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The Moment in It's a Wonderful Life That Absolutely Destroys Me as a Dad

I had to become a dad to be able to appreciate the single most heart-breaking moment in It’s a Wonderful Life.

The Rancid 2006 Dark Comedy Deck the Halls Is Ho, Ho Horrible!

One of you kind souls paid me to suffer through the curdled 2006 Christmas comedy Deck the Halls, which is just like DeVito’s classic dark comedies except that it’s fucking terrible.

The Christmas Shoes Sequel The Christmas Blessing is Irresistibly Maudlin in that Deeply Imitable Christmas Movie Kind of Way

My patron-funded exploration of the films of disgraced Noxzema girl Rebecca Gayheart continues with a maudlin 2005 Christmas tear-jerker that’s a sequel to a TV movie based on the famously treacly Christmas song “The Christmas Shoes.”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 28, 2023Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Lowe, Rebecca Gayheart, Christmas, TV movies

2017's The Christmas Train is Nuclear-Grade Yuletide Schmaltz

Danny Glover is MAX POWERS (seriously), a hotshot filmmaker who plays matchmaker to some corny-ass white writers in this shamelessly entertaining and just plain shameless Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas movie.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 28, 2023Danny Glover, Joan Cusack, Dermot Mulroney, Christmas, TV Movie, Film

The Notorious 1993 Flop Look Who's Talking Now! is Pure Yuletide Nightmare Fuel That Confusingly Has Nothing to Do with Babies

John Travolta’s flailing career hit another low with 1993’s Look Who’s Talking Now!, the ridiculously stupid concluding entry in the Look Who’s Talking trilogy, which traded in the talking baby gag for talking dogs and Christmas but kept the smut, innuendo and seedy desperation.

Stealing Crumbs from the Poor for Jesus: What "War on Christmas" Talk is Really All About

Those with much stealing crumbs from those who have very little in the name of Jesus: that’s ultimately what “War on Christmas” talk is really all about.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinNovember 19, 2023Christmas, War on Christmas, culture war, Judaism, hypocrisy

1994's Trapped in Paradise Represents the Nadir of Nicolas Cage's Normie 1990s Phase

Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey are a trio to forget in the rightfully reviled 1994 Christmas flop Trapped in Paradise.

The 2010 Flop The Nutcracker in 3-D Lives Up to Its Reputation as One of the Worst Movies Ever Made

It’s Christmas in January! 2010’s Hitlertastic The Nutcracker in 3-D has a reputation for being one of the worst and craziest movies ever made. That reputation is correct.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 2, 2023Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Christmas, ballet, Nazis

1988's Ernest Saves Christmas Turned Me Into a Believer

You know what movie is surprisingly weird, funny, dark and good? Freaking Ernest Saves Christmas.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 27, 2022Jim Varnet, Jim Varney, Christmas, Ernest P. Worrell

John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John's Christmas Album is Adorably Cheesy

A mere thirty-four years after Grease, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John re-teamed for a regrettable, morbidly fascinating Christmas album of pure Yuletide kitsch.