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It seems to happen every Christmas: your beloved uncle brings home a perfect-for-you stranger just before the holiday and he makes your ill-suited boyfriend suspicious and jealous. Amazingly, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year does better than most at keeping an entertaining balance.
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What child can’t relate to the problem posed in A Christmas Story: Ralphie Parker wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. He commits himself to the quest of getting his beloved present despite life tossing numerous obstacles in his path.
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This is what happens if you take equal parts A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life and set it in Ireland with the protagonist being a doctor who has sworn off love and is instead becoming married to her career.
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Following a young woman in this period piece, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, opts to break out of the traditional formula for a holiday film and delivers, instead, a solid story filled with choices, consequences, love, disappointment, greed, and good old-fashioned humanity. The question is: does it deliver on the holiday theme?
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Calling Miracle on 34th Street a Christmas classic is a lot like calling chocolate just another candy. Some movies stand head-and-shoulders above the rest, and this classic stands even higher than that in the holiday pantheon.
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A while back I wrote 6 Things That Still Irk Me About Charmed. This time we’ll swing the pendulum the other way and look at some things that always make me happy I’ve been a fan of Charmed for so long.
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Christmas movies are a lot like romance novels in that most of the time they must adhere to very familiar and well-worn tropes. Farewell Mr. Kringle succeeds in giving us a well-balanced amalgam of the familiar while still being not only engaging but likable.
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The Maryland women’s basketball team has a youthful core that is very reminiscent of the 2005-06 championship team. They still have some tweaking, though, to reach that level–sometimes they look like a very young team. Fortunately, these adjustments are few and mostly “easily” done.
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There are some characters that simply rise above fanboy adoration. They become more than the genre. As a result, they enter in the public consciousness. These icons are usually human, but some bring an element of the machine to the party as well. Here’s a look at three blonde, blood and bolt females who are part of that legacy.
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Charles Dickens’ story, A Christmas Carol, has been done, re-done, re-imagined, re-gurgitated, re-thought, and just generally re’d. It’s easy to get jaded about it. What a wonder it is to be presented with what I consider to be the definitive filmed version.
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Cody Cullen is a soldier who returns from his latest tour to find the setting for an anonymous Christmas card he received while in-country. His adventure grows when he’s smitten by Faith Spelman; the woman who, unbeknownst to him, also happens to be the writer and sender of that card. What could go wrong?
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A lot of Christmas movies can be downright dour while others are such treacly fantasies that they positively make your teeth ache. Crazy For Christmas isn’t one of those movies.
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The latest brouhaha facing the questionable practices of the MPAA when it hands out ratings has once again come to the fore. This time it’s with assigning an “R” rating to The King’s Speech mostly, if not entirely, based on one small section were curse words are uttered.
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As an occasional viewer of “Smallville”, I haven’t seen a lot of Erica Durance’s turn as Lois Lane. In this tenth (and final…?) season, I’ve tuned in to see an actress who is doing an amazing job.
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One of the shows I’ve most enjoyed viewing both in first-run and in reruns or on tapes/discs has been the television series, …
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Reflecting on Cameron and Allison’s perspective on their relationships as well as my perspective, as a writer, on my relationship with them.
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It’s been about six months since I finished up season 4 of The Connor Wars. Since I’ve obviously not been posting about that as much as I was, I thought y’all might like a bit of an update.
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We watch a movie featuring one of our favorite actors and it simply doesn’t quite work. I find that most of the time the problems can be traced back to the shooting script (not necessarily the script the writer actually intended). The movie I’m taking a look at this time: Supergirl (1984)
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