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A funny shave (1905)
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塞冈多·德·乔蒙
other title: 啊！胡子！ / Ah! La barbe! …
A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.
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Mary Jane's Mishap (1903)
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★ 8.2 20 ratings
乔治·阿尔培特·史密斯 actor: 劳拉·贝利
other title: 玛丽的灾难 / 玛丽·珍妮的灾难 …
Laura Bayley, the most prolific British actress of the period and the wife of director G.A. Smith, shows her flare for clowning in this uproarious black comedy. Mary Jane learns that lighting your hearth with a tank full of paraffin may not be the safest of household chores, in a stern tale that could have come from the pages of 'Struwwelpeter'. As in much of Smith's work, the film delights in its trick effects, including an explosion and the apparition of a ghost. (Alex Davidson)
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The Cabbage Fairy (1896)
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★ 8.4 14 ratings
爱丽丝·盖伊 actor: 爱丽丝·盖伊 / Germaine· Serand …
other title: 甘蓝仙子 / La fée aux choux …
A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake.
Watched
Jan. 2, 2025
My wife and I in near unison: "This is early Anne Geddes!"
Fun use of baby dolls as human baby stand-ins.
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A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
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★ 5.8 17 ratings
乔恩·卢卡斯 / 斯科特·摩尔 actor: 米拉·库尼斯 / 克里斯汀·贝尔 …
other title: 坏妈妈的圣诞节 / 坏妈妈2 …
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
Watched
Dec. 27, 2024
At the one hour mark, I was amazed and confounded that there could be 45 minutes left.
The funniest parts of the movie are in the last 6 minutes.
More like *A Bad Movie... Christ, man*.
(not my best)
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The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
The Muppet Christmas Carol
★ 8.5 17 ratings
布赖恩·汉森 actor: 迈克尔·凯恩 / Kermit the Frog …
other title: 머펫의 크리스마스 캐롤 / マペットのクリスマス・キャロル …
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Watched
Dec. 24, 2024
Michael Caine was great and this was a lovely retelling of a classic.
Those Muppets sure are a real hoot!
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Paris Christmas Waltz (2023)
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Michael Damian actor: 珍·莉莉 / 马修·莫里森 …
other title: 파리에서 크리스마스 왈츠를 / A Paris Christmas Waltz …
Emma relinquishes her job so a colleague with a family will keep his. Contemplating life’s next steps, Emma meets a professional dancer, Leo whose love for competitive dancing is waning, until a once in a lifetime opportunity arises for the novice to join the pro and sweep all of Paris off its feet.
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Our Little Secret (2024)
Our Little Secret
★ 4.6 10 ratings
Stephen Herek actor: 琳赛·洛翰 / Ian Harding …
other title: 我们的小秘密 / 我瞒的圣诞 …
After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof — while hiding their romantic history.
Watched
Dec. 20, 2024
As far as this style of Netflix holiday rom-com is concerned, this one is all right!
Also, it was great to see Henry Czerny.
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Hanukkah on the Rocks (2024)
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Séan Geraughty actor: Stacey Farber / Daren Kagasoff …
A week before Hanukkah, recently unemployed lawyer Tory embarks on a journey to find Hanukkah candles, leading her to a Chicago bar where she transforms the holiday spirit, discovers love, and finds the courage to pursue a new path in life.
Watched
Dec. 20, 2024
As far as this style of Hallmark holiday rom-com is concerned, this one is quite good!
Also, it was great to see Marc Summers.
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Nutcrackers (2024)
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★ 4.3 6 ratings
大卫·戈登·格林 actor: 本·斯蒂勒 / 琳达·卡德里尼 …
other title: 넛크래커즈 / くるみ割り人形と4人のキッズ …
Just as Mike is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home.
Watched
Dec. 8, 2024
Some fun exchanges between Stiller and the brothers, but ultimately just kinda blah.
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Silent Night (2021)
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★ 5.0 16 ratings
卡米尔·格里芬 actor: 凯拉·奈特莉 / 马修·古迪 …
other title: Joyeuse fin du monde / 最后一个平安夜(台) …
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
Watched
Dec. 7, 2024
The twisted producing of Matthew Vaughn presents: *I'll Do My Own Research*.
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Hot Frosty (2024)
Hot Frosty
★ 5.6 5 ratings
Jerry Ciccoritti actor: 莱西·沙伯特 / 达斯汀·米利甘 …
other title: 핫 스노우맨 / スノーマンに恋して …
When a young widow's magic scarf brings a dashing snowman to life, can he help her rediscover romance, laughter and holiday cheer before he melts away?
Watched
Nov. 23, 2024
Some weird shit happens.
"It's Christmas.", is stated with the utmost sincerity by one of the small-town citizens as a way to just explain it all away.
Everyone is onboard with that as an acceptable answer and continues to just keep on living.
(I slept through a third of it and don't think I missed anything of import.)
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Babes (2024)
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★ 5.4 5 ratings
Pamela Adlon actor: Ilana Glazer / Michelle Buteau …
other title: 寶貝們 / 孕期指南 …
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Watched
Nov. 17, 2024
Like an *I Love You, Man* and/or *Bridesmaids* but about pregnancy, and in the form of a long episode of *Broad City,* but about 15 minutes too long and, y'know, not all that funny.
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Anora (2024)
Anora
★ 6.4 461 ratings
肖恩·贝克 actor: 米奇·麦迪森 / 尤拉·鲍里索夫 …
other title: 阿诺拉 / 아노라 …
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Watched
Nov. 15, 2024
Happy to report, and pleasantly surprised, that I liked this as much as I did. The trailer did me dirty and got me thinking I was just going to be watching a couple of kids be rambunctious for 2+ hours, but luckily that was only maybe a little bit of it.
Fun cross-cultural slapstick with a side of heartache.
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Mr. Crocket (2024)
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布兰登·埃斯皮 actor: 杰瑞卡·辛顿 / 亚历克斯·阿洛马尔·阿克波博姆 …
other title: 克罗克特先生 / 미스터 크로켓 …
A single mother thinks she's found the key to calming her child down – a VHS copy of a strange children's program named Mr. Crocket's World. However, a darker, bloodier secret waits to invade their home from inside the tape.
Watched
Oct. 27, 2024
Many of these straight-to-Hulu seasonal movies are questionable to begin with, but that a few diamonds in the rough can be found is part of the appeal in watching them.
But this has got to be one of the worst, yeah?
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Rodney & Sheryl (2023)
Woman of the Hour
★ 6.9 24 ratings
Anna Kendrick actor: Anna Kendrick / Daniel Zovatto …
other title: Woman of the Hour / The Dating Game …
An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."
Watched
Oct. 28, 2024
Pretty good. Decently tense at times.
I question why the one girl never just used one of any number of office phones available to her, but who am I to question such things?
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