Day 8: Gremlins (1984)
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Day 8: Gremlins (1984)

It's Day 8 and that means it's time for Gremlins!! Depending on whether you agree with Topher's review on White Christmas and it NOT being a "Christmas movie" or Kelley's review of It's a Wonderful Life and it NOT being about Christmas, Gremlins might be the third non-Christmas movie on our list. Personally, I think they're all Christmas films, but the argument could be made that if you can replace Christmas in a film with any other holiday and have little or no change on the plot, then it's not really about Christmas and thus not a true Christmas movie.…
Day 7: A Christmas Story (1983)
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Day 7: A Christmas Story (1983)

Day 7 of IJA 12 Days of Christmas brings us A Christmas Story. For many of you the first exposure to this movie was from the 24 hour marathon on TBS every Christmas (do they still do that?). Growing up this movie was synonymous with Christmas although I don't think I saw the full film until I was older. The list of quotes and memorable moments though are ingrained in our pop culture. You'll shoot your eye out! Remember kids - drink more Ovalteen Look it’s Italian!  Frageelé Oh fuuuuuudge! The interesting thing about each of the moments though are…
Day 6: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
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Day 6: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

For day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas, we'll be looking at A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).  Now I know this is not technically a movie but in my household we can not go a holiday season without this gracing our screens!  As Charles gets the feels about "Miracle on 34th Street", I too get all the feels when this film comes to mind. The ever-down-trotten Charlie Brown is searching for the meaning of Christmas through all the commercialism and production that surrounds him.  His best "frenemy" Lucy suggests he direct the Christmas play.  Through all his efforts and…