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You Should Be Watching: About a Boy (2002)
Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, the home of lost or underappreciated TV and movies. In keeping with our theme of Christmas movies, this week we’ll be taking a look at 2002’s About a Boy. This is technically bending the rules a little; this film has Christmas in it, and, in fact, Christma...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
This Thanksgiving, Netflix released The Christmas Chronicles, a Christmas adventure starring Kurt Russell as Santa Claus. I love Christmas movies and Kurt Russell as an actor, so when I heard about this film, I was anxious to see it. Thanksgiving was a great day to release it, as for many people thi...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: Arthur Christmas (2011)
Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where unloved or forgotten movies and TV series get their moment in the spotlight. Starting this week and on through the next month and a half, we’ll be focusing solely on Christmas movies. To kick off the holiday movie season, I’ve chosen a relatively rec...
Read MoreREVIEW: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the sequel to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Grindelwald escapes custody and begins to raise an army to take over the Wizarding and Non-Wizarding worlds alike. Newt Scamander is charged with joining the fight against the evil wizard b...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Grinch (2018)
When I first started seeing ads for Illumination’s attempt at adapting Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, my first thought was, “Oh God, here we go again.” I think many people probably shared the same sentiment; you hear a lot of mixed opinions on the 2000 Jim Carrey version, but I t...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
When I heard that Disney was making a movie based on The Nutcracker, I was a little worried. I’m no expert on the original story, but I’ve seen the ballet in person, and I willingly admit that I might still occasionally watch Barbie in the Nutcracker at Christmastime. Disney is my favorite thing...
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