Posts Tagged ‘holiday’

Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: Canada
Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson | Glenn Ford | Lawrence Dane | Sharon Acker | Frances Hyland | Tracey E. Bregman | Jack Blum | Matt Craven | Lenore Zann | David Eisner | Lisa Langlois | Michel-René Labelle | Richard Rebiere | Lesleh Donaldson | Earl Pennington
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
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Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on…

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Olivia Hussey | Keir Dullea | Margot Kidder | John Saxon | Marian Waldman | Andrea Martin | James Edmond | Doug McGrath | Art Hindle | Lynne Griffin | Michael Rapport | Leslie Carlson | Martha Gibson | John Rutter | Robert Warner
Directors: Bob Clark
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Attenborough | Elizabeth Perkins | Dylan McDermott | J.T. Walsh | James Remar | Jane Leeves | Simon Jones | William Windom | Mara Wilson | Robert Prosky | Kathrine Narducci | Mary McCormack | Alvin Greenman | Allison Janney | Greg Noonan
Directors: Les Mayfield
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A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood’s most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the “secret” about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn’t expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who’s convinced he’s the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all - something to believe in.

Christmas Carol, A (1999)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Patrick Stewart | Richard E. Grant | Joel Grey | Ian McNeice | Saskia Reeves | Desmond Barrit | Bernard Lloyd | Dominic West | Trevor Peacock | Liz Smith | Elizabeth Spriggs | Kenny Doughty | Laura Fraser | Celia Imrie | John Franklyn-Robbins
Directors: David Hugh Jones
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Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840’s London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

Scrooged (1988)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Karen Allen | John Forsythe | John Glover | Bob Goldthwait | David Johansen | Carol Kane | Robert Mitchum | Nicholas Phillips | Michael J. Pollard | Alfre Woodard | Mabel King | Joel Murray | Jamie Farr | Robert Goulet
Directors: Richard Donner
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

The Ref (1994)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

Shrek the Halls (2007)

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Cody Cameron | Susan Fitzer | Christopher Knights | Conrad Vernon | Aron Warner | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Miles Christopher Bakshi | Nina Zoe Bakshi | Dante James Hauser
Directors: Gary Trousdale
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This half-hour animated TV special features the Shrek characters putting their own spin on holiday traditions.

Fred Claus (2007)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Vince Vaughn | Paul Giamatti | John Michael Higgins | Miranda Richardson | Rachel Weisz | Kathy Bates | Trevor Peacock | Ludacris | Elizabeth Banks | Christian Hansen | Jeremy Swift | Elizabeth Berrington | Kevin Spacey | Rio Hackford | Liam James
Directors: David Dobkin
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Fred Claus, Santa’s bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: | Macaulay Culkin | Joe Pesci | Daniel Stern | Catherine O'Hara | John Heard | Devin Ratray | Hillary Wolf | Maureen Elisabeth Shay | Michael C. Maronna | Gerry Bamman | Terrie Snell | Jedidiah Cohen | Senta Moses | Daiana Campeanu | Kieran Culkin
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he’s in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won’t be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin’s ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!

Groundhog Day (1993)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Andie MacDowell | Chris Elliott | Stephen Tobolowsky | Brian Doyle-Murray | Marita Geraghty | Angela Paton | Rick Ducommun | Rick Overton | Robin Duke | Carol Bivins | Willie Garson | Ken Hudson Campbell | Les Podewell | Rod Sell
Directors: Harold Ramis
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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.