I’ve just discovered this year’s MUST-WATCH holiday movie. Here’s the trailer:
Cover of Christmas with the Kranks
One of 2004’s commercially most successful Christmas films is Joe Roth’s adaptation of the successful novel Skipping Christmas by author John Grisham. Christmas With The Kranks grossed nearly 73 million US dollars.
The story of Christmas With The Kranks is not too bad, which of course is due to the novel. [...]
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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 world-famous [...]
Cover of Home Alone
Christmas DVDs have always centered on the topics of love, warmth and happiness. They mainly include family and never forget good morals. The cult comedy Home Alone by Chris Columbus keeps this premise. But in between there is a proper dose of slapstick comedy, with great actors, in an imaginative story.
The plot [...]
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 famous story [...]
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 City orphanage, [...]
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By John Anderson
Sometimes a movie-maker really gets it right and produces a film for all time. It requires a brilliant script, a dream cast, a gifted director and an outstanding photographer and technical staff. Put them all together and you can produce magic. Bob Clark and Gene Shepherd did just that in The [...]
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 Marcus [...]
One of the classics in Christmas DVDs I have just gotten round to watching is the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street.This movie won three Academy Awards and has everything a holiday classic should have The story is imaginative without losing its grip on reality. It revolves around Kris Kringle who gets the job of [...]