Trapped in Paradise is far from the most beloved entry in the great Christmas movie pantheon, as evidenced by the fact that it has not yet been covered on this site. Its own cast reportedly hated working on it so much that they took to calling it Trapped in Bullshit, though the only source I […]
Trapped In Paradise (1994)
December 7, 2020 by
Film Title
Trapped In ParadiseSynopsis
Nothing expresses Yuletide joy like robbing a bank
Director
George GalloCast
Nicholas Cage
Dana Carvey
Jon Lovitz
Florence Stanley
Richard Jenkins
A Christmas Carol (2018)
December 6, 2020 by
Film Title
A Christmas CarolSynopsis
A modern-day rendition of the timeless classic
Director
David IzattCast
Stuart Brennan
Bonnie Wright
Rebecca Hanssen
Sarina Taylor
Mark Paul Wake
Alec Westwood
As you know, A Christmas Carol is my favorite genre of Christmas Movies and I have already watched and reviewed at least 16 versions of this venerable classic. This version is a low budget but more than adequate re-telling that is set in modern-day Scotland. This Ebeneezer Scrooge (Stuart Brennan) is a young and wildly […]
Elves (2018)
December 5, 2020 by
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ElvesSynopsis
Ancient Elves locked in a chest only come out at Christmas.
Director
Jamaal BurdenCast
Who Cares?
I’ve come to an unassailable generalization. Every Christmas movie with “Elf or Elves” in the title is going to be horrible and without redemption, campy or otherwise. The opening “teaser” (more like snoozer) scene lasted 6 minutes and consisted of two young boys sitting in a dark room with that awful piano, bang-bang one chord […]
Godmothered
December 4, 2020 by
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GodmotheredSynopsis
Will Farrell with a magic wand and a pink dress
Director
Sharon MaguireCast
Isla Fisher
Julian Bell
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Stephnie Weir
Santiago Cabera
Oh no. Uh oh. I haven’t even asked a question yet. Was it a bad movie? Yes. Don’t watch it people. Don’t watch it. We didn’t even finish the movie. You didn’t even finish the movie? What was so bad about it? First thing is it didn’t have a villain. Second thing is it doesn’t […]
Soul (2020)
December 4, 2020 by
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SoulSynopsis
An animated out of the body experience for a musician who has lost his way
Director
Pete Doctor, Kemp PowersCast
Jamie Foxx
Tina Fey
Rachel House
Alice Braga
Angela Bassett
When I play baseball, there are times when I am in such a great groove pitching that everything seems to slow down, background noise and visuals disappear, and playing the game becomes easy. In For Love of the Game, pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) calls it clearing the mechanism. Others describe it as being “in […]
Christmas Story – a.k.a. (Joulutarina)(2007/Finnish)
December 4, 2020 by
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Christmas StorySynopsis
A Finnish tale of how Santa Claus came into being
Director
Jahu WuolijokiCast
Hannu-Pekka Bjorkman
Kari Vaananen
Otto Gustavsson
Minna Haapkyla
Mikko Kouki
This is not A Christmas Story, the greatest Christmas Movie ever make, but a charming, unique and very watchable Finnish version of how Santa Claus came into being. Like the Netflix classic Klaus, Christmas Story is not another cheesy and lame “save Christmas” film, but one that creates Christmas, with absolutely no mention of the […]
Fatman (2020)
December 2, 2020 by
Film Title
FatmanSynopsis
A 12 year old punk hires a hit-man to snuff out Santa. Santa is no amused.
Director
Eshom & Iam NelmsCast
Mel Gibson
Walton Goggins
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Chance Hurstfield
Robert Bockstael
The subversive Christmas movie is nothing new in cinema. Every year, profound wits declare that they and they alone have discovered the shocking truth that Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie. Taking it a bit further, nearly every action movie written by the great Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, etc) […]
We’re No Angels (1955)
December 2, 2020 by
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We're No AngelsSynopsis
Three escapees from Devil’s Island are master con men, and help out a kind merchant and his family.
Director
Michael CurtizCast
Humphrey Bogart
Aldo Ray
Peter Ustinov
Joan Bennett
Basil Rathbone
Leo G. Carroll
Lea Penman
Here at Ruthless we love our readers, especially when they give us suggestions about great movies to review. We’re No Angels is a light-hearted and unusual Christmas type movie staring the iconic Humphrey Bogart. O.K., it wasn’t a great movie as such, but considering that the film is 65 years old, it holds up quite […]
Mixed Nuts (1994)
November 28, 2020 by
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Mixed NutsSynopsis
This movie should have been career suicide for all involved
Director
Nora EphronCast
Steve Martin
Madeline Kahn
Robert Klein
Juliette Lewis
Steven Wright
Rob Reiner
Liev Schreiber
Rita Wilson
Garry Shandling
Haley Joel Osment
Here we have a Christmas Movie about a Suicide Hotline. Doesn’t this sound deliciously hilarious? Well, it’s not. What this movie is, is a big steaming pile of rancid Christmas pudding, mixed with arsenic sauce. It is not humor, it is not dark humor or satire, it is just 1 hr:33 minutes of stupidity, but […]
Verotika
November 28, 2020 by
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VerotikaSynopsis
A movie that apparently is as least as good as The Beast of Yucca Flats
Director
Glenn DanzigCast
Ashley Wisdom
Rachel Alig
Alice Tate
Scotch Hopkins
Kayden Kross
Sean Kanan
Natalia Borowosky
Damn this inconvenient global pandemic! A movie like Glenn Danzig’s absurdly amateurish, lurid, and pointless Verotika simply demands to be seen in a theater full of like-minded trash-lovers cackling and shouting at the ineptitude displayed onscreen. It is just not meant to be seen as your faithful servant, this reviewer, was forced to see it, […]
