These Hallmark-esque Christmas movies are cluttering up my Boomer nostalgia content search results.

Standing here frozen in indecision about whether I roast the controversial vegetables (beets, sprouts) with the potatoes and carrots. I am shouting "BUT MY MELANGE!" into the void.

It's a Wonderful Life has now joined the Letterboxd One Million Watched Club 🔔 👼

11:59 pm, December 25: Christmas can be so hard, and it will feel good to get back to a normal routine. 12:01 am, December 26: IT'S OVER WHEN I SAY IT'S OVER, AND THAT'S NEVER, NEVER I TELL YOU.

We have put on THE THING. A film, I think, that the baby Jesus would have appreciated.

♥️🎄

Werner Herzog holiday anecdote

I wouldn’t feel as if it were Christmas if I didn’t share Balmain’s 1955 cocktail dress. I can only imagine how the wearer felt, arriving in this perfect Christmas gown. To all those who celebrate, I hope you are enjoying peace with favourite people. Sold via #KerryTaylorAuct #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

Have woken up very early—the body's memory of excitement about Santa is hard to suppress. And I'm thinking about my mom, who would be awake at this time to sneak full stockings onto the ends of our beds. I can still feel the happy, comforting weight of them resting at my feet. Merry Christmas!

The annual tradition of posting Glenda Farrell’s 4-part tree-trimming escapades from 1938: (1/4) “‘There's an art to trimming a free,’ claimed Glenda Farrell, and invited the skeptical cameraman, Charles Rhodes, up to demonstrate.” …

Merry Christmas, friends! I've gotten all of you the same gift, only $4.99 from K-TEL Records & Tapes. youtu.be/kZlrrwUIwcE?...

Tonight is Christmas Eve, when we in Iceland open presents. All the Yule Lads have already come down from the mountains, but tonight the Yule Cat arrives and he will eat all the children who weren't gifted any new clothes for Christmas. My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏

Atmosphere-wise, we're approaching Xtreme Christmas.

Happy to take other candidates for the most aggressively mid-century Christmas album cover.

Bebe Daniels encourages you to get decked out in your most festive ensemble this holiday eve.

For fans of slapstick, the restoration of one of Laurel & Hardy's greatest shorts. #filmsky

It's Christmas and they're asking me to turn off my Stan Freberg records.

Unbeatable Capitol Records Christmas vibes. youtu.be/5ZvbS5yAMV0?...

Fresh loaf cooling on an oven mitt.

Being taken to the emergency room on Christmas Day after trying to imitate a single move from "Turkey Lurkey Time" for an ungrateful audience.

We're expecting a huge amount of snow today, but I have prepared by getting 7 kinds of chips.

Everybody's got their own favorite CHEERS opener. This is mine. youtu.be/sebg44MS_io?...

Bridget Everett, MVP of everything she touches. (Have just finished WAKE UP DEAD MAN.)

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Nobody at work had seen IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and I tried to play it cool, but my voice got very loud.

My favorite Christmas thing of all time are the cats who take one look at the holiest scene in Christendom and say "That baby's in my spot."

Oh, what a TREAT.

On TCM in an hour. Will put a smile on your face.

Coworkers have lured me out of bed with the promise of treats.

Dreamed a salesman came by to show me a case full of laser levels and I was like "is your heart really in this?" and he said "no" and then we watched THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

Digging through my Christmas GIFs and have found this, the source of at least 15% of my childhood trauma. From HEIDI:

Outgrowing spunky, teenage girl roles, LADY ON A TRAIN provided Deanna Durbin with a chance to play a sophisticated part. The film is a thriller set around Christmas, but with generous helpings of the fast-paced comedy at which Durbin excelled.

Thinking of family Christmas decorations and mementos that have been lost through various moves, deaths, and decluttering urges. That tangible stuff that is so essential to memory, grief, and ritual, and which I have so little of now.

The little drummer boy and the "Do You Hear What I Hear?" shepherd boy are in the basement coming up with the worst Christmas show their parents have ever endured.

The fabric is described as lavender voile, which sounds as if it could be the name of a 1920s detective. The sheer drapery is decorated with bright pink spangles of flowers and bows, sparkles across pale background #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Really looking forward to the time vortex of December 27 to January 1 when I survive on Chex Mix and watch so many fucking musicals.

TCM will honor the life and career of the late Rob Reiner with a programming tribute including a special premiere presentation of THE PRINCESS BRIDE ('87) next month: https://bit.ly/3MN4T0x

How about you a-line right up for your testimony at The Hague.

Lung fitness test, but you're just asked to sing "Carol of the Bells."

The films of the year: 26 discoveries, 10 old favourites, 7 bad movies, 6 re-appraisals and 5 obsessions. Feat. all your faves: Linda Fiorentino, Joan Micklin Silver, Sinners, Wallis Island, Argentinean child noir, and really quite a lot of John Ford. advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

Following @thebasementtan.bsky.social's lead. Here's my current Xmas movie shelf - still minus a few items, including Muppets Christmas Carol. Not present, but on my must-buy list, The Holdovers and a perfect British B-movie I have only recently seen, Cash on Demand (1961).

Hundreds of good acting jobs were lost when the movies stopped featuring exasperated judges.

Tonight's rewatch. A Christmas film because it has a Christmas scene, and one of the great hangouts. It feels like John Ford on vacation, but Ford on vacation still has more to say about identity and community than most of his peers (if he even had any).

All the AI guys on here are like

If you were a Christmas cookie, what kind of cookie would you be?

Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine: www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...