Christmas in Connecticut is a perennial holiday favorite thanks to a warm and funny script and unforgettable performances from Barbara Stanwyck, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardner, and Dennis Morgan. In this fantastic farce, Stanwyck shines as a New York food writer…
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Classic Holiday Moments: A Charlie Brown Christmas
“Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree.” It was almost 60 years ago that Charlie Brown first discovered the true meaning of the holiday season when A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut. Is there…
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The director of acclaimed films like the Suspiria remake and Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino is the guest on the brand new episode of The Movies That Made Me. You can enjoy Guadagnino’s conversation about his favorite films…
Read more →Great Movie Scenes: Bill Murray Discovers the True Meaning of Christmas in “Scrooged”
A very 1980s retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Scrooged stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a successful TV exec who receives laugh-packed lessons in having holiday spirit from some antagonistic apparitions! The film ends with Cross having learned…
Read more →Open Thread: What Christmas Movie Scene Makes You Cry?
Holiday movies have a tendency to pull on our heartstrings. With that in mind, I want you to think about which seasonal movie moments have had an emotional impact on you and share them in our comments. Was it when…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story has become a beloved holiday classic since its initial (and unsuccessful) theatrical run in 1983. Thanks to multiple video rentals and TV airings, the film’s hilarious and heartfelt look at a Midwest Christmas in the 1940s, it…
Read more →Who’s Your Favorite Kirstie Alley Character?
Hollywood and the world mourns another great loss with word that veteran film and TV actress Kirstie Alley has died at the age of 71 following a brief battle with cancer. Best known for her Emmy-winning role as Rebecca Howe…
Read more →“The Movies That Made Me” Welcomes Composer Bear McCreary
Battlestar Galactica. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Walking Dead. Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. These are just a mere fraction of the many iconic projects composer Bear McCreary has worked on in…
Read more →Watch Clark Griswold Lose It in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
“We’re going to have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny f*cking Kaye!” – Clark Griswold We’ve all been there. The stresses from the holiday season can make anyone a bit on edge. But if you combine…
Read more →1982: The Year E.T. Saved Christmas
The biggest film of 1982 (if not the entirety of the ’80s) was Steven Spielberg‘s E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. The film was such a massive pop culture touchstone that it remained in theaters for months, and by the time the…
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