Merry Christmas from the 25th Century … and also from me! Thanks for a wonderful year of pop culture goodness and here’s to an even better year of books, movies, TV, graphic novels and songs in 2020! But wait … this is the most wonderful time of the year so Continue Reading
Christmas 2019
Christmas movie review: Let It Snow
There is something particularly charged about certain times of the year when, despite all rational sensibilities to the contrary, people are seized by a need to act on things long dormant. Christmas is just such a time (along, of course, with its week-away calendar companion, New Year’s), and in Let Continue Reading
Rudolph stages the 80s montage-iest of comebacks in RED #Christmas
SNAPSHOTRed had the word at his hoofs, the most famous and talented reindeer on the sleigh. But fame, money, Does and his playboy lifestyle got the better of him. His fall from grace was epic, the party lifestyle getting out of hand, and eventually, he hung up his harness and Continue Reading
The best Christmas tree he can be: The festive adventures of Albert
Christmas television is usually pretty inspirational stuff. It makes sense – if you’re going to set a story at the most, magical time of the year, it’s almost impossible for it not to be uplifting in some fashion. Comes with the territory right? So it stands to reason that Nickelodeon’s Continue Reading
Settle in and get cosy – it’s time for A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
As cultural shadows go, they don’t come much bigger than that cast by Charles Dickens and his classic festive novel A Christmas Carol, which has been interpreted, in one form or another, by just about TV show and movie that has existed. And why not? The themes of loss, selfishness, Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I watched “The Hard Luck Kid I” (That Girl) and “The Hard Luck Kid II” (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
We are by nature a communal nature a communal species and never more so than at Christmas when the idea of being alone is anathema and we (for the most part anyway) seek out friends and family for some festive communal togetherness. That’s not always the case with some people, Continue Reading
I’m dreaming of a romantically cookie cutter festive season: James Franco hilarious parodies every Hallmark Christmas movie
SNAPSHOTEvery Christmas season, we can be sure that Hallmark Channel will have more than enough heartwarming holiday films to keep us entertained all month … And yes, these Hallmark holiday movies are super fun to watch, but we can’t help but notice they all seem a little similar. SNL hilariously Continue Reading
Santa’s in trouble? He needs some of Russell’s Christmas Magic by Rob Scotton
You’d think, given the miles he has clocked up over the many centuries that Santa has been delivering presents all around the world that he’d have the whole sleigh maintenance thing down pat. And yet, time after narratively convenient time, the big red guy’s sleigh inevitably comes a cropper, dragging Continue Reading
On 11th day of Christmas … I read An Island Christmas by Jenny Colgan #BookReview
Christmas is a pretty powerful time of the year. Or, at least, that’s the way it often seems with popular culture and some sort of giddy group consensus joining together to ordain it as the time of the year, the most wonderful time of the year in fact, when just Continue Reading
On 10th day of Christmas … I watched the movie Noelle
Unless you are someone staging a nativity play, in which case strict depiction of sacred religious truths is a virtue, there is a temptation whenever you tell a story about any aspect of Christmas’s many well-worn tropes and cliches to place your own merry, eggnog-addled spin on it. In fact, Continue Reading