Home Alone<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Home-Alone-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cMerry Christmas, ya filthy animals!\u201d If you haven\u2019t seen Home Alone <\/em>yet, then this Christmas is a great opportunity to experience it for the first time, especially given that it\u2019s available in a crisp 4K version. Macaulay Culkin stars as the whip-smart Kevin, who must lay traps for a pair of hapless burglars who have decided to break into his home. The \u201cWet Bandits\u201d are, of course, not a real threat, but Kevin\u2019s constant outsmarting of their schemes is a continual joy to watch. Of course, Home Alone <\/em>isn\u2019t going to win any awards for deep philosophical themes, but it\u2019s an excellent movie that looks beautiful in 4K and works for the whole family.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDie Hard<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Die-Hard-4k-christmas.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDon\u2019t let anybody tell you that Die Hard <\/em>isn\u2019t a Christmas movie, because it very much is. John McClane\u2019s worst day ever takes place entirely on Christmas Eve and sees McClane, played by a gamely ordinary Bruce Willis, infiltrating a tower in order to take down Alan Rickman\u2019s Hans Gruber. The sets may be light on Christmas decorations, but Die Hard<\/em>\u2019s overriding sense of right beating wrong makes it the ideal movie to watch during the holiday season. The sequels suffer from diminishing returns, so make sure you stick with the first movie if you want to get the best possible experience. Willis, Rickman, and the supporting cast are excellent, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFrozen<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Frozen.webp\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIs Frozen <\/em>actually<\/a> a Christmas movie? Some may say no, but we\u2019re including it on this lits purely because of the sheer ubiquity of the film around the holiday season. If you\u2019re a parent, you\u2019ll know how completely inescapable \u201cLet it Go\u201d is around this time, and if you\u2019re not a parent yet, you have that to look forward to. Thankfully, the offending song is near the start of the movie, and the rest is a heartwarming, well-crafted tale about sisterhood and femininity. The more frivolous elements of Frozen <\/em>mask a serious attempt to talk about real issues, and while the movie doesn\u2019t always land, it hits enough of its targets that it\u2019s worth rewatching again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGremlins<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Gremlins-xmas-4k.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGremlins <\/em>begins with a prominent character trying to find a Christmas present, which means we\u2019re including it on our list<\/a>. You can get a beautiful 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for Gremlins<\/em>, so it\u2019s well worth revisiting even if this is a perennial Christmas favourite in your household. As we all know, you should never feed your Mogwai after midnight, but Gremlins <\/em>makes a great movie to gather round and watch during that fabled hour when Christmas Eve transitions into Christmas Day. If you\u2019ve never seen Gremlins <\/em>before, you may be shocked by just how grisly and gross it can be; it has a reputation as a great kids\u2019 movie, but like Ghostbusters<\/em>, it needs a little clarification before it can be shown to little ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s A Wonderful Life<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Its-A-Wonderful-Life-xmas0-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThere are very few movies out there as utterly heartwarming and beautiful as It\u2019s A Wonderful Life<\/em>. James Stewart earned a reputation as a lovable everyman actor during his time on the screen, and watching this earnest, sentimental masterpiece, it\u2019s not hard to understand why. Stewart is affably tragic as the disgraced George Bailey, who decides to end his own life before being visited by a guardian angel who attempts to dissuade him from his decision. You don\u2019t need us to tell you how this ends – \u201cClarence, I\u2019ve changed my mind!\u201d – but even if you know how the movie is going to conclude, it\u2019s still a tear-jerkingly life-affirming ride all the way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDr. Seuss\u2019 How The Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dr.-Seuss-How-The-Grinch-Stole-Christmas-xmas-1024x632.jpeg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Grinch is truly the role Jim Carrey was born to play. Anyone who\u2019s ever expressed any kind of negative opinion about Christmas – and thus, by necessity, been called a \u201cgrinch\u201d – will sympathise with the titular green monster\u2019s plight; he hates the holiday and wants to ruin it for the Whos, so he sets out to steal everything that makes Christmas special for them. Of course, things don\u2019t go entirely according to plan. While The Grinch <\/em>might have a fairly obvious conclusion, watching Carrey ham it up (no pun intended) as the eponymous monster is enough of a joy that you can forgive the narrative shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDaddy\u2019s Home 2<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Daddys-Home-2-xmas-1024x640.jpeg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe range of 4K Christmas movies is actually pretty limited, but Daddy\u2019s Home 2 <\/em>still justifies its position on this list by being a passably amusing and diverting little Christmas comedy. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star as Brad and Dusty, two fathers who had to put their differences aside in order to co-parent in the first movie. Now, however, Brad and Dusty\u2019s own fathers are coming to visit for Christmas, which, as you can imagine, leads to all kinds of hijinx. Daddy\u2019s Home 2 <\/em>isn\u2019t perfect; it\u2019s creaky, frequently cringeworthy, and utterly predictable. Still, when Christmas rolls around, the last thing you want is to be intellectually challenged, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as the song says, so it\u2019s time to start thinking about all the great Christmas movies you\u2019ll be watching over this festive period. While many Christmas movies have been consigned to the annals of history, and are thus unavailable to watch in shiny 4K, you\u2019ll find that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6946,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdleaks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cMerry Christmas, ya filthy animals!\u201d If you haven\u2019t seen Home Alone <\/em>yet, then this Christmas is a great opportunity to experience it for the first time, especially given that it\u2019s available in a crisp 4K version. Macaulay Culkin stars as the whip-smart Kevin, who must lay traps for a pair of hapless burglars who have decided to break into his home. The \u201cWet Bandits\u201d are, of course, not a real threat, but Kevin\u2019s constant outsmarting of their schemes is a continual joy to watch. Of course, Home Alone <\/em>isn\u2019t going to win any awards for deep philosophical themes, but it\u2019s an excellent movie that looks beautiful in 4K and works for the whole family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t let anybody tell you that Die Hard <\/em>isn\u2019t a Christmas movie, because it very much is. John McClane\u2019s worst day ever takes place entirely on Christmas Eve and sees McClane, played by a gamely ordinary Bruce Willis, infiltrating a tower in order to take down Alan Rickman\u2019s Hans Gruber. The sets may be light on Christmas decorations, but Die Hard<\/em>\u2019s overriding sense of right beating wrong makes it the ideal movie to watch during the holiday season. The sequels suffer from diminishing returns, so make sure you stick with the first movie if you want to get the best possible experience. Willis, Rickman, and the supporting cast are excellent, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is Frozen <\/em>actually<\/a> a Christmas movie? Some may say no, but we\u2019re including it on this lits purely because of the sheer ubiquity of the film around the holiday season. If you\u2019re a parent, you\u2019ll know how completely inescapable \u201cLet it Go\u201d is around this time, and if you\u2019re not a parent yet, you have that to look forward to. Thankfully, the offending song is near the start of the movie, and the rest is a heartwarming, well-crafted tale about sisterhood and femininity. The more frivolous elements of Frozen <\/em>mask a serious attempt to talk about real issues, and while the movie doesn\u2019t always land, it hits enough of its targets that it\u2019s worth rewatching again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gremlins <\/em>begins with a prominent character trying to find a Christmas present, which means we\u2019re including it on our list<\/a>. You can get a beautiful 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for Gremlins<\/em>, so it\u2019s well worth revisiting even if this is a perennial Christmas favourite in your household. As we all know, you should never feed your Mogwai after midnight, but Gremlins <\/em>makes a great movie to gather round and watch during that fabled hour when Christmas Eve transitions into Christmas Day. If you\u2019ve never seen Gremlins <\/em>before, you may be shocked by just how grisly and gross it can be; it has a reputation as a great kids\u2019 movie, but like Ghostbusters<\/em>, it needs a little clarification before it can be shown to little ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are very few movies out there as utterly heartwarming and beautiful as It\u2019s A Wonderful Life<\/em>. James Stewart earned a reputation as a lovable everyman actor during his time on the screen, and watching this earnest, sentimental masterpiece, it\u2019s not hard to understand why. Stewart is affably tragic as the disgraced George Bailey, who decides to end his own life before being visited by a guardian angel who attempts to dissuade him from his decision. You don\u2019t need us to tell you how this ends – \u201cClarence, I\u2019ve changed my mind!\u201d – but even if you know how the movie is going to conclude, it\u2019s still a tear-jerkingly life-affirming ride all the way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Grinch is truly the role Jim Carrey was born to play. Anyone who\u2019s ever expressed any kind of negative opinion about Christmas – and thus, by necessity, been called a \u201cgrinch\u201d – will sympathise with the titular green monster\u2019s plight; he hates the holiday and wants to ruin it for the Whos, so he sets out to steal everything that makes Christmas special for them. Of course, things don\u2019t go entirely according to plan. While The Grinch <\/em>might have a fairly obvious conclusion, watching Carrey ham it up (no pun intended) as the eponymous monster is enough of a joy that you can forgive the narrative shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The range of 4K Christmas movies is actually pretty limited, but Daddy\u2019s Home 2 <\/em>still justifies its position on this list by being a passably amusing and diverting little Christmas comedy. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star as Brad and Dusty, two fathers who had to put their differences aside in order to co-parent in the first movie. Now, however, Brad and Dusty\u2019s own fathers are coming to visit for Christmas, which, as you can imagine, leads to all kinds of hijinx. Daddy\u2019s Home 2 <\/em>isn\u2019t perfect; it\u2019s creaky, frequently cringeworthy, and utterly predictable. Still, when Christmas rolls around, the last thing you want is to be intellectually challenged, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as the song says, so it\u2019s time to start thinking about all the great Christmas movies you\u2019ll be watching over this festive period. 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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFrozen<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGremlins<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s A Wonderful Life<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDr. Seuss\u2019 How The Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDaddy\u2019s Home 2<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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