Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually has much to recommend it, despite a couple of storylines of questionable taste. The film is book-ended by scenes of arrivals and departures at London’s Heathrow Airport, as we hear a narrator state …
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …