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New Year’s Movies To Watch Out For!
When the holidays are over, and affordable, indoor entertainment is called for, watch out for these winter warmer movies, coming your way next month.
If horror is your thing, in the first week of January, The Devil Inside, in theaters from January 6, tells the tales of a woman inItaly who becomes involved in a string of unauthorized exorcisms, as she attempts to find out what happened to her mom, alleged to have killed three people during her own exorcism.
More of a drama fan? The Roadie, which has a limited release on the same day, is the story of musician Jimmy Testagros, who returns to his hometown after two decades on the road with Blue Oyster Cult to care for his sick mother. Things get complicated when he falls in love with an old friend, now married to his long-time nemesis.
There’s another thriller in store with Beneath the Darkness, starring Dennis Quaid, in which a group of teenagers works to expose a local man as the vicious killer of their best friend, and avoid becoming his next victims.
Action drama Contraband, starring Kate Beckinsale and Mark Wahlberg, opens the following week. It takes a look at the underground, cutthroat world of global smuggling, and is a story of desperate criminals, corrupt officials, big payoffs and high stakes.
For something a little lighter, Joyful Noise also has a January 13 release, and is a musical comedy starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as two choir members with different views on how to grab the top prize in a nationwide choir competition.
With Beauty and the Beast, a 3-D re-release of the Disney classic, and Meryl Streep’s much hyped The Iron Lady also to look forward to, January looks set to be a great month for movie lovers!
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Christmas Movies To Watch Every Year
Ring in the holiday with these all-time favorites.
1. A Christmas Story (1983) All Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants for Christmas is an “official Red Rider, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle,” to which everyone in his Indiana hometown exclaims, “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Ralphie undergoes many humorously traumatic events such as encountering a not-to-jolly Santa Clause, having to wear a homemade bunny suit, getting his tongue stuck to the flagpole outside of school, and being tormented by the school bullies.
2. Love Actually (2005) “Love actually is all around” in this British romantic comedy about the intersecting lives of its protagonists. Harry (Alan Rickman) is tempted by his secretary even though he’s happily married with children. Mark (Andrew Lincoln) struggles with his feelings for his best friend’s new bride (Keira Knightly). Prime Minister David (Hugh Grant) finds himself drawn to his sweet and insecure junior member each time she brings him tea and cookies. And in its biggest story arc, prepubescent Sam (Thomas Sangster) develops his first major crush and enlists his stepdad Daniel (Liam Neeson) to help him win her over.
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) In this timeless animation, Charlie Brown is dismayed by the commercialization of Christmas that he sees all around him. Even Snoopy has given in by entering a holiday lights decorating contest. Charlie rouses his friends by organizing a play based on the nativity scene, but his friends are reluctant to keep it simple and sweet. When Charlie finds a tiny tree to add to the play, his friends first scorn him but then help him decorate it, realizing that Christmas is about more than just commercial interests.
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Movies With New Years Scenes
In anticipation of the new movie New Year’s Eve coming to theaters on December 9th, here are three films with memorable New Years Eve scenes that make viewers feel warm and fuzzy.
1. Alfie (2004) Perpetual player and bachelor Alfie (Jude Law) meets Nikki (Sienna Miller) while on duty as a chauffeur in New York City during the holidays. Alfie feels he has finally met someone he can see himself spending the rest of his life with, and this feeling culminates at a swanky and hip New Year’s Eve party where the two enjoy being young, beautiful and restless together.
2. When Harry Met Sally (1989) Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) have a love-hate friendship over a matter of years following their college graduation. They see each other through breakups, heartache and dissatisfaction, and ultimately develop feelings for each other. When a one night stand changes everything, they try to go on without each other, until New Year’s Eve where Sally leaves a party early and Harry sprints through town in order to tell her how he feels about her before the ball drops.
3. Sex and the City (2008) Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) continue their tumultuous relationship in this blockbuster movie. When Carrie and Mr. Big seem to end things for good, and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) separates from her husband after his infidelity, both women find themselves alone on New Year’s Eve. Despite both of their initial desires to spend the holiday alone in their respective residences, Carrie runs to Miranda and the two count down the minutes together.
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All-Time Top Christmas Movies
It’ll soon be that time of year again, when it’s freezing outside, and many of us love nothing better than snuggling up in front of a classic Christmas moviepreferably one we’ve already seen a hundred times before! And it doesn’t matter how corny or schmaltzy they would seem at any other time of year. We still love ‘em! Here are a few of our favorites, but which are yours?
Released more than 20 years ago, Home Alone provides festive comedy gold, with Macaulay Culkin outwitting the world’s most incompetent burglars. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, released a decade later, also provided another instant classic. Who could forget Jim Carey’s performance in the leading role?
Joyeux Noel is an Oscar-nominated drama focusing on life in Scottish, French and German trenches during the First World War. Poignant and heartfelt, this movie is too often overlooked.
Will Ferrell stars alongside Zooey Deschanel and James Caan in Elf as an overgrown elf whose realization that he was born human sparks an identity crisis. This warm movie is as touching as it is heartfelt.
Love Actually has a cast list reading like a ‘who’s who’ of British cinema, Richard Curtis’s quintessentially English rom-com has captured hearts worldwide with its interlinked love stories, set in a snowy Christmastime London.
The Santa Clause is a family comedy and one of the strangest seasonal movies of the 1990s, starring Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, a regular guy who accidentally kills Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
It’s a Wonderful Life is another iconic movie which must feature high in everyone’s all-time seasonal favorites list. James Stewart is about to jump to his death when a guardian angel shows him how much he has to live for. This feel-good film is a solid gold holiday classic.
Finally, The Muppet Christmas Carol is an adaptation of one of our greatest stories, performed almost entirely by a collection of felt puppets! With Michael Caine providing a rare human presence as Scrooge, this flick is an endlessly endearing film rightly held in great affection.
There are many more holiday movies, and it’s almost time to start enjoying them all over again!
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