Holiday Movie Club
The Holiday Movie Club, a way to avoid our families enjoy heartwarming holiday films together from about the end of Novemeber to the end of December.
Posts for this club should be tagged: holidaymovie_club.
October 31
Movie: The Holdovers
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with students who have no family plans. In select theaters, wider release Nov 10 [more inside]
July 31
Movie: The Green Knight
A fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
December 20
Movie: A Christmas Horror Story
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much darker. [more inside]
December 19
A Christmas Carol: FX's A Christmas Carol, episodes 1-3 Season 1 (Full Season)
A television adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge. (FX Channel/BBC production) [more inside]
December 17
Movie: Better Watch Out
While a suburban couples goes out to celebrate Christmas Eve, their babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old son. from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion. [more inside]
December 15
Movie: Silent Night, Deadly Night
Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by a man dressed as Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, he snaps. [more inside]
Movie: Black Christmas
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls during winter break. [more inside]
Movie: game over
Also titled: 3615 code Père Noël, Deadly Games, Dial Code Santa Claus, and Hide and Freak is a 1989 French horror-thriller film.
A killer dressed as Santa Claus breaks into house only inhabited by a young boy, Thomas, and his grandfather. [more inside]
December 24
Movie: Santa Jaws
Trying to survive the family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.
December 20
Movie: The Nutcracker
On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life.
December 18
Movie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.
December 17
Movie: Desk Set
Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network's research department. [more inside]
December 13
Movie: All the Creatures Were Stirring
On the night before Christmas, a couple on an awkward date go to see a play featuring horrific Christmas stories. [more inside]
Movie: A Christmas Carol
An old bitter miser (Patrick Stewart) who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
December 12
Movie: A Christmas Carol: The Musical
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve. Starring Kelsey Grammer, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewett, Geraldine Chaplin, Jason Alexander and Brian Bedford [more inside]
December 11
Movie: Christmas Carol
Rich Little's Christmas Carol is a TV special that premiered on Home Box Office on December 16, 1979, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1978. It starred Rich Little in a one-man performance with impersonations of his characters playing the parts in Charles Dickens famous holiday story.
December 5
Movie: Die Hard 2
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of deja vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane's smart-mouthed heroics.
December 3
Rugrats: A Rugrats Chanukah Season 4, Episode 1
The tots learn the story of Hanukkah while visiting a synagogue with Boris, who settles a long-standing feud. [more inside]
December 2
Movie: Eight Crazy Nights
Davey Stone (Adam Sandler), an alcoholic with a criminal record, is sentenced to community service under the supervision of an elderly referee. Davey is then faced with trying to reform and abandon his bad habits. [more inside]
November 29
Movie: The Princess Switch
One week before Christmas, Margaret [Vanessa Hudgens], the gorgeous Duchess of Montenaro, switches places with Stacy [Vanessa Hudgens], a "commoner" from Chicago, who looks exactly like her. With the assistance of a magical Santa's helper, Margaret falls in love with Stacy's handsome co-worker [Nick Sagar], while Stacy falls in love with Margaret's fiance, the dashing Prince [Sam Palladio]. A Netflix Original. [more inside]
November 27
Movie: The Family Stone
An uptight, conservative businesswoman [Sarah Jessica Parker] accompanies her boyfriend [Dermot Mulroney] to his eccentric and outgoing family's [Rachel McAdams, Craig T. Nelson, Diane Keaton, Luke Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Tyrone Giordano] annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life. Turning to her sister[Claire Danes] for support, hijinks, recriminations and emotional catharsis ensue. Written and directed by Thomas Bezucha [more inside]
November 25
Movie: Hannah and Her Sisters
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
November 23
Movie: Titan A.E.
A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.
November 21
Movie: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.
October 31
Movie: Halloweentown
After learning she is a witch, a girl helps save a town full of other supernatural creatures. "But Halloweentown isn't just Marnie's story: it tells the tale of three generations of women joining forces to battle against evil." Starring Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Judith Hoag, Joey Zimmerman, Phillip Van Dyke, and Emily Roeske [more inside]
August 7
Let's Organize The Holiday Movie Club for 2018
Let's Organize The Holiday Movie Club for 2018! The Holiday Movie Club is when we watch heartwarming holiday films from, approximately, American Thanksgiving weekend (starting Wednesday, 21 November) to New Years Day. What's a holiday film? A film set during the holidays, or that deals with holiday themes, or that you have a tradition of watching during the holidays.
If you have other holiday film traditions, you are welcome to post them too! [more inside]
December 28
Movie: Cthulhu
A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. The expectations placed on him by his family pile up, and he learns that home is never really what we remembered it to be. [more inside]
December 23
Movie: A Christmas Prince
Netflix delivers a new holiday film that is either a mind-numbing retread of the most egregious Lifetime/Hallmark Channel Christmas movie cliches, or a poker-faced parody of them. [more inside]
December 22
Movie: Elf
After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. [more inside]
December 21
Movie: The Hudsucker Proxy
After Hudsucker Industries President Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) commits suicide, the senior executives -led by the seniorest of them, Sidney Mussburger (Paul Newman)- install naïve business school graduate Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) as President in a play to drive the stock price down. Meanwhile, fast-talking reporter archetype Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to figure out what’s going on.
December 15
Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon. Starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki and written by John Hughes [more inside]
December 12
Movie: Scrooge
Ebeneezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) contentedly meanders through his life as a cruel miser until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghosts. The spirits show him how his behavior over the years has made him a lonely, bitter old man, and how his heart has grown colder. Using events from Scrooge's idealistic past, dreary present and dismal future, the apparitions try their best to melt his steely soul. Tightfisted Ebeneezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of the three spirits and, just in time for the holidays, manages to make everyone's lives a little brighter, his included! Released as A Christmas Carol in the USA. [more inside]
December 8
Movie: Bad Santa
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham and Bernie Mac. [more inside]
November 30
Movie: The Long Kiss Goodnight
The comfortably drab life of a working mom [GEENA DAVIS] becomes a nightmare when she finds herself pursued by an assassin who seems to know more about her cloudy past than she does. Frightened by the attack and by some disturbing memories that have resurfaced, she seeks assistance from a private detective [SAMUEL L. JACKSON]. [more inside]
November 28
Movie: Gremlins
A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. [more inside]
November 24
Movie: Home for the Holidays
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics. [more inside]
August 2
Holiday Club 2017
It's time to organize the Holiday Movie Club for 2017! [more inside]
December 20
Movie: Tokyo Godfathers
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents. [more inside]
December 19
Movie: The Box
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
December 16
Movie: Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas. [more inside]
December 8
Movie: Brazil
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. Written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin and Kim Greist [more inside]
December 5
Movie: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
After snarky youth Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) loses track of his father at the airport, he mistakenly gets on a plane headed for New York City -- while the rest of the McCallisters fly to Florida. Now alone in the Big Apple, Kevin cons his way into a room at the Plaza Hotel and begins his usual antics. But when Kevin discovers that the Sticky Bandits (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) are on the loose, he struggles to stop them from robbing an elderly man's toy store just before Christmas.
December 1
Movie: Ernest Saves Christmas
Lovable bumbler Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor. Trailer. [more inside]
November 26
Movie: Scent of a Woman
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
Directed by Martin Brest, starring Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnel [more inside]
October 31
Movie: Hocus Pocus
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all. [more inside]
October 27
2016 Holiday Movie Club
With November fast approaching, let's plan for the 2016 Holiday Movie Club! [more inside]
Holiday Movie Club 2016
With November fast approaching, let's plan for the 2016 Holiday Movie Club! [more inside]
February 15
Movie: Twelve Monkeys
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. [more inside]
December 31
Movie: Dinner for One
Elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, with the help of her manservant James, celebrates another year, toasting friends present, and friends absent. [more inside]
December 26
Movie: The Santa Clause
When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
December 25
Movie: The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.
December 24
Movie: Scrooged
Frank Cross is a selfish, cynical T.V. executive whose plans include a live broadcast of "A Christmas Carol" on Christmas Eve. He is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
December 21
Movie: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up! This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus. Finnish trailer , American trailer [more inside]
Movie: Love Actually
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
December 18
Movie: Lethal Weapon
A veteran cop, Murtaugh, is partnered with a young suicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common; hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers.
December 13
Movie: A Carol for Another Christmas
Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers star in this Rod Serling written and Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." It's "much darker than the average Christmas special." [more inside]
December 11
Movie: The Bishop's Wife
A bishop trying to get a new cathedral built prays for guidance. An angel arrives, but his guidance isn't about fundraising. [more inside]
December 8
Movie Suggestions
Propose movies for the HMC here. [more inside]
Movie: Krampus
Max is a true believer who has become jaded with Christmas. As his extended family visits for what promises to be a terrible three day celebration, Max makes a wish that he soon begins to regret. Krampus is the new holiday horror film from director Michael Dougherty. [more inside]
December 7
Movie: Home Alone
An 8-year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation. [more inside]