In George Clooney's film The Tender Bar (2021):
The setting is a bar called The Dickens, where the protagonist learns life lessons as he grows up, goes to Yale, falls in love, graduates, and drives off Hollywood to take up a career as a writer.
A Dickens reference in The New Yorker on December 27, 2021 on page 57:
Sing, Muses; tell a tale of self-made chaps,
Of Wemmicks, Wopsles, clerks, aspiring actors,
And orphans pulled up by their own bootstraps
(Granted, with help from crooked benefactors).
In the film The Unsuspected (1947):
One character asks, "Is he happy?"
Another character replies, "As happy as Oliver Twist getting a second helping."
In The New Yorker on March 7, 2022:
Features an article of a new book about Dickens and Bleak House
You can read the article here: The Crisis That Nearly Cost Charles Dickens His Career | The New Yorker
