It’s not often that we get any new animated holiday specials these days, but it looks like this year we’re actually getting TWO of them courtesy of NBC! The first one we mentioned is Screen Novelties’ Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas and now How Murray Saved Christmas, a one-hour animated “musical” based on the book by […]
Santa Claus
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Sorta. According to sources at Deadline, Sony Pictures has just walked away with the rights to a spec script called Winter’s Knight. Written by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton, Winter’s Knight is loosely based on L. Frank Baum’s 1902 book The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus, which first saw film adaptation in 1985 courtesy […]
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There are always the old standby Christmas themed episodes of our favorite cartoon that get hauled out and dusted off this time of year: He-Man & She-Ra, Charlie Brown, Pac-Man… Then you have your standard Rudolph, Frosty and their other friends who fill out the seasonal cartoon fare. But what if you’re like me and […]
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Adding to Scotty’s previous point in SBIG: Jingle All the Way about action movie stars and family friendly comedies, particularly holiday-themed comedies, I submit to you an equally desperate sub-class of Hollywood cash grabbing: wrestlers appearing in movies, particularly as violent heroes (or anti-heroes) with a heart of gold. While almost every superstar who’s banked […]
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There’s nothing quite like comics to capture the feelings of yuletide joy, bloody rage and twisted sarcasm that Christmas can often bring. Nowhere is this more evident than on a comic cover, where these entertaining mixed messages come freshly baked for mass consumption. In fact, looking back some of my favorite covers of all time […]
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I’ve never really been a very big fan of Star Trek. Sure, I grew up on The Next Generation and – for my money – Jean-Luc Picard is THE commanding officer of the USS Enterprise, but really it’s never been a big deal for me. Which makes the fact that I walked out of Barnes […]
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From the ashes of a subatomic winter wasteland, one hero remains. His name? Santa. His mission? Survive. The concept is pretty straightforward: it’s the year 8000 and Santa is a half-cyborg killing machine just trying to stay alive in a world full of hideous mutant freaks, giant robots and… the Easter Bunny. Alongside his robot […]
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Usually when Santa Claus rolls into town (yes, we still believe in Santa here at the clubhouse) it’s a good sign, signaling the arrival yuletide cheer and generous gifts we’ll probably get bored with or devour before January 1st – thus initiating the New Year cleanse. In the hands of Michael Neel and Greg Ansin, […]
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It might just be me, but the concept of Santa seems to be getting a little stale these days. Sure, he brings love and joy to children all over the world (he is a saint after all), but what happened to the days when being Santa meant saving the Earth from Martians, engaging Frankenstein’s monster […]