Blessed with two fabulous leads – who have stellar chemistry with each other – and a screenplay co-penned by Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, Last Christmas is a movie made for people who love Christmas movies. And it’s a thousand times better than anything Hallmark’s made-for-TV machine will ever crank out. Emilia Clark stars as Kate, a …
In Bad Moms, we met 30-something moms Amy (Mila Kunis), Kiki (Kristen Bell), and Carla (Kathryn Hahn) as they bonded (and drank and partied) over the stress and expectations of being a perfect mom in the modern world. Tapping into the rage against societal pressure, Bad Moms had some inspired moments, including a scene involving …
Humor in everyday office life has been sorely represented in entertainment. Contrary to what Hollywood shows us on TV and in movies, we are not all doctors, lawyers, and cops. There is a goldmine of untapped comedy in the rest of our paycheck-to-paycheck lives, shown by shows like The Office (both UK and US versions), …
Stick Man, as you might imagine, is an actual stick who lives in a tree with his stick wife and two stick children. They share meals, play outside, and celebrate holidays like any other family. The only difference is that they have to go back to being plain old inanimate sticks any time a person …
So eventually I snuck to the library and got the film for the typical three-week checkout, which left me enough time to let it casually sit in the middle of my floor until I got used to its presence. Three days before it was due, I put the movie into my VCR, squinted my eyes …
The Coopers, we are told through a nameless, relentless narrator, are an extended dysfunctional family clan, all trying to come together for Christmas dinner in snowy Pennsylvania. The parental hosts are Charlotte and Sam (Diane Keaton and John Goodman, a surprising and kind of strange pair, who struggle to make the most of a crappy …
Buddy’s Musical Christmas is essentially an animated retelling of the film, condensed into a tidy 44 minute package, rife with sweetness, song, and silliness. After it becomes abundantly clear that Buddy (voiced by Jim Parsons) is not like the other elves, Santa (voiced by Ed Asner) reveals that Buddy was actually an orphan who crawled …
Because I’m a sap, I’ll basically watch any sort of Christmas movie that makes a modicum of sense. I don’t tend to have a lot of standards as long as Christmas is happening, and if you’re the same way, I’m sure you’ll enjoy 12 Dog Days Till Christmas. Though this family film aimed at tweens …
If Christmas Angel and Lost Christmas are any indication, the Brits have a slightly different take on Christmas movies than Americans. They seem to embrace the “everybody dies” school of movie-making and then work their way back to a happy ending from there. There’s nothing wrong with this style, per se, but for viewers accustomed …
Now, call me a freak, but I kind of enjoy the Buddies series of movies. You know, these straight-to-video spawn of Air Bud family flicks that follow the doggy family of Buddies… those crazy golden retriever pups—B-Dawg (with his hip-hop speak), food-loving Budderball, Buddha (“Namaste!”), Rosebud (the only girl of the bunch), and the unclean …