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 [...]
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia: It’s a very sunny Christmas A special Christmas episode of the It’s always sunny in Philadelphia sitcom. For those of you who don’t know the series: it is very raunchy. Maybe you have seen this NSFW clip where Danny DeVito emerges naked out of a leather couch. But this Christmas [...]
A quick overview of some of the most important family Christmas DVDs for 2009.
Image via Wikipedia Today I’d like to talk about one of the Christmas DVDs that I personally don’t like very much. Nevertheless it’s a holiday classic. In the mid-30s a new trend occurred: Laurel and Hardy were put in fantasy, medieval, musical film. Many fans complain about today, because these genres were too “abstract” for [...]
The Santa Clause is one of the most beautiful Christmas DVDs of our time. The movie tells the story of newly divorced Scott Calvin who spends Christmas Eve with his son. Suddenly there’s a ruble on the roof and Calvin goes to see, who’s making such a noise. There’s Santa Claus himself, however, he falls [...]
Cover of Scrooged Charles Dickens‘ Christmas Carol is one of the most adapted-to-film-books of all time. There are good adaptations (The Muppet Christmas Carol) and there are bad examples (too many)! Here we have a very weird version of this Christmas tale. Scrooged an action-packed Christmas Comedy. And, oh wonder: It works! Scrooged tells the [...]
Cover of Elf [Blu-ray] One of the biggest surprises in 2003 was without a doubt Elf which I wanted to classify as a trivial and silly children’s film. Here’s the plot: The film stars Will Ferrell as the film’s central character “Buddy”, and Ed Asner as Santa Claus. As an infant in a New York [...]
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 [...]
Image by Silveira Neto via Flickr Our Nightmare Before Christmas story starts innocently enough in Halloween Town which is an eerie, spooky dreamland. A dreamland occupied by such ghostly citizens as deformed monsters, ghosts , ghouls , goblins, vampires werewolves and witches. The core of the Nightmare Before Christmas story centers around our hero Jack [...]
Image via Wikipedia News website examiner released a very funny list containing the Top 10 Geek Christmas DVDs. I especially like number 8 on this list: He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special! Here’s how the Geek Examiner summarizes the story: Orko accidentally crash lands Man-At-Arms’ Sky Spy Satellite on Earth right before Christmas. While there, [...]
Image by soundfreak_1 via Flickr The Christmas season is filled with lots of extras activities. Getting today for work parties, family gatherings, buying presents, wrapping presents, decorating the tree. Well, you get the idea. Sometimes it does take an actually scheduled date to set aside time to relax yourself or with family or friends. It [...]
Why DVDs Make Excellent Christmas PresentsBy Jim Woolley It always used to be the case that if you didn’t know what to get someone for Christmas, then you would simply buy them a CD. This is still true to an extent but now you are also just as likely to buy someone a DVD as [...]
Found an adorable article on parenting blog Strollerderby. The authors let their two year old toddler watch all the Christmas DVDs he liked. And guess which one came out at number one? Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Here’s what the authors said in their piece: We swear our son improved his pronunciation just so he could [...]
Top 10 lists blog The List Universe recently published its list of the best and worst Christmas TV specials. Here’s a small excerpt: I’m sure most people have their favorite Christmas specials, but did you know that most of the five best were made in the 1960s, and all of the worst of the lot [...]
Cover of Bad Santa Willie is a cynic. He’s an alcoholic and a sex-addict. And the job of this wretched creature is to bring holiday joy to children as Santa Claus at a mall. Well he doesn’t. Usually he makes fun of the kids or simply screams at them. After work Willie and his colleague [...]