This is the worst film since Cats
Posted By: Hazymac, 11/13/2025 9:43:06 AM
Reviewing this perky modern musical take on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with any degree of honesty feels like kicking Tiny Tim down a fire escape. Christmas Karma is a film made with the best intentions by some lovely human beings, but which keeps finding new and spine-twistingly embarrassing ways to fall on its face. The recipient of The Telegraph’s first zero-star film review since Cats in 2019 hails from the same school of indigestible seasonal tat as Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? It is among the worst things to happen to Christmas since King Herod. Its writer and director is Gurinder Chadha, who almost – but doesn’t –
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This is the worst film since Cats
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Reviewing this perky modern musical take on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with any degree of honesty feels like kicking Tiny Tim down a fire escape. Christmas Karma is a film made with the best intentions by some lovely human beings, but which keeps finding new and spine-twistingly embarrassing ways to fall on its face.
The recipient of The Telegraph’s first zero-star film review since Cats in 2019 hails from the same school of indigestible seasonal tat as Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? It is among the worst things to happen to Christmas since King Herod.
Its writer and director is Gurinder Chadha, who almost – but doesn’t –
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-18) offered up a softball pitch to Democrats suddenly clamoring for public transparency regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files. They whiffed worse than the Mighty Casey.
Why? Because it's all a political ploy meant to take down their nemesis, President Donald Trump.
As RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee genuinely thought they finally had Trump cornered when it came to the Epstein files. They released a trove of 20,000 documents from the late sex-trafficker's estate, then honed in on three particular out-of-context emails which, in their minds, showed something nefarious.
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Democrats Are Projecting Their Desires
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Operation “Arctic Frost” was the Biden-Harris Justice Department’s spying campaign against Republicans predicated on the non-crime of objecting to the results of a presidential election. My colleagues at RedState have previously reported on the Arctic Frost scandal.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced Wednesday that "197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith, which extended to more than 400 Republican organizations, including Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association" as part of the operation, targeting 92 Republican individuals or organizations, including eight senators and one congressman.
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The chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, struck a defensive tone in his interview to explain the mess the broadcaster has found itself in. The impression was of an organisation under siege rather than one confidently self-correcting. Mr Shah will be busy. He must find a new director general after Tim Davie resigned. Gone too is the CEO of news, Deborah Turness. Both resigned after an exhausting rightwing campaign which cried bias at every turn and was energised by an absurd transatlantic attempt to paint the BBC as part of a global liberal conspiracy.
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Federal agents in Chicago are facing a nightmare most of us can’t imagine: a violent street gang has literally issued a “shoot-on-sight” order against them. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Latin Kings have targeted immigration enforcement officers working in the city, leading the agency to warn its teams to use “extreme caution.”
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Ms. Harris credited herself with adhering to her own campaign
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“Ultimately, plate tectonic forces play the dominant role in driving continental rifting,” says geologist James Muirhead, senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and lead author of the paper. “However, our study shows that climate plays a key role in modulating the rate
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Shots were fired. Agents’ vehicles were rammed. Bricks and paint cans were thrown at Border Patrol trucks in the Little Village neighborhood during ongoing immigration operations. This isn’t happening in some failed foreign state. It’s happening on American streets.
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