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 special is [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 could [...]
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 wants to [...]
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 obviously are [...]