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Tag: holiday movies
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Rewatch Review – The Man Who Invented Christmas
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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 Christmasย tells the story of some of those fashions. When Dickens wroteย A Christmas Carolย there wasnโt really a…
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Christmas Indie Movie Review โ Middleton Christmas
Middleton Christmas — or Thereโll Always Be Christmas — as itโs 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 itโs 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 โ Cup Of Cheer
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Cup Of Cheerย is, allegedly, a comedy. There are moments of incongruity, surprise, repetition, inversion, exaggeration, and slapstick. Thereโs only one thing missing and that, sadly, is anything remotely funny. It is supposed to be a parody of the archetypal, traditional Christmas film.ย Cup Of Cheerย starts with a big city journalist, Mary (Storm Steenson) being sent to…
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Rewatch Review – Love Actually (A Brit Perspective)
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 ofย Love Actually was mentioned, especially a British take on the film. This took me a little by surprise, as I canโt help thinking that anything written by…
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Indie Movie Review – Derelicts
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Films likeย Derelicts do make me worry for the friends that Iโve 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
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
It’s that time of year again, when you can’t walk around in stores without hearing thatย Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer,ย how mommy kissed Santa Claus, or that sadย Last Christmas song by WHAM!ย 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
Old Christmas TV specials can be downright bizarre. I grew up watching the animated cartoons likeย Frosty the Snowman and The Grinch, and eagerly lapped up the clay stop-motions like Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, andย The Year Without a Santa Claus. Joyous holiday fun, right? Yes. And no. They’re enjoyable shorts, but as an adult I’m…