Twas the week before Christmas, and all through our house,
Not a brain cell was stirring, I felt like a louse.
FOUR CHRISTMASES
December 22, 2008 by
Film Title
Four ChristmasesSynopsis
A couple we’d like to see divorce, visits all four of their divorced, entitled, boomer parents.
Director
Seth GordonCast
Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
December 10, 2007 by
Synopsis
Miracle on 34th Street is a timeless Christmas classic, a much-loved black and white film about the existence of Santa Claus and Christmas miracles.
Director
George SeatonCast
Maureen O'Hara
John Payne
Edmund Gwenn
Gene Lockhart
Natalie Wood
Miracle on 34th Street is a timeless Christmas classic, a much-loved black and white film about the existence of Santa Claus and Christmas miracles.
A CHRISTMAS STORY
December 7, 2007 by
Film Title
A Christmas StorySynopsis
The eyes and tongues of children are removed during  the observance of ancient pagan rituals.
Director
Bob ClarkCast
Melinda Dillon
Darren McGavin
Scott Schwartz
Jean Shepherd
Peter Billingsley
As much as I love the Scrooge classics, I must grudgingly admit that A Christmas Story is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.
CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS
December 14, 2006 by
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Christmas With The KranksSynopsis
You’d better not pout, you’d better conform.
Director
Joe RothCast
Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey
A little eggnog with your Holocaust?
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT
November 5, 2006 by
Film Title
Silent Night Deadly NightSynopsis
An escaped mental patient dresses up as Santa and does what we all wish we could do at some point during the holidays.
Director
Charles E. Sellier Jr.Cast
Lilyan Chauvin, Linnea Quigley, Robert Brian Wilson, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero
So its an interesting mix of the reactionary and the rebellious; a film that aims to scare the shit out of kids by making them think Santa is…
SURVIVING CHRISTMAS
March 9, 2006 by
Film Title
Surviving ChristmasSynopsis
A lonely, obnoxious young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.
Director
Mike MitchellCast
Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Udo Kier
There is an iron-clad formula in the Christmas genre of cinema…
BAD SANTA
March 8, 2006 by
Film Title
Bad SantaSynopsis
Depressive alcoholism, crime and Christmas converge in perhaps the best Christmas movie ever made.
Director
Terry ZwigoffCast
Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Bernie Mac, John Ritter, Alex Borstein
**UPDATE, October 2006: I hereby retract anything and everything negative I had to say about this movie…
