Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The gang is back, and once again, the youngest of the McCallister family, Kevin (Culkin, Uncle Buck), is separated when his family goes on vacation in Miami (how does one lose the only member of...
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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
As someone who has read (well, “audio-booked”) the first three entries into the Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, I could easily start this review by complaining about the...
Home Alone (1990)
Perhaps the biggest surprise about Home Alone is not that it is liked by many people, especially as a movie to watch around Christmas — it’s that it would become a mega-blockbuster, shooting straight up...
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
As a kid, I remember watching such holiday classics as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, which I suppose weren’t perfect movies, but they were perfect for the season and the age I was when...
Orange County (2002)
Orange County stars Colin Hanks, son of Tom, as Shaun Brumder, an Orange County teen who always had excelled in his classes despite his lifestyle of surfing and parties. When he is told he...
Home Fries (1998)
Starting off with a particularly awful scene of two brothers chasing down their philandering stepfather with a military helicopter until he dies of a heart attack, this comedy starts off bad and gets progressively...
Beetlejuice (1988)
The idea for Beetlejuice developed when Michael McDowell, a horror novelist and occasional television writer for “Tales from the Darkside”, sold the rights to some of his Southern Gothic novels to a former studio...