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.

Grumpy Cat Could Be the Most Painful Christmas Preview Ever

So the Grumpy Cat movie appears to be about a girl who just wants a friend for Christmas. That is as good as the preview gets. From there, this movie appears about as obnoxious and boring as could be. It’s so bad, it could be good:

I am Santa Claus Debuts on Blu-ray

Mick Foley’s pet project I am Santa Claus will be released on Blu-ray this holiday season. Virgil Films & Entertainment has announced the documentary arrives on Blu-ray on November 11th. But check the kids at the door — this ain’t…
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Jimmy Stewart Remembers It’s a Wonderful Life

By Jimmy Stewart (1977) A friend told me recently that seeing a movie I made in 1946 is a holiday tradition in his family, "like putting up the Christmas tree". That movie is It's a Wonderful Life, and out of all the 80 films I've made, it's…
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Kirk Cameron is Explaining Christmas to Christians

Actor and Christian activist Kirk Cameron is a releasing a new movie in November titled Saving Christmas. While media coverage is already negative on the project the target audience appears not to be the critics and the skeptics. Cameron appears…

White Christmas Diamond Anniversary Blu Ray Announced

In an early announcement to retailers, Paramount is preparing ‘White Christmas: Diamond Anniversary Edition’ for Blu-ray on October 14: In honor of the 60th anniversaries of White Christmas and Danny Kaye’s appointment as UNICEF’s first…

Sony to Make Animated Film with Jesus Portrayed by a Lamb

Talk about your twisted logic. Sony Pictures has signed on to develop a new animated feature based on the Bible nativity story. However, the film will shoot for laughs and will feature an all-animal cast, with Jesus portrayed as a lamb. Word…

Kirk Cameron is Saving Christmas

Oh, so there IS a Christmas movie coming out this year. It’s called Saving Christmas and it looks fun. Kirk Cameron answers the critics who say that Christians stole Christmas from pagans and defends Christmas against atheists who say Christians…

Sneak Peek at Robin Williams’ Christmas Film

The sad and sudden passing of Robin Williams has thrust one of his last films into the spotlight. Releasing later this fall is Williams in “Merry Friggin’ Christmas”, a modern tale of a family Christmas in what looks like a bittersweet…

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas

With the absence of much new in the way of Christmas in 2014 Disney will step in to fill the void with a new Blu-Ray edition of Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas. Walt Disney Home Video released the film in 1999. A sequel, titled Mickey’s…

Grumpy Cat Does Christmas

Looks like Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch aren’t the only mean mugs you’ll be seeing this coming holiday season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Phoenix-based Internet sensation Grumpy Cat, a.k.a. Tardar Suace, is finally getting her…

Happy Christmas…Isn’t

Hollywood likes to make alternative Christmas movies — the more anti-Hallmark, the better. Happy Christmas, an award winner at Sundance a year ago, hits the big screen in late July and it delivers a Christmas message that belies its title.…

Anti-Claus Movie Will Be Made

Santa and his jolly traditional image is taking a beating. First the Norse version of Santa was announced as coming to the big screen and now the “anti-Santa” is coming. Deep in the mountain villages of Austria a mythical creature by the…

Neeson and Brosnan to Make A Christmas Star

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes announced last week that Hollywood stars Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan will star in a new Christmas feature film titled A Christmas Star, set to begin filming later this year. Gareth Ellis Unwin, the Oscar-winning…

Candice Glover to star in Northpole Movie by Hallmark

The Hallmark Channel tweeted, “Stunning Candice Glover is going to make our Christmas movie franchise even more spectacular.” The St. Helena Island native and American Idol winner happily confirmed the news on her Facebook page and said…

Hallmark Producing Mr. Miracle for Holiday 2014

Hallmark CHANNEL is pleased to announce that it is partnering once again with beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber to create its fourth Hallmark CHANNEL Original Holiday Movie World Premiere “Debbie Macomber’s Mr.…