There’s no arguing that Santa sits pretty atop the pop culture recognition tree? He may only get to strut his toy-giving festive stuff once a year but man does he make the most of it, and even when your thoughts may not necessarily turn to reindeers, tinsel and presents Continue Reading
Christmas 2015
On 3rd day of Christmas … I admired The Art of Krampus
Let’s face it – if you had a choice between happy, jolly Santa Claus coming to pay you a visit, laden with toys, a hearty laugh and a longing for milk and cookies, and a cloven-hoofed demonic bringer of retribution and doom as payment for bad deeds done, you’d no doubt Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I read Stick Man by Julie Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
There’s a very good reason why the song “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, first recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby and written for soldiers fighting overseas and far from their loved ones, is such a Christmas favourite. It encapsulates everything that most of us – I appreciate not everyone Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I watched the film Get Santa
Christmas films, especially those with good old Santa’s name in the title, generally tend to follow the same well-worn path. Someone, oh let’s say Santa himself, gets into trouble, caught in a situation that a man of hundreds of years experience and worldly-wiseness has never encountered in all his Continue Reading
Ho! Ho! WOOF! MEOW! Merry Christmas from The Secret Life of Pets
SNAPSHOT Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy produce Continue Reading
Watch out Mog! It’s a Christmas cat-astrophe … or is it?
It’s a Christmas cat-astrophe! First appearing in Deborah Kerr’s delightful 1970 book, Mog the Forgetful Cat, and sticking around for a series of delightful books which culminated, at least until this Christmas with Goodbye Mog in 2002, Mog is one very adorably klutzy cat. While she technically died in Continue Reading
“I always knew I would die in an elevator!” Christmas Eve spent in very tight spaces (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance, and a little holiday magic will get them through—and change their lives in unexpected ways. Starring Patrick Stewart, Jon Heder, James Roday, Cheryl Hines, Max Casella, Julianna Continue Reading
Christmas comes early: Touching ad #TheManontheMoon reminds us everyone deserves some festive cheer
I ordinarily don’t feature ads, no matter how creative they are, on this site. But there’s something so delightfully cinematic and heartwarming about the annual Christmas ads released by British department store John Lewis, which have become quite the festive institution in their homeland, and now worldwide, that they’re Continue Reading