I am a comic book nerd, and a huge fan of movie adaptations of same, and yet the Thor movie (even with Kenneth Brannagh in the director’s chair and Kirk’s daddy playing the man himself) never really sparked my interest. But even my apathy couldn’t survive this surprisingly intriguing trailer, which manages to even make […]
Despite my unabiding love for all things Christmas related, I mostly thought this week’s Glee was inconsistent and goofy (although I can never have enough Grinch parodies in my life). However, how freaking fantastic was that Baby It’s Cold Outside number between Kurt and Blaine? I’m madly in love with Darren Criss (and have been […]
See, as a young half-jewish girl growing up in an agnostic household, Christmas never meant Jesus or church or choir or even cross-country slogs to relatives houses. Christmas meant, more often than not, setting up the house with the perfect mixture of 92% Christmas decorations and 8% Channukah decorations and then cozying up on the […]
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is definitely one of my all time favorite holiday movies. The story is of a criminal (Robert Downey Jr.) who, through a series of misadventures ends up being groomed to play a Private Eye for a Hollywood movie, and gets caught up in a real life film noir involving a murdered […]
The Holiday, in many ways, is exactly what people are complaining about when they bemoan the death of the modern romantic comedy. It is about to unlucky in love women who swap houses for the Christmas holiday and subsequently meet new men and have their lives change. Along the way, the women flop about, drink […]
Today I indulged in a double feature of movies that I have always associated with Christmas, even if they’re not the typical type that grace best of Christmas lists. But both of the following films have famous climactic scenes that take place during the Christmas holiday and that wouldn’t have the same poignancy without their […]
So far I’ve dealt only with Christmas movies that I’ve loved. This installment is one that kind of takes me aback a little bit when I watch it: The Family Stone. If you don’t remember The Family Stone, or if it doesnt grace your beloved Christmas-movies list, I don’t blame ya. It came out in […]
The character of Rachel has really been problematic on Glee since its inception, since she walks that fine line between annoying and amusingly annoyingly, and in its first season, far too often fell on the annoying side. But so far, this season has treated Rachel with a much more even hand. It turns out that […]