TFCA.com: Toronto’s (and Richard’s) Favourite Christmas Movies
Find out how “Black Christmas” almost cost Richard his relationship and how “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” saved Christmas!
Read the whole thing HERE!
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A Critical Christmas: The Holiday Films even Critics can’t say “humbug” to.
Richard Crouse: CTV Canada AM, Metro News and NewsTalk 1010
James Stewart stars in one of the movies that always puts me in the mood for Christmas, but its not the one you think. Sure, It’s A Wonderful Life is a classic and yuletastic, but I also enjoy The Shop Around The Corner. It’s a Christmassy romance that sees shop co-workers Stewart and Margaret Sullivan at one another’s throats at work, unaware that they are also anonymously courting one another as pen pals. All becomes clear on Christmas Eve and they unwrap a big ol’ gift basket of love. It’s almost as heartwarming as a giant mug of hot chocolate.
On the other end of the scale is Black Christmas. Many years ago, on the first Christmas the PMC — my Preferred Movie Companion — and I spent together, I screened the movie for her, which almost stopped the relationship before it had a chance to really get going. I love the slaying slasher story. Her, not so much. I quickly rebounded with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which made the yuletide bright once again. Thanks, Chevy Chase, for saving Christmas and my relationship!
Read entries from Peter Howell, Johanna Schneller, Linda Barnard, Eli Glasner and Brian D. Johnson HERE!
YULE LOVE IT! RICHARDCROUSE.CA’S CHRISTMAS GIFT LIST! DAY THREE!
“It’s a membership to the Jelly of the Month Club.”
Who can forget Clark Griswold’s most disappointing Christmas gift ever? Who can for get his reaction?
“Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?”
Now you can share the joy by gifting your own Jelly of the Month Club certificate! More info HERE!
