who have spoken publicly about their religious beliefs....
...Mass global job cuts at Meta, Twitter, Stripe and other technology giants are bitter news for their staff in Dublin, coming just before Christmas....
...Edward’s flair for topiary and hairdressing make him a local celebrity, but his popularity doesn’t survive the town’s Christmas ball (spiked drinks, spiked boyfriend)....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...“Christmas is also a time for families, and under the Conservatives we do have a record number of them,” Sunak said in the Commons referring to the so-called “five families” of Tory pressure groups on the...
...Still, at a pinch you could call it a Christmas film. Mapping a year in vignettes, we begin in December 1877. Forest trees decorate Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace, dwarfed by the ceilings....
...Among the owners of movie theatres, there will probably be confusion that the supposedly cinema-friendly Netflix gave them this to play over Christmas....
...References to masks and Zoom calls now land like last year’s Christmas cards. But another creative decision proves prophetic....
...Danny Lidgate, of C Lidgate butchers in Holland Park, said high-end butchers were engaged in “Russian roulette” as they waited to see which remaining flocks would sicken and be culled before they were due...
...For example, “a Christmas tree that used to cost a retail price of €100 now costs €150, and people are no longer buying it”....
...In the Indulgence café, run by local independent councillor Danny Brookes, hot breakfasts are off the menu after energy bills soared from £1,500 a month to almost £4,000....
...rock number; there’s a gentle, richly harmonised ensemble number “Appalachian Snowfall”; a wistful duet between young Scrooge and his loving sister, “Three Candles” (delicately sung by Sarah O’Connor and Danny...
...On smaller screens, Danny Boyle’s streaming series Pistol is now telling the tale of the Sex Pistols: fun but danger-free....
...“So far, it’s safe to say that the recession is mostly in people’s minds,” said Danny Bachman, a US economic forecaster at Deloitte....
...Happy reading, a merry Christmas and a happy new year!...
...“For working people in this country it is Labour’s nightmare before Christmas.”...
...I very much enjoyed Danny Leigh’s acerbic review, though I found the twist less irksome than Danny did, while quite agreeing that Harry Styles would have “improved the movie by not being cast at all”....
...As if created on a dare, the project is a Christmas movie of high Englishness with an apocalyptic kicker: Children of Men remade in the style of Richard Curtis, Threads with theme song by Michael Bublé....
...So is moving the rest of her factories to south-east Asia, where she produces Christmas lights. “Demand for non-essential goods such as furniture has [dropped] as Americans get poorer . . ....
...The first was Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast; given it is only February, who knows how many more we will see by Christmas. But the movie spins most of its clichés on their head....
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