Christmas Movies

Christmas movies are just an extraordinary extension of the great storytelling tradition of Christmas. In lands far and wide one of the key entertainment elements of the season has always been storytelling and nothing tells the stories of Christmas better than a mash-up of film, music and script that make up great Christmas movies. Did you know that one of the first movies ever made way back in 1898 was in fact a Christmas movie? We have on record well over a century of Christmas on film. We explore them all — from It’s a Wonderful Life to Elf — both old and new and Christmas movies yet to come. We feel that if Dickens were to have lived to the age of film in the 20th century he would have left us more great Christmas stories to enjoy on film today.

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Hallmark Christmas Movie Countdown Begins on Halloween

Hallmark's traditional Countdown to Christmas kicks off on Halloween as part of their drive to bring 16 new Christmas movies to television audiences this holiday season. Thanksgiving weekend will see five new movies make their debut: Tis…
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Stuff You Did Not Know About Christmas Vacation

Nothing cools a summer heat wave better than a Christmas movie in July. And no movie is seemingly most appropriate for early season viewing than Christmas Vacation -- that John Hughes classic from 1989 that never seems to age. The great…
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Mariah Carey Making Christmas Movie for Hallmark

As we reported earlier this year Mariah Carey is hoping to revitalize her career with another shot at Christmas. Hallmark confirms today that she will do it with song both in front and behind the camera. Carey will direct Mariah Carey's Christmas…
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Yet Another Krampus Christmas Horror Flick Coming

On December 4th, 2015 -- just before St. Nicholas Day -- the movie Krampus will debut. Loosely based on the ancient character of Christmas nightmares, Krampus, the new movie has a plot that won't be giving you visions of sugar plums: When…
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Elf on the Shelf Terror Film in the Works

What is it with Christmas-themed slasher films? It seems all the rage and yet another film maker is proposing a project that now makes the Elf on the Shelf the perpetrator of Christmas terror. Called "Terror on the Shelf" the project listed…
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Seth Rogen Christmas Comedy Not for the Timid

Sony Pictures just released the first trailer for the only Christmas-themed movie coming out in 2015 -- the comedy starring Seth Rogen now titled "The Night Before". The online-only preview is filled with profanity and inappropriate for general…
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William Shatner Brings Horror to Christmas

The Christmas movie genre is in a bit of a rut with several years having passed now without a major studio release of a holiday-themed tale. And while 2015 will go down in history as just another year of that drought it may also be earmarked…
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Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas to Debut on BluRay

In mid-December 2014 NBC aired a stop motion animated special called Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas, based on the 2003 hit movie titled Elf. The television special was well received by critics and seen by millions. The holiday musical movie…
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Mr. Krueger’s Christmas Day

Today is May 22nd, 2015 and there are only 217 days until Christmas. This week has been an epic celebration in the countdown to Christmas. It kicked off with Frank Capra's birthday and featured as well the birthday of James Stewart. On…
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Bad Santa 2 to Begin Filming Soon

According to multiple sources Bad Santa is getting a sequel and Billy Bob Thornton will be back to play the most pathetic figure of Santa Claus ever put on film. Entourage director Doug Ellin told Collider that his plans following the work…

A Meyers Christmas Set for Release

There is a new Christmas movie in the works and it will release November 11, 2016. Titled A Meyers Christmas the movie tells the story of an estranged family who reunites over Christmas for the first time since their mother died. Writer/director…
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Glenn Beck’s Immortal Santa Claus

The movie business is soon to release several movies showing the tough side of Santa. Sony Pictures is soon to release Winter's Knight, a take on the Viking tradition of Santa. Other filmmakers are working The Anti-Claus, a film about the dark…

Peanuts 2015 Preview

In the absence of any real film of substance this Christmas it is refreshing to see a little glimpse of what has been rumored for Christmas 2015 for some time. Mashable talked about it today and lo and behold the trailer magically appeared a…
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Movie Review: White Christmas

By Danny Gould Writing movie reviews 65-years after a movie has been released and become a classic isn't fair. How do you diss a classic? But let's be honest. White Christmas might today be considered a classic and it might be beloved…
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Jimmy Stewart’s Other Christmas Movie

In a 1980 production of a low budget and not-so widely distributed film directed by Academy Award winning director Keith Merrill, Jimmy Stewart gives the holiday performance of a lifetime. Unlike that other Christmas movie (It’s a Wonderful…