Reginald Owen News

Let's see. America is pulling out of a recession. The military-industrial complex is humming along.

English novelist Charles John Huffman Dickens, went by Charles Dickens while he became England's most popular, and probably its greatest novelist.

Sixty-five years ago, on December 14, 1944 , movie theater audiences first viewed the now-classic equestrian film known as National Velvet .

OK, so I'm a Scrooge junkie. I have every film adaptation made of the 1843 Dickens Classic "A Christmas Carol." I watch them during the holidays and sometimes in July.

Turner Classic Movies will be devoting the first four Thursdays of December to Christmas movies, starting tomorrow night, December 3rd.

Four more Sherlock Holmes! And in keeping with the occasion, the first one is rather a turkey-certainly the worst Holmes I've seen to date.

The Hallmark Theater Presents -ready tale of Scrooge is almost universal: A God's-eye view of your life allows you to see how you became such a horrible person, how much people don't like you, and, eventually, how unloved you'll be after death.

Halloween was less than a week ago and we're already being haunted by spirits of Christmas Yet to Come.

The problem with "A Christ mas Carol," in its latest film re telling, is that too much Carrey and Zemeckis eventually over shadows Dickens.

Ebenezer Scrooge has been haunting the holiday season ever since Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was published in 1843 and the miserly old geezer has also been "bah humbug-ing" the big screen for decades.

Here are e-mails I mostly agree with: The Bogart "The Maltese Falcon" was the THIRD version of that story put on film and undoubtedly the best.

I had to laugh when LOVE ON THE RUN started with an establishing shot of London...by coincidence, six of the last eight films I've watched have been set in London.