If you missed The Muppet Christmas Carol or Bad Santa, today is the day to check them out. It’s difficult to imagine two more different movies, but each in their own way provides a heavy dose of seasonal spirit. Christmas Carol starts at 5 p.m., Santa at 7:15.
While you might not think of The Apartment as a Christmas movie, most of the film occurs between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Besides it’s one of the best films ever made, regardless of the time of year. Jack Lemmon stars as C.C. “Bud” Baxter, a worker bee […]
Trading Places may not be the first movie you think of during Christmas, though it happens at this time of the year. Two elderly gazilllionaires, Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche), make a wager for “the usual amount”: Is heredity or environment more important in […]
Originally posted on The Focused Filmographer:
Hi everyone! It’s December 25th! You know what that means! CHRISTMAS!!! (and eggnog…and presents…and eggnog…and…) :D Just a quick post today to wish each and every one of you a wonderful day. Enjoy the holiday as we take time to reflect and…
While many movie versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol seek to follow the novel closely and recreate a slice of early Victorian England, Scrooged (1988) is set in the 1980s and speaks directly to that era. The hippies of the Summer of Love had become the Thirtysomething […]
Bad Santa (2003, 91 min.) is very naughty, but it isn’t bad. While it treads the well-worn path of pointing out the commercialization of Christmas and the hypocrisy of many who celebrate it, Bad Santa adds a freshness to the seasonal critique genre. For those who haven’t seen […]
Seriously, is there anything better than movie theatre popcorn? We don’t think so either so there will be genuine movie popcorn available at all the movies in the Christmas series. We’re working on some other fun snacks as well…stay tuned!
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All you can take with you is that which you give away. A man finds out what the world would have been like if he’d never been born in… It’s a hell of a day. It’s Christmas eve and George Bailey…
There are tons of funny and heartwarming moments in Elf, but this one makes me laugh every time. Part of it is self-recognition I think. We all have those moments when we’re super-charged up and enthusiastic over something others think is no big deal. Or maybe that’s just […]
Originally posted on It Rains… You Get Wet:
I promise just because Peter Travers went and ranked every Bond film, which I reacted to it, I’m not planning on making a Versus Rolling Stone article a regular thing. Really. That is, just as soon as I clear up one itsy-bitsy…