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    A lusty lesbian yuletide romp is to be had in the closet-busting Happiest Season 2020



    Not in the same league as the very classy Carol 2015

    Lightweight rom-com by comparison with some caricature characterisation but lots of fun. Kristen Stewart is always good

    There is even a (very) gay guy and 2 drag queens in this one to keep everyone happy

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    Fatman 2020

    Strange mash-up between a seasonal Santa Claus movie and an action thriller which somehow does not quite hit whatever target it was aiming at.



    A rather grim Mel Gibson makes for an unseasonally depressing Kris Kringle
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    A Christmas Carol 2009



    Dicken's classic tale brings a ghostly gothic edge to the colourful crimbles and this is my favourite version

    Zemeckis breathes new life into what had perhaps become a tired tale in some of the retellings over the decades

    This version has a carefully graduated redemption of the soul of Ebenezer

    The ghost of Christmas present skilfully weaves in a taste of secularist celebration to the culturally traditional ideas

    The epic trials of Scrooge are more of a carnival than in any other big screen adaptation

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    Gremlins for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by reinvented View Post
    Gremlins
    I have never seen Gremlins so I should give it a whirl (did not even know it was a crimbler)

    Another famous crimble flick I had somehow also never seen (until yesterday) was Home Alone (I am catching up on Christmas this year)



    Quite an enjoyable caper.

    Seems to have dated nicely into something vaguely classic.

    Good to see Joe Pesci. I never knew he was in it or I would have cranked it up it years ago.

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    Fucking loads of Xmas tosh here.

    Christmas Movies Download | 1337x

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    I enjoyed The Green Knight very much.

    On balance, it probably has more style than substance, but it poses interesting philosophical questions along the way in the unusual arc of its story, which begins and ends on 2 Christmas days one year apart.

    I could easily watch this again which is the mark of a movie worth saving to the hard drive catalogue.

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    A Boy Called Christmas

    This a cut above the standard crimble flick with an imaginative origin story for our hero from Lapland

    Top cast with Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith Toby Jones and Sally Hawkins.

    This flick goes above and beyond in the cause of inclusivity and diversity by making the young Santa a ginger.

    8/10

    Easily tips the bar for the 'rewatch next year' category

    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Netflix’s Christmas Chronicles and Christmas Chronicles 2 are fun movies. Kurt Russel (heart throb) is Santa and Goldie Hawn is Mrs. Clause.

    The second one with Darby Camp was my favorite of the two.
    I am going to go the other way on this one.

    I watched the first one last year and thought it was pretty decent although not quite premiership.

    I watched the follow up last week and it is a couple more notches off the pace for me. Good fun and watchable but the elves a are bit too cutesy so part 1 edges it in my ledger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    I can shorten the Aphroditean mistletoe odds on Miss Mini Minx a bit

    She resurfaced via SMS to say she was coming over when she finished work.

    Upon arrival she mummified herself in a blanket and fell into a deep sleep on the sofa.

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    I had to play my Christmas carols on whisper quiet mode so as not to rouse my little Turin enshrouded Christmas elf from rainbow unicorn land.

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    As usual. I don't think mine has ever finished a movie.

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    An absolute classic!

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    Zulu
    Von Ryan's Express
    The Great Escape
    Toy Story
    Despicable me
    Chitty Chitty bang bang

    All firm favs every year at Chez Chitty.

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    There has to be a Bond movie.

    Obviously The Man With The Golden Gun fits the bill.

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    Elle 2016

    The story takes place over Christmas but not a 100% Christmassy movie.

    A French lady proves to be a tough character when she is raped by a masked intruder in her home.

    Sharp dialogue and capricious characters in the best tradition of French cinema

    You really want to know what the characters are going to do next unlike so many movies these days

    Not sure if the denouement is quite up the measure of the film as a whole but very engaging overall

    8/10

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    It was 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas', which I thought was pretty shite to be honest.
    Never seen it and not on the watch list

    I did watch The Grinch 2018 at the weekend.

    Not a stonewall animation classic but passable fun.

    They appear to be using the unique and very clever Pentatonix arrangement for God Rest Ye Merry Genticles



    Although it seems to be different performers compared to the original



    I was getting my kringle on and dancing to this tonight. The only Christmas carol arrangement I think that is actually danceable

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    I was googling for new Crimbo movies and I found A Christmas Story Christmas

    This is apparently a sequel to a much beloved Merkin munchkin movie

    So on Saturday I had to obtain the original first for continuity

    The original A Christmas Story 1983 is an odd ball but likeable comedy set in 1940 about a 10 year old boy's Christmas tribulations with voiceover narration by the adult boy.

    The heavily dated highlight being a hilarious rendition of chinese waiters trying to sing Christmas carols with chinese accents when the family ends up going out for dinner!


    7/10

    On Sunday I fired up the sequel A Christmas Story Christmas 2022 which is a sequel set in 1973 when the boy grows up and has his own family. The first thing that struck me was how much the adult character actually resembled the boy in the original. Some googling revealed it to be the same actor.

    Similar oddball comedy tone and reasonably good fun


    7/10


    Tonight I watch The Knight Before Christmas 2019 about a medieval knight who time travels from 1334 England to 2019 Ohio

    Pretty obvious seasonal girly romance ensues. It is quite watchable and fun even for a bloke so dig this one out for your lady



    6.5/10

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    I was going to take a break from Christmas tonight with with The Inisherin Banshee.



    A bit of an oddball mixed bag and not as satisfying as the rave reviews would have you believe (6.5/10) so I was happy when it finished to go through my Crimbo back catalog for 2022 for a chaser

    Started with You Make it Feel Like Christmas 2021 but I gave up not far in when I sensed some clumsy racial-awareness posturing being woven into the story.

    I also gave up on Scrooge: A Christmas Carol 2022 when Bob Cratchitt was black.



    I need a holiday from wokology during the Crimble season so I went for The Holiday 2006.



    I was keen to see Jude Law after his Popish exploits. Very old school girly girly crimbler. Only half way through but a bit of saccharin crimbler was nice after the Inisherin grumbler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    I also gave up on Scrooge: A Christmas Carol 2022 when Bob Cratchitt was black.
    It was unseasonally scroogeley of me to dismiss this out of hand based on wokeness warning so I went back to it tonight.

    I am loathe go past a Scrooge movie as it is my favourite part of Christmas. And I am glad I went back as I had erred in my judgement. Bob Cratchitt is actually as white as the driven snow in this adaptation.

    It plays fast and loose with the narrative so when I flicked through on my woke-check and saw Scrooge chatting to a gentleman of colour in the first scene it was in fact a wholly new (and therefore nontraditional) character, which is 80% forgiveable (vs a traditionally white character being black - which is cultural appropriation)

    Anyway this one is actually a lot of fun.

    I do not like musicals in general (and the 1970 Scrooge with Albert Finney is one of my least favourites) but this one has a lot of fizz (not unlike last years Jingle Jangle Christmas Cracker Movies) and the liberties it takes with quite a number of beloved narrative details are quite well handled.

    I have just finished the original book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and it is fun to see how much of the many film adaptations are based on fact and also fun to read details in the book that have not made it into any movie adaptations that I am aware of

    e.g. the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Ebenezer out to sea to see the crew on a fishing boat

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    I am in the Christmas carol groove this week and knocked over a new one tonight

    2020 verison with Andy Serkis voicing Marley (not the rather dour TV version where Serkis plays GOCP)

    A Christmas Carol (2020 film) - Wikipedia

    This one is the other side of the coin from yesterdays glitzy 2022 fun fest (7.3/10)

    This is stylish and understated adaptation. It is a narrated version where a grandmother reads an abridged version of the original text to her grandchildren while they act the parts with a diorama and puppets. The puppets then come alive as ballet dancers play the parts without actually speaking.


    Very original approach and a great addition to the genre. Although it it does not quite animate itself with the same level of emotional involvement you get from some of the other ones.

    7.8/10

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Watched Get Santa last night. Enjoyed that. Broadbent was an excellent Santa Clause.
    Gave this another spin lastnight. It is premier league. A banker for an annual rewatch.


    Knocked off The 12 Days of Christmas Eve



    A kind of low rent Groundhog Day Scroogely redemption mash-up starring the quite good Frasier actor, although the movie itself is pretty basic 6/10

    The cute lady playing his daughter is actually Kelsey Grammers real daughter.

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    Gremlins for me
    Somehow I got through the 1980s and every decade since then without ever seeing Gremlins. Pretty good fun and glad to have finally got round to it, although Christmas is really a backdrop rather than a theme.

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    Nice to start the jingly season with a quality offering...

    The Holdovers



    Paul Giamatti delivers as the grouchy googly-eyed history teacher in a Christmas lockin.
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    what does 'googly-eyed' mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    what does 'googly-eyed' mean?
    Try googlying it.

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    I missed this one from last year.



    I am sucker for any Scrooge adaptation so my bar is set low.

    This was a bit high energy and zany in the manner of the Bill Murray one:

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    Quite energetic and frenetic and a good turn from Bill Murray as always but not really a Christmas classic on my scoresheet

    Tonight I am watching Scrooged 1988
    But Will Ferrells is more fun and more watchable than the 1988 effort

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