It’s that time of year again… where I run down the good, the bad and the very bad of the movies I watched over Christmas. This is something of an RvR tradition – you can see my Christmas 2009 list HERE and my Christmas 2010 list HERE. If you want to run through some really odd choices you can go for Ross McD’s 2009 list HERE. Somehow we both missed 2011′s movies. Must have eaten too much turkey. Anyway, here are the films I caught over the festive period in the last week or two. As always, some I watched in their entirety, some I watched large chunks of and some I caught just a tiny snippet. Come on, I had things to do. Like walk from the sofa to the kitchen and back to grab more chocolates. These movies are in the order I watched them, not rearranged by quality. Let us know what movies you watched over Christmas in the comments section and tell us what you think of my choices. Although in the case of Happy Feet, I didn’t have a choice… Read more »
Archive for Christmas
The 29 Movies Ross McG Watched Over Christmas
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Christmas, Movies on January 3, 2013 by Ross McGReview… Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Posted in REVIEWS with tags Christmas, Movie, Movies, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Review on December 13, 2011 by Ross McGChristmas. A time for giving. A time for receiving. A time for escaping from the evil clutches of Santa Claus. Read more »
Top 16… Movies Ross McD Watched Over Christmas
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Christmas, Harry Potter, It's a Wonderful Life, Movies, Nine, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sherlock Holmes, Wallace & Gromit on January 7, 2010 by Ross McD
Why do we only watch films we’ve already seen over Christmas? It is easily our most condensed film viewing schedule of the year, yet we hardly ever see anything new. Are TV schedulers to blame? Or are we just that bit more nostalgic over the holidays? Only three of the films I watched this yuletide were for the first time - two in the cinema and one on DVD. TV sucks! Read more »
Top 16… Movies Ross McG Watched Over Christmas
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Christmas, Disney, Harry Potter, Heath Ledger, Lindsay Lohan, Movies, Snow White on January 5, 2010 by Ross McG
Christmas is about a lot of things. Goodwill. Baby Jesus. Cliff Richard. But it’s also about watching movies. Here is my rundown of the films I caught over the festive period. Let us at RvR know what you watched in between turkey and more turkey… Read more »
The Muppet Christmas Carol v Gremlins
Posted in BATTLES with tags Christmas, Gremlins, Michael Caine, Movies, The Muppet Christmas Carol on December 22, 2009 by rossvross
It’s the battle of the Christmas creatures! In the green corner, wearing felt and updating a Yuletide classic, it’s Kermit and Co. In the other green corner, covered in slime and slaying Santa, it’s Stripe and his gang. Click HERE or the image above to read our latest piece for Metro Film Fight Club! Read more »
Great Christmas Scenes… Mean Girls
Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags Christmas, Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls, Movies, Rachel McAdams on December 21, 2009 by Justin Michaels
This is what Christmas is really all about: teenage girls dressed as Santa slapping their thighs while wearing PVC skirts and black knee-high boots. It’s a shame this true meaning often gets forgotten amid all the commercialism. Read more »
Great Christmas Scenes… Elf
Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags Christmas, Elf, Movies, Will Ferrell on December 17, 2009 by Justin Michaels
Everyone gets excited about meeting Santa. But not as much as Will Ferrell does. Smiling is his favourite, after all. Read more »





The Movies Ross McG Watched Over Christmas
Posted in COMMENT with tags Christmas, Movies on January 3, 2011 by Ross McG14 Comments »