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The Best and Worst Christmas Movie Presents

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Christmas is a time for giving. Some presents are great, some are terrible, and we’ve seen plenty of both in Christmas movies… It’s the season of goodwill and sharing festive cheer (and beer) with friends and family. Big Red dumps his goods down the chimney and kids across the land open their presents in baited […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bad Santa, Die Hard, home alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, Santa Claus: The Movie

The Ultimate Christmas Movie Douchebags

December 25, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tis the season to be jolly but it’s also the season to be a douchebag, if some of these iconic Christmas movie douches are anything to go by… We’ve all known a steaming douchebag in our time. It could be someone with an ego that melds perfectly with a shit-eating grin, or someone who takes […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Chandler Dean, David Gillen, Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Don Ameche, Gary Bamman, Hart Brochner, home alone, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, John Glover, Lionel Barrymore, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Phil Hartman, Ralph Bellamy, Scrooged, Trading Places, William Atherton, Zack Ward

The Good and the Bad: Nostalgia-Driven Cinema

December 12, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on nostalgia-driven films… Balance is a wonderful thing. In a recipe, each ingredient plays a part. Sugar is good right? The contentious ingredient has taken the blame for so many modern health issues over the years. Let’s face it, there’s almost no nutritional value, but it’s pleasing. You need sugar to make doughnuts. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, Edgar Wright, Ghostbusters, ghostbusters: afterlife, Hot Fuzz, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Force Awakens

Neil Patrick Harris has NES nostalgia in trailer for festive comedy 8-Bit Christmas

November 6, 2021 by Amie Cranswick

Warner Bros. has released a poster and trailer for 8-Bit Christmas, the upcoming festive comedy from director Michael Dowse, which follows 10 year old Jake on his quest to get his hands on a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas in late 1980s Chicago; check them out here… Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, David Cross, June Diane Raphael, Neil Patrick Harris, Steve Zahn, Winslow Fegley

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