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Donna Reed (left), James Stewart and young Karolyn Grimes in the 1946 original, It s a Wonderful Life. ( Paramount Pictures)
Ho-ho-ho! Planning to watch a movie or two with your loved ones during the holidays? Luckily, from rom-coms and dramas to comedies and even thrillers, we ve compiled a list of the ultimate Christmas movies. And guess what? The gang s all here: Buddy the Elf, Ralphie Parker, George Bailey, Ebenezer Scrooge, the Muppets and, of course, jolly old Saint Nick.
So kick back, relax and get comfy on the couch. After all, you deserve a break after buying all those holiday gifts. Cheers!
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Get Your Reps In: With Christmas Coming Up, We’ve Selected a Coterie of Essential Holiday Classics We also threw in one nonessential yet nevertheless sweet and worthwhile new release. Updated December 22, 2020 While local rep theaters are out of commission, we ll be putting together weekly watchlists of films that are readily available to stream. With Christmas coming up, we ve selected a coterie of four essential holiday classics, headlined by one nonessential yet nevertheless sweet and worthwhile new release.
What s Wisconsin s favorite Christmas movie? It depends on the data-crunching Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
So, is Wisconsin Team George or Team Kevin?
A sleighful of surveys have surfaced calculating which Christmas movies are most popular in which states. Maybe it s another sign of how divided Wisconsin is, but they don t agree on the Badger State s favorite. It s a Wonderful Life. To make its pick, the site mined data from Google and Rotten Tomatoes, the movie-review aggregator.
They won t get any argument from Comparitech, a website that evaluates search engines and other tech stuff. Comparitech also says the 1946 classic about small-town banker George Bailey (James Stewart) wishing on Christmas Eve that he d never been born is Wisconsin s No. 1 Christmas movie. The site did its ciphering using Google Trends and searching for the top 50 Christmas films on IMDb.com, Internet Movie Database.
ONTD Original: Favorite Scenes from Holiday Movies
I m back, back, back again! While we were deciding the The Best Holiday Movie, a lot of people talked about some of their favorite scenes and I got inspired to make a post! Check out some of my favorite scenes/monologues from holiday movies and feel free to add your own in the comments.
Last Holiday - Table for One
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) has been told that she has weeks left to live after a CAT scan reveals tumors in her brain. Determined to live the rest of her life to the fullest, she travels to the Grandhotel Pupp in Czech Republic to eat at the restaurant of her favorite chef, Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu).
It’s the time of year when we settle in to rewatch our favorite holiday classics. Beyond
Meet Me in St. Louis and
Miracle on 34th Street, there is plenty of old Hollywood fare that is worth revisiting year after year.
It Happened on 5th Avenue, for instance. Produced and directed by
Roy Del Ruth, the 1947 Allied Artists comedy holds all of the trimmings of a delightful holiday picture that’ll tug at your heartstrings in the process. And while hardly an obscure Christmas movie, it does have an interesting history connected to one of the most famous holiday films of all time.