Charles Schulz’s beloved Peanuts has inspired no less than 50 different television specials; but of course, the best and most beloved is the one that started it all: A Charlie Brown Christmas. Last week in Webb, I named that as my single favorite holiday movie; so now let’s expand a bit with background and trivia
Following up on last year’s list, your Webb movie-critic herewith offers another batch of under-the-radar holiday movies for seasonal screening: Comfort and Joy (1984) – How’s this for an unlikely premise: A popular Glasgow disc jockey, devastated by a recent break-up, somehow becomes the go-between in a turf war between two firms of competing ice-cream
Charles Dickens’s holiday classic A Christmas Carol is now 181 years old. In addition to furious sales during the author’s lifetime, Dickens’s “ghostly little book” has spawned thousands of stage performances, along with countless radio and audio renditions (Audible alone offers more than 100 different readings). And as for the screen: Fred Guida’s A Christmas
Ridley Scott doesn’t make bad movies. In fact, many of his titles that are not merely good but genuinely great: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, The Martian — even lesser-known gems like The Duellists (1977) and Matchstick Men, from 2003. With Gladiator II, the veteran director adds another masterpiece to his resume. It’s a bit more
The beloved Anne of Green Gables would have turned 150 last week. … In a sense. Nov. 30, 2024, marked the sesquicentennial of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s birth; she’s the prolific Canadian writer who gave us young Anne — and then followed her to adulthood in so many charming books. But for all the joy her
