When he asks, “How would they like to be suddenly unemployed?” they start singing “Heatwave!” in hastily donned beach gear.In ...

Michael Caine would seem like an unlikely Ebenezer Scrooge, but the man nailed it in The Muppet Christmas Carol, delivering what many consider the best version of the character ever, up there with ...

I’m partial to one early on when Bob Cratchit (played by Kermit the Frog) and his bookkeeper rat colleagues are trying to convince Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) to put more coal on the office ...

Another problem is that as good as Michael Caine is–and the movie would be unwatchable without him–he's never as bloodless as we need a good Scrooge to be. The adaptation's swift arc and the ...