Ball up your fists and load your favorite firearm because 87North is ready for action. The production company run by former stuntman and John Wick co-director David Leitch and Kelly McCormick has three films in the pipeline – not including The Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt and d...
Read MoreTurbo Man is coming back to theaters, but he’ll have a different costume this time. Deadline exclusively reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger is teaming up with Reacher star Alan Ritchson for the Christmas family comedy The Man with the Bag. The Amazon MGM Studios film finds Santa Claus enlisting th...
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...
Read MoreWith just over a week to go, Marvel has released a new trailer for What If…? season 2. This one is decidedly Christmas-themed, with an instrumental version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” playing as the trailer leads into that motif. The previous trailer was released less than a month ago, ...
Read MoreSilent Night, the newest entry in the Christmas action subgenre, is director John Woo’s first American film since 2003’s Paycheck, and I can understand his disillusionment after that one. Fortunately, Silent Night is a lot better than that, and while it’s not a classic or as good as some of W...
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