Dec 09 2025
Every December, Charlie Brown begins Christmas feeling exactly the way people are not supposed to feel during the holidays. He is unhappy. The decorations are everywhere, his friends are excited, Christmas cards are arriving, and everyone seems to understand how to participate in the season except him. Instead of sharing their enthusiasm, Charlie Brown looks …
Dec 08 2025
Few movies look more like Christmas than White Christmas. There are snowy Vermont landscapes, enormous decorated trees, fireplaces, elegant costumes, military reunions, romantic misunderstandings, and enough Irving Berlin songs to carry viewers through an entire December evening. Released by Paramount Pictures in 1954, White Christmas brought together Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen …
Nov 22 2025
Once the Thanksgiving meal is finished, the leftovers are packed away, and everyone has reached the point where moving from the couch feels unnecessarily ambitious, a family movie can be exactly what the afternoon needs. The challenge is finding Thanksgiving movies that actually work for children. There are plenty of famous Thanksgiving films for adults, …
Nov 22 2025
Christmas may dominate the holiday-movie calendar, but Thanksgiving has produced its own wonderfully strange collection of films. Thanksgiving movies tend to be less interested in magic, decorations, and perfect endings than Christmas movies are. Instead, they focus on getting home, surviving family reunions, cooking a meal that refuses to cooperate, revisiting old resentments, welcoming unexpected …
Nov 20 2025
Born on November 20, 1908, Alistair Cooke spent much of the twentieth century doing something deceptively difficult: explaining one country to another. To millions of British radio listeners, Cooke was the measured, conversational voice behind Letter from America, the weekly broadcast in which he explored American politics, culture, language, sports, personalities, customs, tragedies, arguments, and …
Oct 30 2025
You do not need buckets of blood to make a horror movie terrifying. Some of the scariest films ever made rely on footsteps in an empty hallway, something moving just beyond the edge of the frame, an unexplained voice in the night, or the uncomfortable feeling that a character is not quite as alone as …
Oct 29 2025
Finding a Halloween movie for tweens can be surprisingly tricky. They may have outgrown the gentlest pumpkin-and-friendly-ghost movies, but that does not necessarily mean they are ready for slashers, graphic horror, or the nightmare fuel waiting in the adult section. Fortunately, the space between those extremes is packed with great movies. The best Halloween movies …
Oct 28 2025
Some movies simply belong to October. They may not all take place on Halloween, but something about their vampires, witches, ghosts, monsters, haunted houses, shadowy forests, or relentless suspense makes them perfect companions for dark autumn evenings. Some helped create the visual language of horror cinema itself. Others became cult favorites decades after their release. …
Oct 26 2025
Ghost stories have been part of cinema almost from the beginning. Haunted houses, restless spirits, mysterious apparitions, cursed places, and unfinished business translate beautifully to the screen because the most effective ghost movies rarely need to show us everything. A door opening by itself or a figure standing silently in the distance can be more …
Oct 24 2025
October movie nights call for witches, ghosts, haunted houses, monsters, mysterious curses, and at least a little magic. Disney has been providing all of those things for generations, from the Headless Horseman galloping through Sleepy Hollow to the Sanderson sisters running amok in Salem. Some Disney Halloween movies are genuinely eerie. Others are funny, nostalgic, …
