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 [...]
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 [...]