Christmas DVDs

He s making a list, he s checking it twice. This might be considered a line from one of the most acknowledged Xmas carol. Nearly everybody who celebrates Xmas understands all about Santa s good checklist too as his naughty checklist and most individuals do their very best to avoid becoming placed on Santa s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever wondered how Santa Claus got to become Santa? The (somehow foolishly titled) movie Christmas Story reveals the background of Santa. The story is set in Lapland where young Nikolas loses his family in an accident. To take care of the orphaned boy his village decides that Nikolas can stay at any family [...]

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. It revolves around the [...]

Blizzard is one of those Christmas DVDs that are at least two stages too corny, but a nicely laid out plot saves it from the worst: Jessies boyfriend movies in a new town just before Christmas. To comfort her Aunt Millie tells her the following story: Katie loves ice skating witch her coach Otto. When [...]

We all know that Christmas is about family and not the TV. But some precious memories and stories of Christmas are very appropriate to recall on the tube. Watching television in this wonderful season does not necessarily mean that you are missing all the fun. It is an old tradition in the most popular television [...]

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 Christmas [...]

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 [...]

Besides A Christmas Story National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation probably is one of the funniest Christmas DVDs. Many people can recite the dialogue word-for-word. Clark Griswold vows to create “the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever,”. As you can guess things are not that easy. Wayward cats, senile aunts, a scrooge-like boss and a cousin that [...]

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 [...]

Just found a beautiful review of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the 1964 TV stop-motion classic. Based on the beloved song this is one of my favourite Christmas DVDs. Here’s the plot: Teased about his nose as a child, Rudolph runs away from Santa’s village and makes new friends along the way: Hermey, an elf who [...]

Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists. Moviemakers especially have picked up on this wealth of material, with both adaptations of literary classics and new stories. While it is probably impossible to capture everything on the market I will try to categorize the huge number of Christmas DVDs. 1. Christmas movies Christmas movies [...]