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Posted on December 18, 2022December 18, 2022

I Heard the Bells (2022)

The inspiring story of how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rose from tragedy to write the carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” during the dark days of the Civil War.

Posted on November 30, 2019November 30, 2019

Last Christmas (2019)

During Christmas time a selfish London woman with a transplanted heart falls in love with a mysterious man and is changed for the better.

Posted on November 22, 2018November 26, 2018

The Grinch (2018)

This 2nd adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss story offers more details of how the Grinch got help stealing the Whosville presents & then had a change of heart .

Posted on January 10, 2016January 19, 2016

Carol (2015)

Carol wants to live with store clerk Therese, but it is the 1950s, & both her husband, who threatens to take away their daughter, & society oppose it.

Posted on January 20, 2014December 22, 2022

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

When a small town banker thinks he has failed an angel shows that if he had not been born, the town would be worse off without him & his good deeds.

Posted on December 20, 2013December 20, 2013

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (2013)

At Christmas Madea finds herself in the middle of a struggle of a black mother and her daughter, the former disapproving her marriage to a white.

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

The Christmas Candle (2013)

A skeptical pastor in a rural church in Victorian England runs up against the village legend that every 25 years an angel blesses one candle so that the fortunate purchaser will be granted a miracle.

Posted on December 6, 2013December 6, 2014

Midnight Clear (2006)

On a lonely Christmas Eve a number of desperate people’s lives converge on a convenience store. They are very different, and yet all are in need of love and a renewed sense of purpose in life.

Posted on February 9, 2008March 10, 2021

Frozen River (2008)

  Courtney Hunt’s somberly  realistic film focuses upon the distraught lives of those whom our politicians claim that they want to help, those left out of the American Dream. In upstate New York by the Canadian border Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is left with two sons and unpaid bills when her husband runs off with …

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