With Christmas Break looms large, I’m taking it a bit easier with the old blog. I’ve seen some great—and not-so-great—movies lately, but they can wait a few weeks for 2024.
Instead, I thought I’d take a look back at a timeless Christmas classic of yesteryear, a film I reviewed along with Audre Myers and Ponty during the 2022 Christmas season.
That film, of course, is 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s a film that is somehow more than a mere movie. It’s a flick that can be judged and appreciated as a movie, of course, but it’s also one that transcends the medium, and is part of the whole Zeitgeist of Christmas. It’s hard to separate it from the very notion of “Christmas.”
With that, here’s my review from last year:
The Portly Politico 