CATCHING UP WITH FILM - FILM CRITICISM WITH AN EYE ON A PERSONAL CANON

Christmas movies are a pretty big blind spot for me, so here’s to a whole month of getting smothered with the Christmas spirit with some of the best in the genre. The fact that this is directed by the same couple that did the dreadful Super Mario Bros movie in the early 90’s explains a lot. Apparently, that couple was a nightmare to work with in terms of not knowing what they were doing and their nonstop arguing. This remake of a 1950s noir is a huge mess, with Dennis Quaid p

Christmas movies are a pretty big blind spot for me, so here’s to a whole month of getting smothered with the Christmas spirit with some of the best in the genre. I would have to do a lot more research than I’m really willing to, but I think this combination of the Great Depression and the post World War II era really influenced the formula of Christmas-themed movies that are present even today. So many of the modern conventions of Christmas even worldwide have their origins

Christmas movies are a pretty big blind spot for me, so here’s to a whole month of getting smothered with the Christmas spirit with some of the best in the genre. My first exposure to this story was the Penny Marshall directed The Preacher’s Wife with Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston. The fact that I had to look up what I thought about that movie tells me that I didn’t find this story particularly interesting in the first place. The best thing about this movie is Cary Gr