A Movie from Walt Disney Pictures that comes with a magical re-telling of the beloved tale of Charles Dickens’ — The Disney Christmas Carol, a high-flying, adventure and heartwarming story for the whole family, starring Jim Carrey. The story narrate that when the three ghosts take penny-pinching Scrooge on an eye-opening journey, he discovers the [...]
Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas All of us know the classic story of Dr. Seuss about the Grinch, a green meanie, who wants to stop Christmas from coming to his local neighbor’s, the Who’s. This film version of Ron Howard’s who’s main actor rubber faceman Jim Carrey simply act the role of the story and adds a [...]
160 years ago (1843), Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote one of his most beloved short stories of all time, “A Christmas Carol”. After the born of film early in the twentieth century, several different directors have attempted to capture this famous story written by Charles Dickens, and various actors have portrayed and played the role of [...]
A Christmas Tale This quirky tragicomedy stars Catherine Deneuve as the matriarch of the troubled Vouillard family. When she becomes sick and needs a bone marrow transplant she forces the whole family to come together for Christmas. The problem is: all of the children hate each other. A Christmas Tale is the story of a [...]
Cover via Amazon All of us I’m sure have our own personal favorite Christmas movies, but to me so many of the new movies focus on the trappings of Christmas without dealing with the meaning of Christmas. I loved National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and last years Home for Christmas with Ben Stiller but again they [...]
When Peanuts creator Charles Schultz died in 2000 he made sure that nobody would continue his work and draw new stories for his universe. Funnily he forgot to extend that rule to the field of animated TV specials. Last month, I Want a Dog, was ninth Peanuts special that Warner Home Video with Remastered Deluxe [...]
Today I’m going to review THE most classic holiday story ever put on Christmas DVDs: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. By far the best adaptation of this tale is the 1951 movie Scrooge. It is generally perceived to be the definitive version. You all probably know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge who is known as [...]
For many people Frank Capra‘s It’s A Wonderful Life is one of the top-notch Christmas DVDs, a holiday classic to come back to year after year. No wonder that I found three wonderful reviews to commemorate this timeless piece of art from 1946. Filmed in 1947, this Frank Capra masterpiece debuted in theaters to what [...]