32 h. ago So You Think You Can Dance star dead at 46 as family say 'her spirit never dimmed'

So You Think You Can Dance star Donyelle Jones has died aged 46, with her family and friends paying an emotional tribute to the dancer following her battle with cancer

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2 w. ago BRIAN VINER: Is Christmas Karma the worst festive movie of all time?

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

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2 w. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Christmas Karma: This spectacularly dreadful offering will empty cinemas quicker than an outbreak of dysentery!

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

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3 w. ago It made ‘perfect sense’ to make secular festive film – Christmas Karma director

Musical movie Christmas Karma stars The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar as a contemporary Scrooge, called Mr Sood.

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3 w. ago 'As much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog': Eva Longoria, Danny Dyer and Pixie Lott's festive movie is savaged by critics as Bollywood

Christmas Karma, which is directed by Bend It Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha, is a modern musical retelling of A Christmas Carol.

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3 w. ago Pixie Lott stuns in an elegant velvet gown as she leads the arrivals at the London premiere of Christmas Karma two weeks after birth of second child

The singer, who welcomed her second child with her husband Oliver Cheshire just two weeks ago, wore a black velvet gown for the event.

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3 w. ago Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog

Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducingKeen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and keen also to hear from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, this cynically Christmassy movie is leaden, unconvincingly acted and about as welcome as a dead rat in the eggnog. It’s the worst Christmas film since last year’s Red One, in which Dwayne Johnson played the head of security for Santa Claus and more or less had us all rooting for anyone who could beat up Father Christmas.In this one, Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar lifelessly and joylessly plays a Scrooge variant called Mr Sood, part of the Ugandan south Asian community expelled by Idi Amin in his childhood, and embittered by early poverty. An early romance soured because of his obsession with money, and he has become a grasping and unpleasant old guy in London (cue stock footage of the London skyline) in the ra...

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4 w. ago Pixie Lott looks incredible in a peach chiffon dress as she joins Billy Porter at Christmas light switch

Pixie Lott looked radiant as she attended a festive light switch-on at the London Eye on Tuesday evening ahead of the release of her new Christmas movie, Christmas Karma. 

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