Category: Christmas Movie Reviews
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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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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.
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A Christmas Carol: (2019) FX Version
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Read more: A Christmas Carol: (2019) FX VersionI’m not going to hold back any longer. This FX near-masterpiece was beyond wonderful, and what they did with this iconic story just blew my mind. I am going to keep spoilers to a minimum, so read with confidence as I take you on a wonderful journey through what may be the best A Christmas…
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The Top 10 Christmas Movie Characters
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Read more: The Top 10 Christmas Movie CharactersChristmas is coming, but what about some of those memorable and Ruthless characters that made the movies what they are? I proudly present my Top Ten Christmas movie characters.
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Saint Nick of Bethlehem (2024)
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Read more: Saint Nick of Bethlehem (2024)Nick is a good-hearted man who struggles to find closure after the tragic loss of his son in an accident. He finds a new purpose in embracing his role as a generous Santa Claus.
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Red One (2024)
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Read more: Red One (2024)Do you know what I expect out of a Dwayne Johnson led film? Very little. Do you know what I expect out of a Dwayne Johnson performance? Punching and scowling.
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Holiday Fun: Entertainment Ideas for Festive Evenings
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Read more: Holiday Fun: Entertainment Ideas for Festive EveningsAh, the holiday season: when the nights are cold, the drinks are strong, and your family’s tolerable because the Wi-Fi works. But let’s face it – not every holiday evening is bustling with carolers or Instagram-worthy lights.
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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…