Silent Night, Bloody Night
A precursor to both Black Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978), Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) is something of an unsung classic in the Holiday Horror genre. Silent Night, Bloody Night… Read more »
‘R Xmas
Abel Ferrara’s film ‘R Xmas (2001) reprises many of the defining themes of his earlier picture King Of New York (1990). In King Of New York, Ferrara depicted a city… Read more »
The Night Before Christmas
On Christmas Eve the Devil (Georgy Millyar) descends on a remote village to stir up mischief. In the same village, the pious painter and blacksmith Vakula (Yuri Tavrov) finds his… Read more »
Surviving Christmas
When the box office bomb Surviving Christmas (2004) came to home video I was working at the local video store. It was a “mom and pop” establishment and the boss… Read more »
I Come In Peace
I Come In Peace (1990) exists somewhere between the maximalist genre spectacles of Predator 2 (1990) and the sleazy sci-fi take on the buddy cop movie of the underrated The… Read more »
The Holdovers
When The Holdovers (2023) came out in November I heard that the film was Alexander Payne’s love letter to the Hal Ashby classic The Last Detail (1973). So like any… Read more »
Christmas In My Hometown
The Christmas special has long been an integral part of the American holiday season. These schmaltzy, formulaic television movies peddle in an overt sentimentality for an America that used to… Read more »
The Man Who Came To Dinner
The Man Who Came To Dinner (1944) sees Monty Woolley reprising the title role that he originated on Broadway in the play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Woolley… Read more »
La guerre des tuques
The French-Canadian film La guerre des tuques (1984) follows a bunch of kids in rural Quebec who decide to spend their Christmas break engaging in war games. Armed with wooden… Read more »
Reindeer Games
The latter films of director John Frankenheimer can be split between great films like 52 Pick-Up (1986) or Ronin (1998) and lesser films in which the director had little at… Read more »
