Holiday season music, books, movies, thoughts, experiences, news, etc., from your Ho Ho Ho pals at Blogcritics. Happiest Holidays to you!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation DVD Review
They've been to Wally World. They've been to Europe. This season, things are a bit different. It's time once again to visit the Griswold family, this time for a little holiday cheer like only they can provide. "Christmas Vacation" is...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 26, 2004 10:46 PM

It's a Wonderful Life DVD Review
Each year, the holidays become more of a burden for everyone. Running around for gifts that are out of stock, making the trip(s) to see family, and watching the checkbook all add up to a time of the year that...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 26, 2004 09:33 PM

The Many Choices of George Bailey
After reading Dan Green's post on It's a Wonderful Life, I had to respond (especially because I watched parts of it again on TV last night). I too initially recoiled at the sentimentality and emotional manipulation of the ending the...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 26, 2004 02:22 PM

Books for Christmas Gifts, Yay!
My family usually gives me books for Christmas. Intelligent, thoughtful people, they find things that have escaped my notice.
Posted in Blogcritics on December 25, 2004 02:44 PM

Merry Christmas!
Or "Season's Greetings" for the PC crowd...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 25, 2004 12:08 AM

Where's Santa?
NORAD confirms: Santa is on his way.
Posted in Blogcritics on December 24, 2004 08:09 PM

The Friday Morning Listen
Merry Christmas Everybody!
Posted in Blogcritics on December 24, 2004 09:22 AM

MAXJAZZ Holiday
MAXJAZZ is a little label out of St. Louis with an extraordinary roster of traditional jazz vocalists like Carla Cook, Rene Marie, LaVerne Butler, and Mary Stallings, who all emphasize taste, precision, swing and melody over showmanship and histrionics, lending...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 23, 2004 10:21 PM

Heart: A Lovemonger's Christmas
Once the female equivalent to Led Zeppelin, Heart is back in 2004 spreading some yuletide fun on A Lovemonger's Christmas, the band's second release this year, after June's Jupiter's Darling. Both albums mark quite a comeback for Heart, being their...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 23, 2004 03:19 PM

The Hebrew Hammer
The clever premise is stretched way too thin and the film is padded more than a skinny mall Santa's suit.
Posted in Blogcritics on December 23, 2004 02:14 PM

Christmas Movies
Well, the day is nearly here. It's almost time for TNT to start their 24 hours of A Christmas Story. It's almost time to see a holiday parade. It's almost time tear into some gifts from your loved ones. It's...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 23, 2004 07:25 AM

Martha Stewart: (Not) Home For the Holidays
Martha Stewart is about halfway through her federal five-month sentence for, I forget what exactly, but something to do with bad stock juju and lying about something she was never charged with in the first place. Regardless, she wanders the...
Posted in Blogcritics on December 22, 2004 05:31 PM