Dec 25, 2021
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the 1954 classic Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. With a power house of Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen staring in this musical romantic comedy. Paramount pictures releasing this as the first film in VistaVision became a yearly tradition in...
Dec 19, 2021
Today we are talking about one of my Christmas favorites starring Reece Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn from 2008. This film about a couple who is forced to visit their four sets of divorced parents on Christmas and the comedy hijinks that ensue. Set in San Francisco makes it extra. Four families, one day, no mercy.
Dec 12, 2021
The Stone family unites in common cause when their favorite son brings his uptight girlfriend home for the Christmas holiday, with plans of proposing. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications. (IMDB summary)
Ben Stone: [to Meredith]...
Dec 5, 2021
Today we are talking about the 2003 holiday favorite directed by Jon Favreau starring Will Farrell, James Caan and Mary Steenburgen. Raised as an over-sized elf, Buddy, a human travels from the North Pole to NYC to meet his biological father who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas...
Nov 28, 2021
Today we are talking about the 1996 Peter Segal film My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon, James Garner and Dan Ackroyd. The film pairs two of Hollywood’s legends Garner and Lemmon as former presidents and rivals who have to join forces to expose the current president’s corruption.
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