Tired of hearing about Ralphie’s official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle? Want Tiny Tim to put a stocking in it? Wish George Bailey would take a flying leap? Well we here at Player Affinity have the cure for you, in the form of our favorite holiday movies that’ll keep you in the festive spirit without brow-beating you with sentimentality or raising your blood sugar with sickening sweetness.
If you relied on the movies for your history education, you might not even know about a little conflict called World War I. Think about it: When was the last time Hollywood tackled the original Great War. World War II, of course, is a prestige director’s bread and butter–the road to an Oscar, according to Kate Winslet on the show Extras. But WWI seems to be the one the movies forgot.
Or is it? Steven Spielberg, apparently tired of making awesome WWII movies, is releasing War Horse on Christmas day. The film is about a young man trying to reunite with his battle-tested horse. And though it might not have a ton of company in the WWI-movie category, the company it does have is quite esteemed. Here are five of our favorites:
The boy journalist Tintin is one of the most popular character creations from Belgium. Still, some of you might be wondering just who this Tintin character is and why you should care. With 82 years of history, we thought you should at least know before mindlessly indulging in The Adventures of Tintin this holiday season.
Ahh, wrath, rising darkness and giant killers, not exactly trailers conforming to the holiday spirit, are they? Thankfully, there is this little trailer for a rather no-name film called The Hobbit if you’re interested …
Hollywood has more or less left movies from outside its borders alone, but the overall quality of those they do snag is questionable. Director David Fincher hopes to add more quality to the list with his adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, so we’ll look seven of the most success “de-subtitlings” in recent memory.
It’s been five years since we last saw Tom Cruise’s physics-defying superhero secret agent Ethan Hunt on screen, and to celebrate the release of Mission: Impossibl — Ghost Protocol, we’re counting down the five coolest “Mission” moments.
Dueling
characters in films can serve any number of themes for filmmakers to
dwell on. With the release of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, I look back at some (personal)
favorite prizefights of rival characters whose mind games boil to
results that resonate.
The holiday season has become very fruitful very fast for this trailer hunter as after weeks of ho-hum debuts and second trailer rehashes, we’re got six high-profile peaks into films worthy of teeth-sinking.
Anyone can direct, but few have a gift to really impact the films they make. And despite only four feature films to his name, it can be said with a great degree of certainty that Jason Reitman is one of them.
Actresses such as Octavia Spencer (The Help) and Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus) seem like locks in Best Supporting Actress, but who else could sneak into the field this year?
