all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #10
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.
Holiday Inn
Friday night fortune cookie: Ted Hanover says…
“A gentle smile often breeds a kick in the pants.”
retro trailer: ‘Holiday Inn’
Of course, one of the holidays is New Year’s Eve…
question of the day: What’s your favorite Thanksgiving-themed movie?
Yesterday, the Online Film Critic Society — of which I am a member, and I serve on its Governing Committee — announced our favorite Thankgiving-themed movie (go here to learn which film we picked). Now it’s your turn: What’s your favorite Thanksgiving-themed movie? These are the movies we chose among: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Dutch … more…
White Christmas (review)
White Christmas is billed as a remake of Holiday Inn, but the only thing these two films have in common is Bing Crosby singing the most beautiful secular Christmas carol, Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ (which was originally written for Holiday Inn). White Christmas isn’t as delightful as its supposed predecessor, but if for no other reason, it’s worth seeing for a gorgeously simple arrangement of the title tune, which Crosby croons accompanied only by a windup music box.
Holiday Inn movie review: two guys and a girl
God, I love those snarky 40s comedies in which there’s just a bit of meanness under the humor. Holiday Inn is, of course, filled with the kind of pretty Christmas songs and picture-postcard scenes of snow and horse-drawn sleighs that make for beloved holiday movies. But there’s also some darkness lurking here.
