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Genre Blast: When the Backdrop is Christmas – The Yuletide Genre

Ah, the obligatory list of Christmas films, you’re thinking. Well, Santa Claus, presents for precocious kids, heartwarmingly comical family get-togethers…I’m not going there. In place…

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5 Alternatives For Your Christmas Movie List

Having dissolved my initial advent calendar idea (for more than one reason), I felt I had to salvage some of the Christmas-kind-of-related movies you might…

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50 Films For Christmas – Part 10 Of 10

Finally we arrive at the tenth and last part. Five more films for New Year’s Eve. And five pieces of crucial advice. Yeah right. Hope…

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50 Films For Christmas – Part 9 Of 10

Talk about leaving it until the last minute. Here we are at New Year’s Eve, and as promised the final ten Films for Christmas / New…

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50 Films For Christmas – Part 8 of 10

As Christmas Day blends into Boxing Day, I decided that perhaps the final two parts can reflect movies associated with New Year’s Eve. So before…

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Christmas Movies: Tangerine

by Steve Schwieghofer “Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!” Strains of “Toyland” playing in the background, so begins Sean Baker’s fresh and wonder-filled Tangerine. We begin our…

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Christmas Movie Grinch

How the Grinch Almost Ruined Christmas by Al Robinson First it was a book written by Theodor Seuss Geisel aka “Dr. Seuss” and published on…

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50 Films For Christmas – Part 7 Of 10

We can almost touch the end now. I wonder how many of these Christmas related movies you lot have even seen. The next five of…

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50 Films For Christmas – Part 6 Of 10

Expect these Christmas films to come thick and fast now as we towards the big day itself, and we seem to be watching films quicker…

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Christmas Movie – Lethal Weapon

By Jonathan Holmes When we think of films centered on the holiday season, we think about old Scrooge letting his guard down and learning to…

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Christmas Movies: The Lion in Winter

by Steve Schweighofer Henry II: HA! What shall we hang…the holly or each other?” For some reason it doesn’t appear on many Christmas movie lists, but…

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Christmas Movie Advent Seventeen

By Simone Cromer Set during Christmas time in Chicago, Home Alone is a comedy from the heart that demonstrates the importance of family during the holidays….

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50 Films For Christmas – Part 5 Of 10

Wouldn’t it be ironic if I could make the excuse that Christmas preparations got in the way of my writing this very post, so long…

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Christmas Movies: The Godfather

by The Greek. At first glance, not a Christmas film by any means, The Godfather trilogy is what I consider a skeleton key of an…

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