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Category: Holiday Movies
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Christmas Classic First Watch Review – White Christmas (1954)
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Iโve never been one to make any undue effort and, in a similar vein, I donโt like to waste any effort accidentally made. When I had my moment of confusion over Holiday Inn and White Christmas the obvious thing, to me, was to save the notes Iโd made and use them in another review. And…
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Christmas Classic First Watch Review – Holiday Inn (1942)
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Iโll admit to being a bit confused by Holiday Inn. I intended to see the film with the song White Christmas in it and, obviously went for the one called White Christmas. Now I knew that Bing Crosby sang White Christmas but I was also fairly confident that Fred Astaire was in it. OhโฆI love…
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Christmas Classic Rewatch Review – Scrooge (1951)
Elsewhere I wrote about how and why A Christmas Carol was written and how itโs been adapted many times on screens both large and small. Itโs the most often adapted of all of Dickensโ works, with over thirty film outings. Oliver Twist comes second with a mere eighteen.ย Itโs been faithfully followed from the original,…
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Christmas Documentary Review – โTwas The Fight Before Christmas (2021)
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โTwas The Fight Before Christmas (2021) from Apple TV+ is another of those films that emphasises the difference between the USA and the UK. Over here weโre only vaguely religious in the main. By that I mean that when you go into hospital they always ask your religion. The majority will say C of E…
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Non-Christmas Christmas Movies – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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It seems odd, looking back on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from this side of the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — that it was touch and go whether or not Robert Downey Jr would get the lead role of Harry Lockhart. At the time, RDJ was considered to be quite toxic Robert…
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Christmas Movie Rewatch – Nativity!
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Ah, Nativity! My wife doesnโt watch a lot of films but she watched and enjoyed this one. She does work in a primary school so there may have been some resonance for her there. I thought Iโd give it a look because of the fine array of talent connected to it and, I thought, it…
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Christmas Classic Rewatch Review – Die Hard 2
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Time, itโs a bugger, isnโt it. Die Hard 2 came out about five years agoโฆ in 1990! After a sit down with a nice hot cup of tea and a biscuit, nothing too excitingโฆ a rich tea or a plain digestive, it does dawn on you that itโs now over thirty years old. When we…
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Indie Movie Review –ย Crappy Motherโs Day
You only need to see the title –ย Crappy Motherโs Dayย – and you know that this film is aiming at being a comedy. Now Iโve spent in excess of six decades on this planet and know that, just because a film or TV programme describes itself as a comedy, that is no guarantee of there being…
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GHD Indie Movie Review –ย The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things
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The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things is the latest addition to the Groundhog Day time loop sub-genre so thereโs a certain amount of stuff that is known from the start; the protagonist is experiencing one day over and over again. Having realised what is happening, they learn to live with the situation by learning whatโs…
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New Years Movie Rewatch Review – Bridget Jonesโs Diary
Back in the mid to late nineties there was a publishing phenomenonโฆ Helen Fielding had written a faux diary about a thirty-something singleton called Bridget Jones. Bridget Jonesโs Diaryย wentย on to become what The Guardian named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century. Inevitably, it was snapped up to become the…