But what about the rest of us? How do we deal with the holiday blues? Here are a few tips to help you get through the festive season:
Make sure you have plenty of festive cheer in your life. This means eating healthy, getting enough sleep, and spending time with loved ones.
Get out and enjoy the Christmas season. Go on walks, go to markets, or take a trip to a Christmas market.
Get involved in some fun activities that will help you get through the holiday season. For example, go ice skating or go snowboarding on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day.
The Christmas Carol This movie is so bad that it’s actually a remake of an old story. It’s not even good, and it’s not even Christmas-themed. Avoid it if you can.
The Nightmare Before Christmas This movie is terrible and doesn’t even have aChristmas-themed scene in it. Avoid it if you can.
The Addams Family This movie is terrible and doesn’t even have aChristmas-themed scene in it either. Avoid it if you can.
Father Christmas is Back (Netflix)
Kelsey Grammar stars as James Christmas in this British comedy, an absentee father who turns up at the door of his family after 27 years away. He needn’t have bothered coming back, as this family is awful. Like the movie itself, they are not funny, not clever, and definitely don’t contain any Christmas spirit. ..
The cast of this poorly written and poorly acted movie is as wooden as a forest full of Christmas trees. The script is to blame for the leaden acting.
The upper-class family gathers at Christmas and the various squabbles that exist between them are relatable to those of us who have to endure our own family arguments during the festive season. Though not many of us have the luxury of a country manor, this plot might be relatable to those of us who have something in common with the characters. ..
John Cleese is not in the film. This is a movie about people. The people in this movie are not John Cleese.
Home Sweet Home Alone (Disney+)
Despite the mostly negative reviews this movie has received, I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. This isn’t to say it’s a classic, far from it, but compared to Father Christmas is Back, this is at least worth a watch if you’re in a forgiving mood (which you should be at Christmas anyway), as there is a light sprinkling of funny moments. ..
However, if you’re a die-hard fan of Home Alone and Home Alone 2, you’re going to be disappointed. In fact, you might fall on the side of the critics who have heaped scorn and criticism on this belated sequel. Archie Yates, who was so good in JoJo Rabbit, doesn’t have the same charm as Macauley Culkin, and the plotting of the movie is actually quite upsetting. ..
In “Home Alone 3,” the people trying to break into Kevin’s home are trying to reclaim a valuable German doll that they think Max (Yates) has stolen from them. They are doing this because they need the money to save their family from eviction. As such, our sympathies lie more with them and not with Max. This surely isn’t the point of a Home Alone movie! ..
This family movie is passable, but it pale imitation of the Culkin classics. Still, it’s infinitely better than Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, so that’s a plus! ..
Black Christmas (2019) (Netflix)
The 2019 Black Christmas remake is a terrible movie that you should avoid if you can.
The new slasher movie, “The House on Sorority Row,” is a good watch. The cast, including Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes, is very good. This movie is not as exploitative as similar entries in the genre. ..
Despite the potential for a decent movie, what we get is a box-ticking horror. In its attempts to be ‘woke,’ with feminist themes and targeted points about toxic masculinity, there is some originality. But in all other aspects, the movie serves up exactly what you’re expecting, with endless scenes of people running around, suspenseless killings, and an eventual unmasking that does little to surprise. Scooby-Doo had more scares than this! ..
Despite the unlikable characters at the core of the movie, 2003’s Bad Santa was a very funny comedy, with a career change of pace for Billy Bob Thornton as Willie Stokes, the alcoholic con artist who plotted his schemes while dressed up as Santa. The movie was tasteless, irreverent, and in perfect contrast to the sickly sweet festive movies we tend to get landed with during the Christmas season.
The sequel to last year’s terrible movie is even worse. It’s filled with recycled gags, a boring plot, and actors that mostly seem to be going through the motions. The movie starts off where we left off last time, with Willie drunk and desperate to look for his next con, and once again he teams up with his partner, Willie.
This movie is not particularly funny, but it does have some good moments. The main character, Willie, is a bit of a loner and his Mum (Kathy Bates) doesn’t add much to the plot. However, the other characters do well and there are some good laughs along the way.
The film could have been good but it is marred by lazy writing and a lack of character development. This makes the movie as lame as a Christmas cracker joke. ..
My advice is to avoid the 2003 movie, which is a waste of time.
This movie is a bore, with no real excitement or wonder to it. It details the misfortune of an unlucky group of characters, including Patrick Stewart’s bombastic billionaire, who get stuck inside various Manhattan elevators after a power cut. Will they escape their accidental captivity before Christmas Day? In reality, you won’t really care.
The cast, including Stewart, Gary Cole, and Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder, do their best with what little they have. There are passable attempts to convey typical festive messages that hinge on human destiny and Scrooge-like changes of heart, but this is by the numbers stuff. There are far better ensemble movies out there, such as Love Actually and Happiest Season, and they have far more wit and charm than this Christmas turkey.
If you want to see Patrick Stewart in a festive movie, rewatch his turn as Ebenezer Scrooge in 1999’s A Christmas Carol. It is a more thoughtful and introspective take on the holiday season than this tired fiasco and it is the perfect movie to spend your time with this Christmas Eve. ..
This movie is a disaster. It’s so bad, it’s almost unwatchable. The story is terrible, the acting is terrible, and the special effects are terrible. It’s not even funny. ..
The story is about a boy who believes if he earns a black belt by Christmas Day his father will return. This mystery is then unraveled across the painful 80 minute run-time, complete with bad acting, low-budget visuals and a very questionable plot. Out of all the Christmas movies out there, this is perhaps the worst. It’s also well-deserving of its 2.6/10 rating on IMDB!
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