Winter is upon us! We know as much as you do that in the cold, you want nothing more than to curl up with a good book or movie. Here's some film picks from our resident movie lover Samantha to keep you cozy, or chill your bones, this winter!
Fun for the Family
If you're looking for something to keep the kids entertained indoors this season. Kanopy offers animated storybook readings! Check out their winter collection to hear classic winter stories like The Snowy Day or new ones like Supertruck!
Watch the story of Charles Dickens, then a struggling writer, and how he came to write "A Christmas Carol". Desperate for a successful novel, Dickens relies on real-life inspiration and his vivid imagination to bring Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters to life in "A Christmas Carol," forever changing the holiday season into the celebration known today.
Rated: PG
Starring: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer
Tickets: 2 Tickets
Based on the novel "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham. Luther Krank decides to skip Christmas and all the surrounding trappings and go on a vacation with his wife Nora instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home for the holiday, he is forced to put Christmas back together.
Rated: PG
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Akroyd
Tickets: 2 Tickets
Classics for the Holidays
Cary Grant stars as an angel named Dudley, sent to help a struggling bishop who has lost sight of his family while trying to build a grand cathedral. Dudley’s arrival brings unexpected miracles and a renewed sense of joy, especially to the bishop’s neglected wife. As Christmas approaches, the angel's presence brings both warmth and confusion, leaving the bishop to confront his own priorities. But Dudley’s growing affection for the bishop’s wife adds an unexpected complication to his divine mission.
Rated: NR
Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young
Tickets: 2 Tickets
It is Christmas Eve in the little country town of Wyndenham. Inside the rectory all is bustling as Jenny Gregory, the vicar's elder daughter, begins putting up the decorations. But before this particular Christmas is over, the various members of her family will have to come to terms with a number of difficult subjects, only then they can truly claim to have goodwill to all in their hearts.
Rated: NR
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
Tickets: 2 Tickets
Chilling Winter Stories
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Rated: R
Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Tickets: 2 Tickets
Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their son Daniel live a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead, the police question if he was murdered or committed suicide and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel's death and an unsettling journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel's conflicted relationship. Academy Award Winner.
Rated: R
Starring: Sandra Huller
Tickets: 2 Tickets
During a family retreat to a remote winter cabin over the holidays, the father is forced to abruptly depart for work, leaving his two children in the care of his new fiancée, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Rated: R
Starring: Riley Keough,
Richard Armitage, Jaeden Martell
Tickets: 2 Tickets
The college town of Bedford is receiving an unwelcome guest this Christmas. As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to stalk the house. One of the earliest examples of a slasher film, this creepy holiday classic is sure to terrify and delight classic horror lovers everywhere.
Rated: R
Starring: Olivia Hussey,
Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder
Tickets: 2 Tickets
After a romantic evening in their secluded lake house, Emma awakens handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband’s twisted plan.
Rated: R
Starring: Aml Ameen, Megan Fox,
Callan Mulvey, Jack Roth, Eoin Macken
Tickets: 2 Tickets
Check out the original before seeing the remake in theaters this Christmas!
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws -- perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.
Rated: NR
Starring: Max Schreck
Tickets: 2 Tickets
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