On the Buses - Christmas Duty (1970)
Classic sitcom but very much of its time.
After having to work on Christmas Day, Stan and Jack can’t seem to get home from the depot.
Christmas Episode or Special? Episode
Am I familiar with the series? Yes
Is it Christmassy? Sure
Would I Rewatch? I do every couple of years
Christmas with Mormon Tabernacle Choir
My first watch on the new Plex ad-supported streaming service and it was mislabeled.
A lovely straightforward Christmas concert. Perfect background for the season.
Copyright bug at the end said 2009 but it looks like it could be older.
Take Peace! A Corgi Cottage Christmas with Tasha Tudor (1998)
A wonderful documentary visiting National and Christmas treasure, author, illustrator, and champion of traditional Christmas Tasha Tudor. Made for children, perhaps a classroom film, but marvelous for anyone who cherishes Christmas and one of its great proponents.
Noelle aka Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007)
Not the disappointing Disney+ Anna Kendrick vehicle but an earnest (very) low-budget indie Christmas drama driven by director/star David Wall and little else. The sort of movie you really want to like but in the end, you have to admit falls short.
A priest is sent to a small Cape Cod village to determine if the local church will be shut down. A great deal of amateur theatrics ensue, some entertaining, some not so much.
I’d definitely recommend giving it a shot if faith-based indie drama is your thing though.
Around the Christmas Tree
Holiday decor with festive music ambient video. Old school and pleasant enough, though a few of the tone shifts during the two-hour program are momentarily jarring.
Christmas in Hollywood (2014)
Remember that song Key Largo, by Bertie Higgins. Bertie was a two-hit wonder (Just Another Day in Paradise was number two). Ever wonder what Bertie’s doing these days. Well, wonder no more, he’s making movies like this odd little low budget Christmas number.
I should have hated this, but I didn’t. I can’t guarantee you won’t hate it though, its very low budget and fairly eccentric. But there’s something about it, something about Bertie that kept me watching.
Look out for Bertie’s fellow veteran rockers John Ford Coley and Darren Dowler .
Rock N Roll Christmas (2019)
It’s too bad the Christmas in Hollywood guys didn’t think of making a Rock and Roll Christmas movie because it might have been pretty cool. Instead, we get this bleh mess, the least Rock and Roll thing imaginable. Heck, it’s about country singers. There’s neither Rock nor Roll within a hundred miles of this thing.
I didn’t expect much and I’m still disappointed.
