Christian holiday celebrated annually on December 25th
Welcome once again to the latest recap/review of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas extravaganza. Today’s film: Christmas in Love. Ellie Hartman is an aspiring crafter working in her small town’s bakery making famous Christmas Kringles. When the new, big-city CEO Nick … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Christmas in Love Recap/Review
I forgot to mention this in a previous post, but according to some stats, Christmas at Pemberley Manor was “Marked Highest-Rated and Most-Watched Cable Program on Saturday.” People truly tune into this stuff. Also, Hallmark calls its viewers “Hallmarkies” on … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: It’s Christmas, Eve Recap/Review
It’s film 3 of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas and I worry for myself. Today’s film is Road to Christmas. Here’s the crash course: Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker unwittingly falls for Danny Wise, the son and former producer of … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Road to Christmas Recap/Review
Welcome to the second review of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas film series! It’s called Christmas Joy. Here’s the synopsis: Joy Holbrook is an intuitive market researcher in DC who has captured the attention of the account’s CEO and is about … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Christmas Joy Recap/Review
Intro to Hallmark and Countdown to Christmas So the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas has begun and at the time of this writing, Halloween hasn’t happened yet. This Christmas celebration stuff is getting out of hand. If you’re not familiar … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Christmas at Pemberley Manor
Town, or Man About Town as it was sometimes called, had a decade-plus run of being an extraordinarily influential British men’s style magazine. Founded in 1952 with an irreverent tone to cover subjects of interest to aspiring playboys, the magazine promoted … Continue reading Let’s Read Town, December 1963!
It’s Frosty the Snowman meets 1984! No, seriously, this exists. Continue reading Good God, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman is Weird
Merry Christmas! Or Happy Holidays if you want to piss of Fox News. Since today is a hectic day for many of us, I figured it would be best not to do a long introduction and cut straight to the … Continue reading What Are Your Favorite Christmas Commercials?
Merry Christmas Everybody! I hope that you are enjoying the holiday with friends and loved ones. I wanted to share the complete episode of Tales from the Crypt ‘And All Through the House’! Written by Fred Dekker and directed By … Continue reading Merry Christmas from Splendy!
Maybe it’s just me, but one of the worst things about the Holiday season is being bombarded with Christmas songs. There’s only so many times I can hear “Feliz Navidad” without becoming enraged. Nevertheless, there are some winners. One of … Continue reading X-Mas Songs That Don’t Suck
Last summer when word of the Kinjapocalypse came down, on a whim I took video footage using my phone of one of the greatest comment threads ever produced by the Disqus-era A.V. Club. On December 23, 2008 The A.V. Club … Continue reading Reviving an Old A.V. Club Holiday Tradition
McCall’s: you know it as a sewing pattern company today, but for over a century it was considered one of the most influential and important women’s magazines on the market. It also happened to make bank on sewing patterns that … Continue reading Let’s Read McCall’s, December 1971
This is not meant to be a “defense,” per se, of Paul McCartney’s 1979 hit single and holiday playlist staple “Wonderful Christmastime.” If the sound of that sproingy synthesizer lead fills you with dread, and the loose, almost sloppy vocals … Continue reading The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: “Wonderful Christmastime” and the Genius of Paul McCartney
The movie might not be coming out for nearly another year, but Universal has already put out the first poster for Illumination’s upcoming animated tentpole The Grinch, and it features the title character looking…pretty adorable? Granted, the tagline does indeed promise … Continue reading The First Poster for The Grinch is Strangely Adorable
One of the nicest things about Christmas is that it’s an ideal time to tell your friends to seek out holiday specials which you find rewarding that they may have never heard of before. Now, there’d be no point in … Continue reading A Very Merry Cricket is a Yuletide Chuck Jones Classic
By now, there have been more adaptations of A Christmas Carol than anyone can count. In addition to the straightforward takes on the story, there have been so many parodies of the classic holiday tale that taking any form of … Continue reading But Seriously, Barbie in A Christmas Carol is Pretty Good
John Lennon and Paul McCartney had one of the most successful song-writing partnerships of all time. They both wrote lyrics and music, and in the early days of their partnership and of the Beatles, they collaborated extensively, but as time … Continue reading Beatle Battle: Who Wrote a Better Christmas Song?
The day gets darker. You put out some sparkling drinks on the table, whether it be champagne or Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Guests are coming through the door. The glazed ham is almost ready. It’s a holiday party! You need something … Continue reading Your Go-To Holiday Get Together Album
There’s a reason you’ve probably never seen Cricket on the Hearth. At the very least, you’ve almost certainly never seen it on television. Airing only once as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show in 1967, the Rankin/Bass special fell into obscurity afterwards, … Continue reading Cricket on the Hearth is a Bad Cartoon from Rankin/Bass’s Golden Age
There are films that are set at Christmas, but aren’t about the holiday: Batman Returns, Iron Man 3, Gremlins, Trading Places, The Ref, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lethal Weapon, L.A. Confidential, Go, The Thin Man, The Apartment, and The Lion … Continue reading Christmas Movies, Part 2: 1988 – Present
While there are many wonderful, heartwarming Christmas movies out there, there are probably ten times as many sappy ones out there that your wife, mother and grandmother binge watch each year (mostly one Hallmark and Lifetime). In this seasonal series, … Continue reading Sappy Christmas Movies: The Ultimate Gift (Now With South American Rebels!)
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