Month: November 2025

Big Screen: Wonderful, It is

This 1946 post-war black and white melodrama about the tenuous American dream became a Christmas classic when its copyright expired and television channels could play it for free in the 1970s. There’s your American dream right there.

Xthnru reminds us about the gist of this life-or-death feel-good cinematic failure in the quotey “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Clarence’s Regret Remix)“. Yeah, it’s upsetting, especially, without the intervention.

Glenn Crytzer uses his big band sound to deliver the message that “It’s a Wonderful Life” during Christmas despite all your misgivings. Tepidly terrific, dropping movie clues throughout..

Robbie Williams (feat. Poppa Pete) is more obscure when assuring us “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Just jazz band hyperbole, but can’t help making the association.

A heartfelt tribute to the pain of life, “Clarence” by The Felice Brothers layers fiddling folk all over the succotash of bankers banking, bathroom stall graffiti, and angels’ relief at not being alive. Spiraling.

“George Bailey” by Carolyn Sills is awesome cowboy pop that takes Mary’s side and slams out a love ballad. That’s what that movie’s about, kids.

Big Screen: Hallmark Still

“First Married Christmas” from CityBeach has all the class of Hallmark movies, including cuddling up and watching Hallmark movies. Wishy washy pop.

Metal pop ramps up the expectations, but Theory of a Deadman leans into “Missing You This Christmas” includes boogie B.S. like sweaters and Hallmark movies like any ‘burbanite would get behind. Headscratching now.

More apropos, swinging light big band “When Christmas Comes Around” puts Cody Fry in the right demographic for Watching hallmark movies all night long. Bippedy boo.

On his “Christmas List” Young Tuck settles for middle class mores as well. Snuggling seems to be the correct attitude for catching up on Hallmark movies… Or we can watch Die Hard or Elf(!). More R+B lyrical rap.

Warren Alfvin sloshes the easy listening all over “It’s a Hallmark Movie Day!“, describing the settings of both the protagonists as well as the viewers. Oxymoron of the day: I’m a Hallmark movie man.

On the other channel, Hallmark movies are for wallowing. See “Christmas For One” by Haylee Oller, so softly folded that the ukulele drowns out her (sub)vocals.

Big Screen: Hallmark Already

“Into Christmas” for JOYWIRE means Hallmark Channel movies on replay. This pop rocker has an infectious beat that supersedes their taste. So, uh hunh.

Wonderstate’s “Covered in Love” compares Hallmark movies to reality when Christmas chaos ensues. It’s a low bar, but there you are. Soft country pop.

“You, Me & Hallmark Christmas Movies” by Jason Michael also blurs the lines with his crazy, crazy romantic roller coaster of a holiday. Country slurred pop.

She tries to escape the big cityscape begins “Like A Hallmark Movie” and thus does Austin Martinez reveal the secret formula to the perpetual motion machine. Garage rock.

“Tangerine Christmas” brought to you be Donny & the Bunnies is an odd duck of a holiday celebration, with desserts and cookies hanging on trees, and Hallmark movies on TV. But the gentle pop enlightens us. We were all the hummingbirds rac(ing) around the palm trees. Each one of us.

Big Screen: Post Solstice Projections

“Long Last Lovin’” allows DATKIDT (feat. Miss Polenisia & Toa) to love all over Xmas. Including Watching old Christmas movies. Slack guitar pop.

“Don’t Stop The Jingle” insists Jeffery DX with some krumping jump blues backing his rap. Cookies and movies? Check! Can’t stop it!

Cheesy pop from Hilary Duff delineates “When the Snow Comes Down in Tinseltown“. Movies and merriment? Who knew?? Make it stop.

“Tinsel Town” by SHeDAISY is more straightforward irony smushing Hollywood’s values with Christmas’s morals. Sprightly country pop.

“Karaoke In a Bar” seems to be the antidote for those Christmas movies playing over the taps. Tara Thompson girlies her way through this depressed country bummer. Anti-Christmas?

Big Screen: Yutletide Silver Screen

Francesca Castro returns us to the thrilling days of the pandemic in her R+B “Santa’s Gotta Stay Home“. Movies aren’t a problem at least. Making a meal of these lyrics is.

Putting the meh in meh-ry Xmas, Eleni and the Uprising millennially rock “Chilly“. Movies put the numbness on hold, briefly. Bleak.

Holly Berry can no longer stomach those films “This Christmas“, ‘cuz you’re not there. Minimalistic R+B to tug at your feels.

Mommy said we could Watch Christmas movies, maintain the children while dad partakes of a “Christmas Cup of Cheer“. Then another. What’s in the cup, Daddy? wonders this sloshy pop of an experimental number. Messages are questioned.

Big Screen: Christmas Eve Pictures

“Can’t Believe” is Eli Carvajal giving up all hope during the pandemic of 2020, even after watching millions and millions of sickening Christmas movies. Uke pop of the weird kind.

“Together At Christmas” has Big Little Lions slapping pop with a hand clapping insistence cherishing traditions (movies!) at that time of the year. Sing-along!.

Movies playing are one more noise in the “Holiday Chaos” from CountrAI, yes that’s AI with a country (sort of) sound. Family fussin’ and feudin’.

Stumbling English piles up the customs in David Cavada’s “Christmas Melody“, a sluggish pop paean to some season somewhere. Movies are in there, i guess.

Sittin’ at the movies your hands in my Christmas jeans, rockabillies Nodrums (with drums) in the where-did-that-come-from “Christmas Jeans“. Holy what? Now i want some. Where did i put that list?!

Big Screen: Three Kings’ Day Odeon

The New Starts Now loves “This Christmas” with the same love they have for you. Twangy country pop, however, dismisses the movies along with the sweaters. I see….

Annoying Orange wants to be on the good boy list, so figures to rap about watching movies with friends in the annoying “Christmas Wrap“. Fail.

Addi Marie’s “Hometown Christmas” sounds like Norman Rockwell, but smells like Hell. Dead-voiced tinkly pop fingers family activities (movies!) like they’re symptoms. Refreshingly, disturbingly odd.

Pair that with Michael Amidei’s “It’s Christmas (And I Don’t Feel A Thing)“, a straight-shootin’ confessional of slow pop disaffected. Time for better help.com.

Big Screen: Santa’s Scene Moving Picture

Chromonicci mashes a Mel Torme sound with a hip hopping backbeat for “Wonderful Christmas.” Tree decoration and hot apple cider pair well, it is sung, with Christmas movies all night. Well, that depends….

When “Every Month Is Christmas” Jonathan R Holman, Mureka figure the movies roll in around November. I guess AI is easily fooled in this pop torment. Those films roll out: All. Year. Long.

In the “Letter To Santa” We Love Christmas get R+B rapping cozy with all the accoutrement (movies, yeah)–but they still want more. I don’t.

The Bingle Jells (feat. Andrew Lloyd Baughman) daub a dismal picture of a “Latchkey Kid At Christmas“. Guess you could watch movies…. Grandly dismal slow pop, mocked with brass. Cool cool cool.

Big Screen: Candlemas Talkies

“At Christmas Time” Dupree & co. watch movies and sip cocoa and all that in some bouncy R+B/rap. Sweet vocal, swollen cliches.

PARIS The Prince used to love all those traditions but with the onset of “Frostbite” he’s taken a second, R+B pop look at y’all. It’s not yule, it’s him.

Movies playing on repeat is what “Mistletoe Love” means to Ryan Rane and Noah Strykes. Brothers creeping on you with pop folk is not how i wanna go.

“I’ve Got You, You’ve Got Me (Merry Christmas)” is some fine punk caroling from Ordersixty-six. Their movie tradition is Die Hard one two but not three. Santa outro. Well done.

Big Screen: Twelfth Night Photodrama

“Darling, It’s Cold Out” by Cassiøpeia is a pining portrait of indie needs that may be blaming holiday romcoms on the need for winter romancing. Breathy ultralight pop with a bossa nova beat.

Electronic queer pop from Europe sets OIOIOIO to redo “Parson Brown” as a reaching sooo hard for the rhyme poem of inconsequence. (He’s hosting his Christmas party by showing movies!)(Snicker!)

Christmas movies they move me, avers Lachlan Ondre (feat. Lyn) in the R+B on again rap off again “The Bells Ring“. Pedestrian, yet i can’t help but clap along.

“Merry Christmas To You” sings Aaron Layne with the usual suspects of nog, movies, carols. But the jazz band shtick fronted by a strong uke line sells me.