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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Written & Directed by John Hughes Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Baker, Edie McClurg, Diana Douglas, Martin Ferrero, Larry Hankin. It’s a couple of days out of Thanksgiving, and Neal Page (Martin) a tightly wound New York working executive, is trying to get back home to Chicago. When a…
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Violent Night
Dir Tommy Wirkola Written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, Beverly D’Angelo, Alexis Louder, Leah Brady. On Christmas Eve, the family of uber rich Gertrude Lightstone (D’Angelo) head to her mansion for the yearly Christmas gathering. However tonight, a group of mercenaries led by one with the codename ‘Scrooge’ (Leguizamo),…
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Fatman (2020)
Written and Directed by Ian and Eshom Nelms Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield, Eric Woolfe, Deborah Grover. In a fictionalised version of our world, Santa/Chris Cringle (Gibson) is known to exist and works with the United States government to give out presents to all the good children, and coal to all the…
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Home Alone (1990)
Dir Chris Columbus Written by John Hughes Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Kieran Culkin, John Candy. At Christmas, the McCallister family are preparing for an overseas holiday to Paris. The night before Kevin (Culkin) and his family get into a fight, and he is sent to the attic…
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The Santa Clause (1994)
Dir John Pasquin Written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Wendy Crewson, Judge Reinhold, David Krumholtz, Peter Boyle, Judith Scott. Toy company executive Scott Calvin (Allen) has his son Charlie (Lloyd) overnight on Christmas Eve, and is desperately trying to keep the belief of Santa Claus alive in him. his mother Laura…
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Die Hard 2
Directed by Renny HarlinWritten by Steven E de Souza, Doug RichardsonBased on the novel 58 minutes by Walter Wager (characters by Roderick Thorp) Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedilia, William Atherton, William Sadler, Franco Nero, Reginald VelJohnson, John Amos, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, Fred Dalton Thompson, Tom Bower. In this sequel to the 1987 smash hit, sees…
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
Director Renny HarlinWritten by Shane Black Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson, Craig Bierko, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, Tom Amandes, Yvonne Zima, David Morse, Melina Kanakaredes, GD Spradlin, Rex Linn, Joseph McKenna. Eight years ago Charlene Baltimore (Davis) was one of the best assassins within the secret US Government group ‘Chapter’. When her potential target, tried…
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Lethal Weapon (1987)
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Shane Black Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, Traci Woolfe, Jackie Swanson, Mary Ellen Trainor, Steve Kahan, Grand L Bush, Al Leong. In this 1980’s action yarn, also set at Christmas (but a Christmas movie?), introduces two newly partnered cops. There is traditional family…
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Die Hard (1988)
Director John McTiernanWritten by Jeb Stuart, Steven E deSouzaNovel by Roderick Thorp Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleeson, De’voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Clarence Gilyard Jr, Al Leong, Robert Davi, Grand L Bush. Its Christmas Eve and New York police detective John McClane (Willis) heads to…
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In Bruges
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésey, Jordan Prentice, Thekla Reuten, Željko Ivanek. In McDonagh’s first feature film, we are introduced to Ray and Ken (Farrell and Gleeson), two Irish hit-men being ordered to hide out in the town of Bruges, at Christmas, (it’s in Belgium) by their…
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Reindeer Games (2000)
Director: John FrankenheimerWritten by Ehren Kruger Ben Affleck, Gary Sinese, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farino, James Frain, Isaac Hayes, Donal Logue, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams II. Rudy (Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (Frain) are in the last few days of his jail stint. Rudy is heading home to his parents; Nick is heading to his beautiful pen…
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