THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SCROOGE (1951)

 

Alastair Sim stars as miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this quality retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit him, revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.

The Spirits are played by Michael Dolan (Past), Francis De Wolff (Present) and Czeslaw Konarski (Future)

The other key characters and portrayed by Michael Hordern (Marley), Eleanor Summerfield (Flora), Mervyn Johns and Hermione Baddeley (The Cratchit’s), Glyn Dearman (Tiny Tim), Roddy Hughes and Hattie Jacques (The Fezziwig’s), Brian Worth (Fred) and Carol Marsh (Fan).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GROUNDED! (2017)

 

A brother and sister Missy-Ann and Du Gong Peterson (Jill Albano and Kevin Austin) are grounded at Christmastime by their stepmom Cathy-Lee (Tracey Birdsall) after they break curfew.

But they find ways to sneak out for night adventures but when their parents go away for a few days they team up with their pals Freddy Firecracker (Shane Kaufman), Valley-girl Paulina (Ashley Williams) and a much younger African American kid from the neighbourhood they call Mister Shorty (Karlin Walker) to foil a pair of fugitive bank robbers.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS CURFEW – THE GROUNDED (2017)

 

A brother and sister Missy-Ann and Du Gong Peterson (Jill Albano and Kevin Austin) are grounded at Christmastime by their stepmom Cathy-Lee (Tracey Birdsall) after they break curfew.

But they find ways to sneak out for night adventures but when their parents go away for a few days they team up with their pals Freddy Firecracker (Shane Kaufman), Valley-girl Paulina (Ashley Williams) and a much younger African American kid from the neighbourhood they call Mister Shorty (Karlin Walker) to foil a pair of fugitive bank robbers.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE GROUNDED (2017)

 

A brother and sister Missy-Ann and Du Gong Peterson (Jill Albano and Kevin Austin) are grounded at Christmastime by their stepmom Cathy-Lee (Tracey Birdsall) after they break curfew.

But they find ways to sneak out for night adventures but when their parents go away for a few days they team up with their pals Freddy Firecracker (Shane Kaufman), Valley-girl Paulina (Ashley Williams) and a much younger African American kid from the neighbourhood they call Mister Shorty (Karlin Walker) to foil a pair of fugitive bank robbers.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS CURFEW (2017)

 

A brother and sister Missy-Ann and Du Gong Peterson (Jill Albano

And Kevin Austin) are grounded at Christmastime by their stepmom Cathy-Lee (Tracey Birdsall) after they break curfew.

But they find ways to sneak out for night adventures but when their parents go away for a few days they team up with their pals Freddy Firecracker (Shane Kaufman), Valley-girl Paulina (Ashley Williams) and a much younger African American kid from the neighbourhood they call Mister Shorty (Karlin Walker) to foil a pair of fugitive bank robbers.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOME & ALONE FOR CHRISTMAS

 

Martin Taylor (George Newbern) realises he has totally lost touch with his family; he has no clue who his teenage daughter, Lu, (Taylor Spreitler) is or who her friends are, he has no idea why his son, Adam (Aidan Potter) only communicates with him via an electronic sign outside his bedroom door, or why his youngest child Jessie (Francesca Capaldi) only watches faith TV.

His whacky survivalist brother Sam, (Kevin Crowley) convinces him that the family needs to reconnect, so Martin surprises his wife Jackie (Megyn Price) and his kids with a little experiment, he locks them in their own home with no power, no heat, no running water, and absolutely no contact with the world outside!

The sudden holiday staycation isn't what the Taylors had in mind for the weekend, but they have to team up to prove they can survive Dad's wacky mission.

The multi-talented Writer and director, Corbin Bernsen, also appears in an enjoyable cameo as a cameraman.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS PLEDGE (2023)

 

June Schroeder (Isabelle Almoyan) leaves her job working for her overbearing multimillionaire father John Schroeder (Ron Ford) in order to strike out on her own, but he buys up every company that employs her.

So June finds a job with PBS TV station that her father legally cannot purchase and convinces Claire Rubin (Michelle Lundy) to let her work there.

The problem is that her old college adversary Declan Riordan (David Michael Reardon) and are very antagonistic towards each other but make it work well enough to impress their only sponsor, actor Cary Leech (Wes Deitrick).

They come up with a plan to revive the stations fortunes and put on a Christmas concert, but on the night of the big event disaster strikes.

So will they be able to turn disaster into success by appealing to the wider public that they serve? And will their animosity to romance?