A KARATE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
A film whose “qualities” are summed up by its title
A VERY NUTTY CHRISTMAS
One of the weirder Lifetime movies I’ve seen, offering a cockeyed inversion of THE NUTCRACKER and a message that fully lives up to the “nutty” designation: that true holiday cheer is possible only through the intercession of a doll in human form
The Bad Christmas Movie
Christmas movies are eternally revered, but in recent years a (relatively) new format has gained in popularity: the Bad Christmas movie
MERRY CHRISTMAS
A Bollywood Christmas movie with everything you’d expect
STAND BY ME
In remembering the recently deceased Rob Reiner, I’ll be taking the good with the bad. Here’s the good…
NORTH
…and here’s the (very) bad.
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
A lesser film by Belgium’s Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, who specialize in uniquely tripped-out takes on European genre cinema from years past
PROFESSOR DOWELL’S HEAD
A Soviet sci fi lark from the 1920s, a far simpler time when authors tended to run riot with coincidence and weird science in pursuit of a good story
THE SHROUDS
Cronenberg’s latest, a so-so excercise in brooding despair
FILME DEMÊNCIA
A weird Faust movie in the grand tradition of weird Faust movies