Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (Paperback)

Don't waste another second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. Film critic Alonso Duralde highlights the best ä and worst ä movies of the Yuletide season with this fun and informative film guide. Whether you're looking for the classics family favorites holiday horror Christmas-themed crime epics or the most wonderfully awful cinematic lumps of coal ÊHave Yourself a Movie Little ChristmasÊ will point you and your rental queue in the right direction. Whether your idea of a holiday classic is ÊWhite ChristmasÊ ÊBad SantaÊ ÊDie HardÊ ÊEyes Wide ShutÊ or ÊGremlinsÊ you'll find the right film for you as well as an exhaustively entertaining breakdown of the various screen Scrooges from Alistair Sim to Jim Carrey to...Tori Spelling? And get ready to encounter movies you may never have heard of from the gritty noir ÊChristmas HolidayÊ starring 1930s singing ing©nue Deanna Durbin in her first hard-bitten adult role to the loony ÊSanta ClausÊ a Mexican kiddie movie in which St. Nick teams up with Merlin to fight the devil! Plot synopses video availability and fun facts ä did you know the actor cast as Uncle Billy in ÊIt's a Wonderful LifeÊ was also in the running to play mean old Mr. Potter? ä make this a stocking stuffed with information you'll turn to every Christmas season.