Christmas · Films: C · Reviews: C
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The ultimate family holiday film, playing on both the heart strings and the horror to capture a genuine Christmas spirit.
Category: Reviews: A-E
Christmas · Films: D · Reviews: D
Die Hard
Marks the peak of the 1980’s action boom that made mega-stars out of the likes of Ah-nuld, Stallone and Van Damme.
Christmas · Films: E · Reviews: E
Elf
A hilarious holiday film in which Ferrell continues to play the same adorable, naive persona he’s adopted as his shtick.
Christmas · Films: E · Reviews: E
Ernest Saves Christmas
A reminder [that] movies don’t always have to be deep or artful to be enjoyable. Sometimes all you need is fun and a short nostalgia fix.
Christmas · Films: A · Reviews: A
All I Want for Christmas
Generic at its core, the idea behind the movie is valiant enough but happy themes aren’t enough to carry an otherwise boring film.
Christmas · Films: B · Reviews: B
Black Christmas
If nothing else, Black Christmas will always be remembered as the inferior older brother to Clark’s other Christmas flick, the Tito of the Jackson clan.
Alien
Scott can still get me to jump by putting me almost on edge and then throwing me overboard with a small but loud hiss or from something that leaps out of the darkness.
Expiration
While I sometimes found myself scratching my head a little, Heffernan provides just enough information to keep the intrigue at a maximum.
The Big Slaughter Club
It’s crazy, I’ll give it that. There’s also a fair number of campy bits. But there’s also a lot of garbage mixed in.
Bus 174
Takes a single event that is compelling on its own and then takes it that much further by raising a question that’s easy to ask but not always easy to answer – why?
