Holiday Viewing: Silent Night, Deadly Night

When your Christmas nightmares come true

"...the elephant in the room, right? Oh, there’s traditional holiday movies like Christmas in Connecticut, Elf, some Downton Abbey..."

Dec. 23, 2017 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Holiday Viewing: The Spirit of Christmas

A ridiculous delight in the Hallmark movie pantheon

"...It’s becoming a modern Christmas tradition: the inundation of holiday romances. Almost 30 movies were made for the Hallmark..."

Dec. 12, 2017 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Holiday Viewing: Gremlins

Classic black comedy has the blues

"...her two pivotal scenes in Gremlins, expert and enduring holiday catharsis...."

Dec. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

Holiday Viewing: Elf

One for the whole family

"...good food (mostly made by my mom), and watching movies and our favorite shows...."

Dec. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Mark Fagan

Holiday Viewing: Christmas in Connecticut

It's a wonderful lie

"...Christmas movies usually come wrapped in a message: appreciate the little..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: The Best Man Holiday

Bust a gut laughing, or cry your guts out: You get it both ways

"...Raunchy comedy, or wracking-sob melodrama? With The Best Man Holiday, you don’t have to choose...."

Dec. 10, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: White Christmas

The one we can't seem to quit

"...crooning the titular song. That honor goes to 1942’s Holiday Inn, which first introduced the Irving Berlin-penned – and,..."

Dec. 13, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Last Holiday

After being diagnosed with an incurable brain disease, a woman (who is played delightfully by Queen Latifah) discovers her moxie.

"...plain, shy New Orleans retail clerk’s whirlwind European winter holiday after she’s diagnosed with some improbable terminal ailment called..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Hideout Theatre's The Hallmark Holiday Musical

This delightful improvised spin on Hallmark Christmas movies has just what the real things never do: surprises

"...The difference between a Hallmark holiday movie and the Hideout Theatre's improvised musical version of..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Holiday Viewing: The Gospel According to St. Matthew

“The most sublime Texts ever written”

"...Letters at 3AM column in the Chronicle on Easter movies: “The Gospel According to St. Matthew was filmed in..."

Dec. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Nick Barbaro

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...Does going home for the holidays have you fretful? Are you fearing the same old,..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Holiday Viewing: The Thin Man

A merry, blotto Christmas (mind the dead body in the bedroom)

"...On New Year’s Eve, starting at 7pm, Turner Classic Movies will marathon the entire Thin Man series...."

Dec. 25, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: A Christmas Carol

In this season of giving, who is the best Scrooge?

"...This Christmas Eve, Turner Classic Movies stays up late for one of the first great..."

Dec. 24, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Shop Around the Corner

The essential Jimmy Stewart Christmas movie (no, not that one)

"...The Shop Around the Corner airs on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday, Dec. 3, 11am; Friday, Dec. 15, 7pm;..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick’s lovely holiday tale of marriage and orgies

"...It’s a solid entry into the nouvelle vague of holiday viewing (just stop it with Die Hard, okay?). Kubrick’s..."

Dec. 19, 2017 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Holiday Viewing: TV Christmas Episodes

Celebrate the season in Sunnydale, the Oval Office, and more

"...The thing about holiday episodes from television series is, they don’t always age..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: Krampus

How to avoid being dragged away on Krampusnacht

"...In his follow-up, 2015's Krampus, Dougherty turns to another holiday, and yet again suburban America gets on the wrong..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Nightmare Before Christmas

A holiday hybrid for outcasts

"...hidden, but all too present, feeling exacerbated by the holidays. While the season is known for jolly family get-togethers,..."

Dec. 21, 2017 Screens Post by Marisa Mirabal

Holiday Viewing: Downton Abbey Christmas Specials

We rank the holidays with the Crawley family

"...4) The Season 5 Christmas Special: “A Moorland Holiday” I know I’m not alone in thinking the Bates/Anna..."

Dec. 17, 2017 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Holiday Viewing: Doctor Who at Christmas

Which are the best (and worst) of the BBC classic's Xmas specials?

"...a man with a time machine cannot deliver a holiday miracle or two, who can?..."

Dec. 11, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Some Santas belong on the naughty list

"...That's fine if it's Sundblom's Santa spying on you...."

Dec. 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Dead

The shadow of Christmas past hangs long over Huston's classic

"...independently wealthy that can afford to take a month's holiday, or that can hold a massive dinner party at..."

Dec. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: Black Christmas

The giving season can be murder in the original slasher

"...It's not the original holiday horror. Two years earlier, in 1972, ABC inexplicably decked..."

Dec. 2, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: Diner

Or how I fell in love with Mickey Rourke

"...offerings. Find a new recommendation every day at our Holiday Movie Advent Calendar...."

Dec. 16, 2017 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Holiday Viewing: Bad Santa

Foul-mouthed fun for the holidays

"...offerings. Find a new recommendation every day at our Holiday Movie Advent Calendar...."

Dec. 15, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: The Lion in Winter

It’s 1183 … but squabbling with the family is timeless

"...me out of jail.” Henry: “It’s only for the holidays.”..."

Dec. 6, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: A Christmas Tale

Turns out Christmas dinner is just as fraught in French

"...offerings. Find a new recommendation every day at our Holiday Movie Advent Calendar...."

Dec. 3, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Gift Guide: Film Fan

From up on the screen to under the tree

"...The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History$40, www.stephenjoneseditor.com/book2017-artofmovies01.htm Brighten up your otherwise dismal..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Wish Lists 2005

Give 'til it helps: part one

"...local public service outfits to get in on the holiday hjinks, and better yet, the end-of-the-year tax-write-off rush, and..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Features Feature by Anne Harris

Tired of the Same Old Christmas Movies? Try These Instead.

7 unconventional picks to scratch your holiday itch

"...There’s no shortage of Christmas horror movies to choose from, but there’s only one teen zombie..."

Dec. 22, 2020 Screens Post

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