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Finally we have arrived at my favorite Christmas movie of all .… a grand old B&W from 1947 called The Bishop’s Wife starring the dashing Cary Grant, the exquisite Loretta Young and the suave David Niven. This is the plot:

A debonair angel named Dudley (Cary Grant) comes to earth to help Bishop Henry Brougham  (David Niven) and his wife (Loretta Young) in their quest to raise money to build a new cathedral. Henry is skeptical, then annoyed when Dudley ingratiates himself into the household as his assistant — and worse, wins the attention of Henry’s long-suffering and kindly wife. When Dudley continues to intervene in Henry’s struggles, the bishop decides to challenge heaven.

This movie pushes all the right buttons; it’s charming, inspiring, melancholy, exciting and funny (the ice skating scenes had me LOL!).

Here’s something I learned after watching the movie: Cary Grant was originally cast as the bishop and David Niven as the angel. One day while going over their lines, Grant and Niven (who were also great friends) thought they were better suited for each other’s roles. The actors voiced their opinion to the director who decided to switch the characters. I can’t imagine the movie turning out as good as it did if the two actors hadn’t switched roles.

Here’s the trailer:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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Every Christmas (and Easter), I like to get in at least one Bible movie. I have been enthralled by these movies since I was a child and they still hold a powerful message for me. The Nativity Story (2006) is a drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph’s life when they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

In Nazareth, teenager Mary is betrothed to the local carpenter, Joseph. Mary is visited by an angel and told that she will fulfill a prophecy and as a virgin give birth to God’s son. Mary’s pregnancy brings her the scorn of the community and Joseph struggles to believe her seemingly outlandish story. Meanwhile, a census forces every man and his family to return to his place of birth. Joseph and Mary set out on a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem …. and danger is with them the entire way.

Here’s the trailer:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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Full disclosure: I’ve never been a Will Ferrell movie fan but a friend kept badgering me to watch Elf so, to get him off my back, I agreed. I loved this movie from the start and now I’m hooked. It doesn’t hurt that Zooey Deschanel is so adorable and James Caan has a great gift for comedy. And casting Ed Asner as Santa was a stroke of brilliance. Watch this movie; you’ll love it! I am an Elf convert; it wouldn’t be Christmas in my house without watching this wonderful movie.

Arguably Will Ferrell’s best movie ever, Elf follows Buddy, a boy who’s raised as one of Santa’s elves after he’s accidentally sent to the North Pole. However, he doesn’t exactly fit in with the rest of the workers. Determined to find his real father, Buddy leaves the North Pole and ventures to NYC to search for him. But when Buddy finally reunites with his dad, chaos ensues. 

Here’s a teaser:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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This is a movie Bill and I hadn’t heard of before. It’s not the type we usually watch but we were with our two oldest grands (15 & 13) and it was their pick. It was very entertaining and Kurt Russell is always great fun.

Here’s the skinny: siblings Kate and Teddy Pierce hatch a scheme to capture Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. When the plan goes awry, the kids join forces with a somewhat jolly Saint Nick (Russell) and his loyal elves to save the holiday before it’s too late. Older kids will like this one.

Let’s watch the trailer:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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Last night we watched another B&W oldie .… The Shop Around the Corner from 1940. Here’s what the critics had to say. We agree.

Critics Consensus: Deftly directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a smart, funny script by Samson Raphaelson, The Shop Around the Corner is a romantic comedy in the finest sense of the term.

Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general store in Budapest. Klara and Alfred are constantly at odds with each other, butting heads and disagreeing on almost everything. Both are enamored of their respective pen pals, who serve as welcome distractions in their lives. Little do they know, they are each the other’s pen pal and, despite outward differences, have unwittingly fallen in love through their letters. Oh, in case you think Mr. Matuschek looks familiar, he’s Frank Morgan who played the wizard in The Wizard of Oz.

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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Bill and I watched this beautifully bittersweet movie last night. We knew nothing about this 2023 film except for the brief description below; we were sold after watching the trailer. Paul Giamatti is an excellent actor and his performance was impeccable. There were some award-winning insults and one-liners delivered with great aplomb. If you’re looking for a lighthearted romcom, this is not for you. We enjoyed this one a lot and highly recommend it.

The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them …. a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) …. and with the school’s head cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Let’s watch the trailer.

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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Today’s movie suggestion comes from our friend SueW; check out her site; it’s a delight. https://nansfarm.net/.

This is a new one for me. Here’s what IMDB had to say about The Holiday:

Amanda lives in LA and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey and is a journalist. The two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas – both trying to forget their troubled love lives .… until love finds them anyway.

Well, sounds like my kind of flick and it’s already on my watchlist. I know what we’ll be watching tonight!

Let’s check out the trailer:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥  🍿 🥤

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Bill and I have agreed (for research purposes) to watch more movies with a holiday theme. This is our first one and, boy, it’s an oldie but a goodie …. a true classic with one of my favorite actors …. Jack Lemmon. It’s not exactly a holiday movie, but most of the drama unfolds during the Christmas season, which earns it a spot on my list. The Apartment, which won five Oscars (including Best Picture), follows a lonely insurance worker named C.C. Baxter (Lemmon). To climb up the corporate ladder, he starts to lend his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses who are having romantic affairs. However, things get complicated when Baxter learns that his own manager is hooking up with the woman he has feelings for. They don’t make them like this anymore. Here’s the trailer:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥 🍿 🥤

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Here’s a flick we hadn’t seen in a while. We watched it again last night and remembered why we enjoy it so much. If you’re looking for something that’s very funny with just a touch of sentimentality, then this one is a good choice for you. It’s a no-brainer; sit back and be entertained by Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and Betty White in “The Proposal”.
This is the premise: When up tight New York editor Margaret faces deportation, she convinces her assistant Andrew to marry her in return for a promotion. However, when she visits his hometown, it changes her in many ways. Here’s a clip:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥 🍿 🥤

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Want To Watch A Movie?

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This is what we watched last night …. “Quartet” from 2012, a comedy with Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, and more, directed by Dustin Hoffman. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. You don’t need to be an opera lover to enjoy this one! Here’s a trailer for you:

I’ll save you a seat. Enjoy the movie! 🎥 🍿 🥤

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