THE BEST FILMS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN (HOLIDAY ALTERNATIVES # 1) – NOISE

NOISE (AUSTRALIA, 2007)

All the good Christmas movies are taken.  Let’s face it, given the name of this column, it would be suspect, let alone irresponsible, to suggest you revisit It’s a Wonderful Life, or A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, Scrooged, Elf, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation…and so on.  Therefore, the only way to fulfill the mission statement of this series is to dig deep for titles whose only claim to being Christmas movies is that they happen to take place around Christmas, yet in all other respects are not only decidedly off the beaten path, but—you should be forewarned here—not exactly uplifting, either. {Read More}