Christmas DVDs

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.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]