Unconquered Peaks

The festive period brings many things, presents, spending time with family and the age-old question, what is the best Christmas film? As you may have guessed from the title, I’m here to inform you that it is indeed a Muppet’s Christmas Carol. Now this may inspire some outrage, how could I stray from the classics like Love Actually, Home Alone and Elf? Let me explain; Muppet’s Christmas Carol is vastly superior in spreading the Christmas message, is (mostly) faithful to the book and period it represents, and if this doesn’t convince you, who can say no to a tiny baby Kermit?

Like many other musical theatre fans, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of the Wicked movie, an adaptation of the musical of the same name (itself an adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel ‘Wicked; the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West’, which itself derives from 1939 MGM film the ‘Wizard of Oz’, a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel ‘the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’)