Category: Christmas Movie Reviews
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The Green Knight (2021)
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Read more: The Green Knight (2021)We all heard the pipes begin to play for cinema, didn’t we? I did. Then, from nowhere and without warning, somebody made The Green Knight and gave us hope. It is a Christmas film, in the real sense, the actual high-holy-day-of-the-Christian-calendar sense (Die Hard can drop reeling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza for all…
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A Christmas Carol (2020)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2020)A Christmas Carol: A heavily narrated, twitching jerking, twirling, pretentious and choreographed mess. But, it was a beautiful mess. This is yet another rendition of my favorite themed Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol. In an upscale Victorian home, the children had constructed a paper theater version of this classic. As grandmother narrates the story of…
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Klaus: (2019) Netflix
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Read more: Klaus: (2019) NetflixI do not particularly care for animated films, super hero films, or comic book films. However, as my Christmas Movie stocking is about empty, I could not ignore what was apparently yet another Netflix Christmas movie. So, I moved to my living room, made a small fire in the hearth, and fired up Klaus on…
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Mrs. Worthington’s Party-A.K.A. Noelle (2007)
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Read more: Mrs. Worthington’s Party-A.K.A. Noelle (2007)It is no secret that faith-based movies have taken their review lumps from both believers and non-believers alike. The harsh criticism heaped upon this genre of movie has been well deserved, and I have been a joyful participant in this scrutiny. Faith-based Christmas movies are especially vulnerable to criticism for poor artistic presentation and falling…
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Christmas At Graceland: Home For The Holidays
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Read more: Christmas At Graceland: Home For The HolidaysMy career with Ruthless has been a good one with many high-water marks like Midnight Cowboy and my Christmas Movie reviews and related articles. There have also been a few low spots, but this movie is one ditch that I may not be able to crawl out of. Somehow, someway, Matt Cale talked me into…
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A Christmas Carol: (2019) FX Version
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Read more: A Christmas Carol: (2019) FX VersionThis version of A Christmas Carol will wind up this season of Christmas Movie Reviews, and what a season it has been! Classified as at 3 part TV mini-series, this variant is a 3 hour long movie that is available from FX, Xfinity and several other streaming services like Hulu, Fubo and Sling. This one…
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Mixed Nuts (1994)
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Read more: Mixed Nuts (1994)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…
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The Top 10 Christmas Movie Characters
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Read more: The Top 10 Christmas Movie Characters“Mankind was my business!” -Jacob Marley Also, Please check out all of our always respectful and reverent Christmas Reviews here. The Christmas season has wound down and the reflection begins. We all have our favorite Christmas movie classics, but what about some of those memorable and Ruthless characters that made the movies what they are?…
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A Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965)
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Read more: A Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965)A Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965) Virtually everyone is familiar with the comic strip Peanuts created by the late Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), as well as the ancient animated Christmas TV special. The main character is Charlie Brown, who lives in a bizarro world, where the landscape is bleak and snow-packed during the winter season.…
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A Christmas Story
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Read more: A Christmas StoryAs much as I love the Scrooge classics, I must grudgingly admit that A Christmas Story is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.