[Movie 316 / Day 335]
After the success of GREMLINS, it was decided that a sequel would make plenty of money and so in due course, one got the green light. Rumour has it that director Joe Dante said he’d only do it if he could do whatever he wanted.
What he wanted, apparently, was to [...]

[Movie 315 / Day 335]
The latest live action made-for-TV movie of the popular kids show, ALIEN SWARM is based on the Alien Force version of the cartoon where Ben and Gwen have grown into their teens and have teamed up with Kevin E. Levin (who, as my sketchy knowledge of the show tells me, was [...]

[Movie 314 / Day 334]
Back in the early 80s, Chris Columbus was a struggling writer not long out of film school. Listening to the mice scampering around his apartment at night was a creepy enough sound to inspire him to write a screenplay featuring creatures called gremlins who were sadistic troublemakers. He intended [...]

[Movie 313 / Day 333]
One of those gentle comedies that needs no thought, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT is about the mess food writer Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) manages to get herself into when her austere boss and publisher, Alexander Yardley, orders her to entertain a wounded sailor at her farm for a traditional Christmas meal – [...]

[Movie 312 / Day 333]
Christmas comedy with Will Ferrell in one of his most enjoyable movies to date. He plays Buddy, a human raised in the North Pole as an elf after he managed to stow away on board Santa’s sleigh one year during the big man’s trip to the orphanage.
After years of trying [...]

[Movie 311 / Day 333]
In this average live-action remake of the classic Disney cartoon, Jeff Daniels plays Roger, a struggling computer games designer who is unsuccessfully trying to market a game featuring his Dalmatian, Pongo. He bumps into fashion designer Anita (Joely Richardson) and her dog Purdy, and promptly fall in love. Before [...]

[Movie 310 / Day 330]
A much loved action movie in it’s own right, DIE HARD also qualifies as one of the best Christmas movies ever made, thanks to being set on Christmas Eve. As such, at this time of year, it’s almost the law that it should be watched, and as I’ve recently bought [...]

[Movie 309 / Day 330]
Almost a decade after Bob Clarke had shocked audiences with the holiday horror BLACK CHRISTMAS, he took a break from writing and directing dick and fart jokes in the PORKY’S franchise to create a wonderful little story about a boy, Ralphie, that wants nothing more in the world for Christmas than [...]