A popular holiday staple for many families is John Hughs’s Christmas comedy Home Alone, where a young boy must defend his home from intruders, but while that film has become a holiday classic and is beloved by many, it was not the first film with that premise because a year earlier writer/director René Manzor brought…
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The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
With the holiday season upon us, this means our television viewing will most likely consist of some Christmas classics, but between the multiple showings of It’s a Wonderful Life or the twenty-four-hour marathons of A Christmas Story, we will also be bombarded with a boatload of “fresh” Christmas content, ones that will be vying to…
Happy (2017) – Review
With seasonal television programming cramming the airwaves with a variety of holiday saccharine material it’s nice to catch something a little different and the SyFy original series Happy is definitely something different.
Krampus (2015) – Review
So, a little over a couple of years ago, the Austrian Alpine legend of Krampus was barely a blip on the radar in North America, save for some Germanic communities and a certain episode of American Dad! which didn’t do much to boost its popularity, but on the upside, thanks to the hype surrounding the…
The Night Before (2015) – Review
The one thing I am hoping we can all agree on, at least when it comes to the holiday season, is that if there’s any time to get super drunk, engage in wild amounts of debauchery and party until stupid hours of the morning, it’s the holiday season. Think about it; Spring Break is a…