Category: Christmas Movie Reviews
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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? The question is: As horrible and as soul-killing as this movie is, can the presence of Adam Sandler make it exponentially worse? Of course!
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The Gathering (1977)
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Read more: The Gathering (1977)The Gathering is a made for TV movie that aired on Dec. 04 1977, just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War.
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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.
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Elf (2003)
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Read more: Elf (2003)Will Ferrell was a human who was dropped on his head at birth and delivered by mistake to the North Pole. He was subsequently raised by elves and worked in Santa’s workshop. Ferrell, of course, because of his extensive brain damage thought that he was an elf and just could not understand why he didn’t…
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Read more: The Man Who Invented ChristmasIt is no secret that I love to review Christmas Movies. I am especially fond of the Charles Dickens timeless classic A Christmas Carol, and have watched and reviewed most of the renditions.
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Christmas Evil (1980)
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Read more: Christmas Evil (1980)This movie was originally billed as a routine Christmas Horror/Slasher flick. Somewhere along the way, it altered course. Christmas Evil became darker, creepier and more sinister as time passed. The character development elevated it into a Holiday Classic of incremental insanity. This was one of the strangest films I have ever seen.
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Carol For Another Christmas (1964)
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Read more: Carol For Another Christmas (1964)This is yet another obscure version of A Christmas Carol, set in the Cold War Period of the 1960’s. A Rod Sterling for TV production.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
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Read more: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)The original How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was a charming little short animation that was written by Dr. Seuss and narrated by the late great Boris Karloff. The absolutely fabulous Grinch Song is not sung by Boris Karloff
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Love Actually (2003)
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Read more: Love Actually (2003)My first review for this venerable site was over five years ago, when I covered the now largely forgotten low point of Danny Boyle’s career, Yesterday, including the following: “I only realized after suffering through two hours of this dreck that its writer also scripted and directed Love Actually.
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A Christmas Carol (2000)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2000)A Christmas Carol (2000) is an obscure version of the classic movie that I love so well. Here we do not have Ebeneezer, but Eddie Scrooge, played ruthlessly by Ross Kemp, as a 21st century version of a loan shark in England.