Monday, December 31, 2012

The Impossible

The Impossible is about a family doing all the right things. Mother doesn't allow the children to drink Coke Cola. The parents discuss their financial future. The boys for the most part get along.  The family even participates in the Yi Peng lantern festival in Thailand, where they are vacationing in Christmas, 2004. Life couldn't be more perfect. Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor are a couple with...

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Some Recommendations of Some (Less Seen) Christmas Movies

The Shop Around the Corner This is probably the best Christmas movie you've never seen (and by "you," I mean people younger than forty). Modern audiences would recognize the similarities between this movie and its remake, "You've Got Mail" (notice the name of Meg Ryan's shop in the latter), but this...