2025's 25 Movies of Christmas
I’m doing my (formerly) Catholic (presently) Filipino duty and getting in to the Christmas spirit, so I am logging all the movies I watch and a short blurb on what I thought.
December 1st: The Holiday | 2006
Crying, screaming, throwing up. This gay girl was too emotionally invested in Jude Law’s insanely good acting experience. As a Cameron Diaz hater and disbeliever in the Jack Black connection with Kate Winslet, this still thoroughly won me over. It will be a holiday staple moving forward.December 2nd: Love Hard | 2021
New watch. I have liked a bit of Jimmy Yang’s standup, so I was cautiously optimistic about this one, and it turned out just fine. I will say it had a perfectly cheesy ending.December 3rd: Single All the Way | 2021
I have watched this one before and it’s a cute smooth ride the whole way through. It has some crazy talent for some reason, and my highlights are the two daughters conspiring for their Uncle and Jennifer Robertson’s commitment to the bit.December 4th: Falling for Christmas | 2022
This one didn’t hit the mark. As much as I love Lindsey Lohan - baddie redhead to baddie redhead - every time they built up the right tension, they didn’t stick the landing. The ending was actually okay, but I didn’t feel chemistry between the leads.
December 5th Home Alone | 1990
A Christmas classic. The only note I have is that the beginning gets harder and harder to watch each year. They really are awful to Kevin. Big yikes.
Excellent, excellent!! Great acting and fun characters. It toes the line between pick-me, but makes up or it by flipping that on its head by the end of the movie. It all came together. I don’t know if this counts as a Christmas movie, but I could stand to watch it again.
December 6th Happiest Season | 2020
I hate this movie. The ending was the only way to reconcile it, and they chose not to. I will not be watching this movie going forward. The only redeeming quality being the side-characters. Also, someone please give redemption to Jane, she’s perfect and her mistreatment rivals Kristen Stewart’s.
Rich people should not have good lives after becoming good people. They shouldn’t retain what they accumulated through hate after becoming good. Importantly, bad people don’t become good after a revelation and the choice to change. Change takes time. It takes pain. It takes relapses of selfishness. It has a cost.
She should’ve ran away with Aubrey Plaza. It’s a sin against the lesbian community that she didn’t.