Tag: 2015 year end

Here’s another movie to add to your list of movies to watch around Christmas (or, really, any time you need a pick-me-up). Scrooged is one of my favorite Bill Murray films. It’s also one of my favorite Richard Donner films. And one of my favorites re-tellings of A Christmas Carol. It’s a comedy with a ton…

There may be no place like home for the holidays, but to get there, a lot of us have to hit the road first. As is the case with any travel-heavy holiday, there’s a high chance of adventure–either pleasant or un–to be had while going over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house.…

Banter is one of those things I really dig in movies and TV. Some actors really nail banter. Dennis Leary and Kevin Spacey are two of those actors. And they’re both at the top of their game in The Ref. (Which happens to be a Christmas movie, in case you didn’t know.) Family gatherings at the…

“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” Words spoken by a man who’s traveled across the country to spend the holidays with his ex-wife and daughter. He stopped in at her company Christmas party. Things went… poorly. That (kind of) sums up the basic setup for one of my favorite…

I love most episodes of The Twilight Zone (both the original and the “new” one from 1985-ish… we don’t talk much about that 2002-ish version, better to pretend there were only one or two episodes of that). There’s one particular episode, though, that I really try to watch around Christmas. The Night of the Meek is high…