Actor Will Ferrell is an acquired taste. His characters can be brash and annoying. However, in Jon Favreau’s modern holiday classic elf, Ferrell is perfectly cast as the naïve man-child Buddy, who as an infant stowed away on Santa’s (Ed Asner) sleigh during a stop at the orphanage. Not knowing what to do with [...]

My, how technology has improved in eighteen years. In 2004, filmmakers Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis brought the popular children’s storybook The Polar Express to the big screen. Their decision to use a technology called performance capture to animate the entire film, something that had only been used sporadically in feature films up to that point to [...]

The holiday favorite National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray with a nice 4K transfer and not much else.

It’s hard to believe that Bob Clark’s nostalgic film from 1983, A Christmas Story, was considered a box office disappointment during its original theatrical run, earning $20.8 million on a $3.3 million budget, but was only playing in a handful of theaters the week of Christmas that year. It was home video and eventually its 24 hour marathon airings [...]