The Christmas Spirit’s arch-nemesis is coming to Paramount+ this year. The streaming service released a trailer for Dear Santa, an upcoming family Christmas comedy with (barely) a tinge of horror. In Dear Santa, a boy named Liam Turner writes a Christmas letter to Santa… only he misspells the na...
Read MoreAmazon may not like the smell of what the Rock is cooking. A recent article from The Wrap details a litany of production issues for Red One, the upcoming Christmas action movie starring Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Chris Evans, and while there’s blame to go around, it paints an unappealing pi...
Read MoreLast year, I wrote about what I called Christmas-adjacent movies, five films that took place at Christmas but didn’t quite qualify as full-fledged Christmas Movies. As it happens, there are quite a few films like this, many of which are great. So, here are another five flicks, in chronological ord...
Read MoreThere are many wonderful tropes in Christmas movies, but one of the most rewarding is the character who embodies the Christmas Spirit. This person is sometimes the lead and sometimes not, but always the inspiration for others to cast aside their malice and gloom and find the joy in Christmas. They a...
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