holiday movies Archives

Rewatch Review – The Man Who Invented Christmas

December 13, 2020

A lot of what we now think of as Christmas traditions going back centuries actually started out as little more than whims of fashion — many of which are less than two hundred years old. The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the story of some of those fashions. When Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol there wasn’t really a […]

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RunPee Weekly Newsletter 30th edition (December 9th, 2020)

December 9, 2020

The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. New Movie Review – Half Brothers A really great new movie in the theaters: Half Brothers exceeded expectations, especially since the trailers didn’t show you the depth of the movie. There was a lot […]

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Christmas Indie Movie Review – Middleton Christmas

December 8, 2020

Middleton Christmas — or There’ll Always Be Christmas — as it’s sometimes now called is, I will be blunt, not my cup of tea. It might have appealed to my mother were she still alive, so maybe it’s a generational thing. She might have overlooked the things that irked me, but I found them too […]

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Christmas Indie Movie Review – Cup Of Cheer

December 7, 2020

Cup Of Cheer is, allegedly, a comedy. There are moments of incongruity, surprise, repetition, inversion, exaggeration, and slapstick. There’s only one thing missing and that, sadly, is anything remotely funny. It is supposed to be a parody of the archetypal, traditional Christmas film. Cup Of Cheer starts with a big city journalist, Mary (Storm Steenson) being sent to […]

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Rewatch Review – Love Actually (A Brit Perspective)

December 2, 2020

Back in October we were talking about articles for the run up to Christmas (yes, this stuff is all actually planned!) and the idea of a rewatch review of Love Actually was mentioned, especially a British take on the film. This took me a little by surprise, as I can’t help thinking that anything written by […]

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Indie Movie Review – Derelicts

November 23, 2020

Films like Derelicts do make me worry for the friends that I’ve made over in the USA. More so than just the chance of them being shot by someone claiming to be defending his right to walk around bristling with weaponry, or catching something relatively treatable and being bankrupted. I worry that, over in the States, […]

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Movie Review – Carol of the Bells

February 20, 2020

Carol of the Bells is a lot like a Hallmark Christmas movie, and I don’t mean this in a good way. You could see the seams in the acting and directing transitions, and it didn’t come across as a polished story. That said, Andrea F. Friedman, the actress with Down’s Syndrome, stole the show […]

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A Merry Movie Christmas – The RunPee Family’s Favorite Holiday Films

December 7, 2018

It’s that time of year again, when you can’t walk around in stores without hearing that Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, how mommy kissed Santa Claus, or that sad Last Christmas song by WHAM! In other words, ’tis the season to pay lip service to the holidays. (Ouch. I sound like a Grinch. Let me start again.) […]

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The Weirdest Moments in Classic Christmas Specials

December 6, 2018

Old Christmas TV specials can be downright bizarre. I grew up watching the animated cartoons like Frosty the Snowman and The Grinch, and eagerly lapped up the clay stop-motions like Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, and The Year Without a Santa Claus. Joyous holiday fun, right? Yes. And no. They’re enjoyable shorts, but as an adult I’m […]

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