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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Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays (2012) – Review
With Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, we aren’t talking about another animated movie; instead, we’re talking about a Direct-to-DVD Christmas Special that simply runs a little no longer than an average episode. It premiered on the Cartoon Network before being released as part of the 13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills DVD, and if not as engaging…
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…
A Christmas Horror Story (2015) – Review
For many people the holidays are a nightmare; crappy relatives, fighting to find the perfect gift and hiding from that one bloke at work who carries around a sprig of mistletoe, but Hollywood loves to once in a while make a Christmas movie that takes the holiday season to a gory horrifying state.
“It’s not Christmas if I haven’t watched…”
Christmas is a time that means many things to many people; buying presents, decorating a tree, drinking eggnog, singing carols – oh and of course peace on Earth and goodwill to all men – but for me, it isn’t truly Christmas unless I’ve made it through my checklist of must-watch Christmas shows.