THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EVE (2014)

 

Putting her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evie Lee (Charleene Closshey), is forced to return to her small hometown of Balsam Falls, Tennessee, after the sudden death of her father.

Following the funeral, much to her younger brother's dismay, she is left the family's once-thriving Christmas tree farm and finds that the estate has a massive inheritance tax bill to pay.

As a result, Evie is forced to choose between pursuing her music career and saving her family's legacy, while being constantly badgered by a potential buyer, Becky Tamora (Tiz McWilliams), and fielding calls from her employer Babette (Skyler Stonestreet).

Tyler Ritter provides the romantic interest as she tries to decide where her place in the world is.

Robert Loggia, Booboo Stewart and Naomi Judd also feature in this heart-warming musical holiday tale.

MUSIC IN SPACE

 

Round the world they go

In nineteen sixty-five

Orbiting the earth

So high up in the sky

 

Dashing round the world

Above the earth they race

Jingle Bells the song, was

The first one played in space

 

O Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way.
Oh! What fun it is to ride

In a spaceship far away hey

 

Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells

SEASONAL SNIPPET # 06

 

The early Puritan settlers of America declared Christmas celebration as a “relic of Popery,” and they abolished it.

PANTOMIME # 2

 

Pantomime is a traditional Christmas and New Year entertainment unique and peculiar to the British theatre.
Pantomime origins can be traced back to the 16th and 17th century Italian improvised comic drama called the Commedia Dell'arte.
Punch and Judy, Harlequinade and the French tradition of mime also have their origins in the commedia Dell'arte.
With its roots deep in the harlequin tradition of the 18th century combined with the music hall burlesque of the 19th forged what we know today as pantomime where an actress always plays the part of principal boy and an actor always plays the dame.
The Pantomimes used traditional fairy tales like Mother Goose Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood in which they wove into the story political satire, parodies of popular figures and slapstick thus providing something for everyone.
The great thing about Panto is that it is the one part of British culture which refuses to embrace Political Correctness, thank god.
By the end of every Panto virtue is rewarded, love conquers all, good defeats evil and everyone lives happily ever after.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LITTLE WOMEN (1978)

 

Little Women is Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s and is a “coming of age” drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg (Meredith Baxter), Jo (Susan Dey), Beth (Eve Plumb) and Amy (Ann Dusenberry), who struggle to make ends meet in their New England household while the girl’s father, Jonathan (William Schallert), is away fighting in the Civil War.

I his absence the family is headed by the girl’s beloved mother Marmee (Dorothy McGuire), and the March family are supported by the help of their kind and wealthy neighbour, Mr. Laurence (Robert Young), and his high-spirited grandson Laurie (Richard Gilliland).

The story details the March girl’s passage from childhood to womanhood and despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.

The other pivotal characters in the story are Aunt Kathryn March (Greer Garson) and Prof. Friedrich Bhaer (William Shatner).

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

 

I don’t want a present

That’s very practical

Or a gift home made

Or something musical

Something for wearing

Thoughtful or twee

Things for the garden

Or things fragrant or smelly

Nothing expensive when

The value is shocking

I just want something shapely

In a Christmas stocking

SEASONAL SNIPPET # 07

St Lucia's day, December 13th is celebrated In Sweden with the youngest girl in the family wearing or carrying a crown of small lit candles this is appropriate as Lucia means light.