Strangely, About a Boy strays from the romance category and embraces a whole catalog of love. The Weitz brothers — Paul and Chris Weitz — don’t limit the film to the romantic side of love, a …
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PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ and ‘Soul’ Lead a Packed Christmas Slate
by Nick Kushby Nick KushFor all the movies that have been pushed back this year, Christmas Day felt like a return to normalcy with releases such as Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, The Midnight Sky, Promising Young Woman, and We Can …
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Fatman is an R-rated action movie starring Mel Gibson as Santa Claus… I can already feel many people shaking their heads. But, if you’re more like me, you might think this has the potential to …
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HorrorReviews
FrightFest Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘The Nights Before Christmas’
by Lisa Geurtsby Lisa GeurtsWatching a Christmas film around Halloween felt a little odd; however, scary stuff mixed with Christmas is an excellent combination. It’s still a common phenomenon to share ghost stories at Christmas time, after all. Let’s …
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Top 10 Lists
Ten Christmas Movie Scenes to Make Your Heart Grow Three Sizes
by Jen Seggioby Jen SeggioChristmas comes once a year, meaning there are many holiday films we love watching on repeat throughout December. For some, it’s not Christmas until Buddy The Elf screams for Santa or Hans Gruber drops from …
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Sexual assault inflicted upon women in the United States of America is a national epidemic. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) reports that 23.1% of undergraduate female students aged 18-24 experience rape or …
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Streaming ReviewsStreaming Romance
‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby’ is Too Stupid to Handle
by Brian Connorby Brian ConnorWhen Netflix released the first A Christmas Prince, its success seemed to take even the streaming giant itself by surprise. To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 …
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Streaming ComedyStreaming Reviews
‘Holiday in the Wild’ is a Silly, Unrealistic Romance for Festive Moviegoers
by Erin Winansby Erin Winans‘Tis the season for typical Christmas movies in which there is always a lead male and female that are destined to fall in love. Of course, before the happy ending can be achieved, something bad …
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Retrospectives
Laurel and Hardy’s ‘Babes in Toyland’ Is the Best Version
by Jen Seggioby Jen SeggioThis past Thanksgiving weekend, I revisited a piece of my childhood almost untouched by time. A movie that, despite its age and subject, wears down the walls of cynicism, makes me forget the troubles of …
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Streaming AnimationStreaming Reviews
‘Klaus’ is a Christmas Miracle for 2D Animation
by Jen Seggioby Jen SeggioAs someone who pines for the days of hand-drawn animation, I’ve watched for updates on Sergio Pablos’ Klaus like a hawk. Pablos, a former Disney animator, has worked on this film for the better part …
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With a title like ”I Trapped the Devil”, you know it’s not going to be a romantic comedy. It will either be some low-budget, generic horror film or a low-budget horror movie gem. In either …
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Where do you draw the line between calling something “watchable” and “good“? That’s the dilemma I had after watching Jennifer Lopez’s latest rom-com Second Act. It simply oozes love and Christmas spirit yet it has more head …
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Just in time for the holidays comes this wondrous recipe for peace and joy all the year through. Take one part Wicked, two parts Shaun of the Dead, and a dash of Christmas, and you …
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Nobody asked for Once Upon a Deadpool. There was no need for Once Upon a Deadpool. However, Disney takes over Fox in less than a month and so the studio, like Deadpool in the first …
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Christmas is fast approaching, and as much as I am looking forward to the festivities, I know that when Christmas finally comes, it will be over way too soon. At this point, I find myself …
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There’s a running joke in my house started by my sweet mother that anything can be a Christmas movie if you make enough harebrained connections in your head. Does the movie include Christmas at some …
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Streaming AnimationStreaming Reviews
Film Review – Angela’s Christmas (2018)
by Olaf Lesniakby Olaf LesniakNetflix put out a new animated movie just in time for the Christmas season entitled Angela’s Christmas. This movie isn’t anything groundbreaking, but since it’s only 30 minutes long and you’re probably sick of watching Elf or Home Alone for the fiftieth time, …
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Now that we’ve emerged from our respective Thanksgiving food comas, and braved Black Friday, our brains shift over to the winter setting. As the Holiday season looms overhead, we are inundated with feel-good movies of …
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Can you believe Christmas is in a month’s time? I hope it’s starting to get charming and picturesque where you are, because all we have here in Singapore is Monsoon weather. And when Christmas is …
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In 1984, Bill Murray took a long four-year break from acting after his success in Ghostbusters. His big return saw him facing down some very different ghosts — those of the Dickensian sort. Directed by Richard …
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Commercialism and name recognition exist, so we were bound to get another Grinch-centric movie at some point after Ron Howard‘s How the Grinch Stole Christmas slowly faded away from the collective memory of the casual moviegoer. (It has certainly …
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I’ve always had a soft spot for Tchaikovsky’s perennial ballet The Nutcracker. This is mainly due to my introduction through Disney’s Fantasia, one of my favorite movies of all time. So when Disney announced they …
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The Holiday Calendar is part of Netflix’s Christmas offering for the year, starring the lovely Kat Graham from The Vampire Diaries. This movie proves, undoubtedly, that there is a formula to making such Christmas movies. …
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As November gets into full swing, more Hollywood studios are beginning to forget about Thanksgiving and head right into the Christmas season. This time, Paramount is the culprit as they’ve released Daddy’s Home 2, the …
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Last year, many were delightfully surprised with Bad Moms, a raunchy comedy that did surprisingly well at the box office, prompting STX Entertainment to quickly re-up the entire cast for another go-around to put together another …
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Christmas has brought us some wonderful movies over the years that increase that festive feeling that we all know and love. With that in mind, I thought it be fun to explore the top 10 …