Don’t expect any holiday cheer from Black Mirror: White Christmas, a Christmas story from the dark British series about technology bringing out the worst human impulses. But if you are looking for a shot of cynicism to counter the seasonal spirit, this clever anthology of three stories with a science fiction twist should fit the […]
Category: Christmas
Santa, Rudolph, and Frosty: Beloved Christmas specials on Amazon Prime
For big kids of certain age, it wasn’t really Christmas until all those silly Christmas specials produced by Rankin& Bass, usually with stop motion animation that looked like toy rooms come to life but sometimes with more traditional hand-drawn animation, started showing up on prime time TV. Sure, A Charlie Brown Christmas and the original […]
Three Christmas Comedies on Netflix
For the romantics: Love Actually (2003) Richard Curtis, Britain’s one-man romantic comedy factory and screenwriter of such hits as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, made his directorial debut with this star-studded comedy about love… actually. The film skips through what seems like dozens of stories over the course of the Christmas holidays, […]
Your Moment of Christmas Zen: Streams of Fire!
Once upon a time it was a Christmas tradition for your local PBS or public access station to turn their channel into a virtual fireplace on Christmas Eve, showing nothing but a crackling fire, perhaps accompanied by Christmas chorales or instrument carols. The virtual fireplace was duly picked up by VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, and […]