• November 25, 2012
• Books

There probably isn’t a movie-lover among us who doesn’t have a host of Christmas movies he or she revisits every year, and Alonso Duralde’s Have Yourself A Movie Little...

• November 19, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Family

After the surprisingly excellent How to Train Your Dragon, Dreamworks Animation scores another winner with Rise of the Guardians. Though it may not reach quite the soaring heights of...

• November 29, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Drama

A co-production with legendary Aardman Animations, the film is a welcome addition to the Christmas-movie oeuvre and will likely become a seasonal favourite, destined to rerun every December alongside...

• November 28, 2011
• At Home, Comedy

I have to admit, it made me wince a little to see Kal Penn (Kumar) and John Cho (Harold) return to these stoner roles after Penn worked for the...

• December 21, 2010
• Moviepie Musings

‘Tis the time of year when Christmas-themed movie releases belch forth in the hopes that consumers will blindly snatch them up based on the promise of holiday magic alone....

• December 10, 2009
• Adventure, At Home, Family

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...

• December 3, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

As I started watching Four Christmases, it seemed to me that the movie couldn’t possibly be as bad as everyone said it was. It had a full year to...

• November 28, 2009
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Drama

Raise your hand if you loved The Polar Express! Is your hand up? Stay here. Is your arm pressed closely to your side while you make a cringey face?...

• December 1, 2008
• At Home, Comedy, Television

Leave it to Stephen Colbert and friends to come up with a Christmas special that is completely irreverent, strangely traditional, and introduces a handful of new holiday songs that...

• November 26, 2008
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Fred Claus has issues. For one thing, he’s spent most of his life living in the shadow of his saintly brother, Nicholas (yes, Saint Nicholas, a rotund goody-goody of...

• November 20, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Family, Fantasy

What’s a girl to do when she HATES one of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time? It’s A Wonderful Life is an American classic, a perennial favorite,...

• October 20, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Family

The reason I wanted to see The House Without A Christmas Tree would best be expressed in three little words: Mary. Katherine. Gallagher. Remember the Molly Shannon character on...