Tag: christmas
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Christian’s Christmas: Lethal Weapon (1987)
I’ve been listening to Christmas music… the entire year. Well, if it comes on shuffle, I leave it on. Also, I put my Halloween decorations up on November 3rd… and put the Christmas decorations up that same day. Now, it’s December first. You know what this means? Christian’s Christmas is among us. I LOVE Christmas,…
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Christian’s Christmas: Four Christmases (2008)
By Christian DiMartino Four Christmases has an interesting reputation. When it was released, it was pretty much trashed by critics, but it made a lot of money. As time has gone on, I have also come across a lot of people who genuinely enjoy it, while also keeping in mind that the movie still probably…
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Christian’s Christmas: The Holiday (2006)
By Christian DiMartino Nancy Meyers’ movies are essentially cinematic comfort food. The stories are light, the people are pretty, as are the places. It doesn’t require a ton of mental effort to sit through a Nancy Meyers comedy, and it helps that she’s really such a terrific writer. She manages to not only write some…
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Christian’s Christmas: The Ref (1994)
By Christian DiMartino The worst Christmas movies really lay the syrup on thick, what with all the hugging and the learning and the fah-lah-lah. I can go for it in small doses, but that’s where I draw the line. Ted Demme’s The Ref, perhaps the best Christmas movie you’ve never seen, is a Christmas comedy…
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Christian’s Christmas: Carol (2015)
By Christian DiMartino The debate over what classifies a Christmas movie as a Christmas movie is one that will probably go on forever. There are people who claim that Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie. Well, while it may not have the Christmas spirit, it also features more of Christmas than It’s a Wonderful Life,…
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Review: Happiest Season
By Christian DiMartino Clea Duvall’s Happiest Season goes in directions you expect it to go once the groundwork for the plot is laid out. It’s also cliché to a degree and not every bit of humor lands in it. Yet even with all of that, it still manages to be one of the best Christmas…
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Christian’s Christmas: Love Actually (2003)
By Christian DiMartino Can we talk about how great Love Actually is? There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love Love Actually, and liars. No disrespect to anyone who doesn’t like Love Actually (believe it or not, these people exist), but it is a feeling that will never be mutual. Love…
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Review: Krampus
By Christian DiMartino Michael Dougherty’s Krampus is a film that simply will not appeal to everyone. You will either go into it with negative thoughts, or you will expect it to be so ridiculous, you might get a kick out of it. I am in the latter category. I liked Krampus. I liked the way that Dougherty…
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Review: The Night Before
1/2 By Christian DiMartino In order for a film like The Night Before, a Christmas stoner comedy starring Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie, to work, two things must be right: It must be fun, and it must be funny. The film gets the former right. The latter? Eh, could be better. However, the film redeems…
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