Scrooge's mandate from the spirits - keep Christmas in your heart all year round - also happens to be a business plan for John Svenson and Tom Baldwin, operators of two distinct retail chains that traffic almost exclusively in holiday merchandise. The Svenson...

I could live in Christmas all year long, and mostly do. For me Christmas is not so much a time of year as a state of mind, an atmosphere, which I love to visit at any time. Most people seem to sulk their...

There is an indication of Anderson's attitude right at the beginning of Every Day Except Christmas; it is affectionately dedicated to several of the Covent Garden porters whose twelve hours of work from midnight to mid-day are the subject of the film. The key word is affectionately. Personally I would never have used such a word; for me it has too many avuncular, dutiful associations. But Anderson gives it new associations and justifies his use of it by the film that follows. He approaches his heroes...