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The year’s gone with the wind
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pveugelaers
Gone with the Wind is a traditional holiday movie around Christmas and New Year’s. It has that epic scope that makes it a worthy holiday film. Perhaps a soap opera, this film has people and the days of their lives at its core. It’s told on a huge canvass and is set in the South…
As good as it gets this Christmas
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pveugelaers
Christmas is not a bed of roses. “Merry Christmas” is not merry for some. The infectious, good natured comedy As Good as It Gets (1997) is apt viewing because Merry Christmas is a ‘broken hallelujah’. Though not a real Christmas movie, it even contains some profanity so is hardly Christ-mas strictly speaking, it’s got that…
Christmas with “ It’s A Wonderful Life ”
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pveugelaers
It’s A Wonderful Life is 70 years old this December 20. It’s a wonderful life. Radical statement? Or true? My feeling is that some people today have been used to a wonderful life, but then come the spanners in the works, such as disasters, terrorism and terrible weather. The wonderful life has gone to the…
We need our pets and they need us
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pveugelaers
Max is a small pet dog attached to his owner, in The Secret Life of Pets (2016). He is upset when his owner, a young woman living in a New York apartment, leaves for work every day and he is left alone. Max needs her. Max wouldn’t call their ‘relationship’ soul mates, but there is a…
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