On the fourth day of Christmas: How Rankin and Bass invented television...
An interesting little book came out about five years ago called The Man Who Invented Christmas, about how Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol played a crucial role in formulating our modern conception...
View ArticleOn the fifth day of Christmas: Five Creepy Christmas Movies
Here in the United States, the final three months of the year are always filled with holiday cheer, and each festive event comes with its own set of movie-viewing opportunities. The season begins with...
View ArticleOn the sixth day of Christmas: Joe Dante’s “Gremlins”, the greatest Christmas...
It is natural to associate certain holidays with a specific set of zesty colours and particular attitudes. Here in the United States, our pop culture offers many quick and easy examples of this....
View ArticleOn the seventh, eighth & ninth days of Christmas: Five Criterion films I’d...
So how does one go about choosing just a handful of films from Criterion’s 800+ film collection? I haven’t picked what I’d call the best films in the collection because I fear that I would be stuck...
View ArticleThe final days of Christmas: The sentimental and the savage
As Christmas arrives, you might have noticed that we never quite made it to writing a related article for each of the twelve days of Christmas (although I think that eight pieces is impressive enough)....
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