Ahhh, holidays. That time when cheer and good will abounds and overflows…. Right into your shopping cart because everyone seems to expect love to come in retail form, and overflows because guilt comes from every angle. If the holidays are giving you stress, or relatives are just a bit too much to deal with, find a quiet corner, grab your favorite munchies and beverage (adult or not), and relax with these holiday related movies guaranteed to give you a bit of a lift, if not put you in a twisted humor for the rest of the season…
Iron Man 3: RDJ and Gwenyth Paltrow working through isses. RDJ dancing to Christmas music and the giant bunny?!?!?!
Scrooged: I was overdosed with this as a kid so it was years before I could watch it again; now, I can take great joy in Carol Kane’s abusive enthusiam.
The Ref: If you think your family is broken, watch this. Keven Spacey and Dennis Leary are wonderful, but Christine Baranski steals the show. “The spirit of Christmas is either you’re good or you’re punished and you burn in hell. “
Batman Returns, with Christopher Walken and Michelle Pfeiffer… “I think I’ll save a life for next Christmas”
Die Hard: Usually ignored as a Christmas movie, but both Die Hard and Die Hard 2 started with one parent or the other crossing the country to get to the other for Christmas.
Gremlins: The Mogwai is a Christmas present, and terror decends… And always remember Phoebe Cates reason for hating Christmas.
Desk Set: The Christmas Eve scene where the reference desk is answering the names of the reindeer? And the blooming romance between Hepburn and Tracey?
Trading Places: Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy both at their best of comedic timing.
