12.29.2014

We have completed, for yet another year, the Christmas cinema trifecta

A Christmas Story, the 1983 version (accept no substitutes), is on our official blog movie list. Not one kiss in the whole thing.

Miracle on 34th Street, 1947 (see above, and beware the 1994 remake), includes a kiss, but it’s right at the end. You can avoid it if you turn the movie off when the little girl runs into the house (you’ll know when it happens). And anyway, the story’s over by then. So, carefully watched, it’s OK.

It’s a Wonderful Life the FBI called it a communist plot in it’s day—but it’s much worse than that. It’s very likely the sappiest movie ever made, and it’s riddled with kissing. Avoid it if you can.

And Happy New Year.

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