There's a Psychological Reason Why You Find Comfort in Mediocre Christmas Movies?🎥🎄🎅🎬

Silent Night (2023)

John Woo has a new Christmas movie out at the cinema right now?

'Tis the season for binging 'bad' Christmas movies

I don't think I'll be forking out for a cinema ticket to see this "Christmas movie" of John Woo's after paying for a ticket to see a similar looking action Xmas movie with my son last year -

Tis the Season?🎄🥊🎅

"Christmas is marketed as a happy, joyful time, but Mr Nicolau says for many people the holidays can be stressful.
"Very often, it's people coming together who spend most of the year not coming together, not wanting to interact for whatever reasons, and they feel obliged to do it [at Christmas]," he says.
"Often all those unresolved issues that may have occurred throughout the year sort of coalesce around this time.""

Will these movies endure
the test of time?

Humbug to all that, I say;-)

Synchronicity in Psychotherapy?

Invasive Argentinian scarab beetles being
mistaken for Christmas beetles

"He says in order for Christmas movies to leave their mark, there needs to be some sort of underlying narrative which sits on the periphery of the Christmas aesthetic.
"I think this goes back to the discourse of Die Hard and Home Alone or The Nightmare Before Christmas," he says.
"They take the kind of concept of a traditional Christmas film, and slightly twist it.
"So you have the Christmas aesthetic, and you have the Christmas atmosphere, but you've also got a narrative within that film, which doesn't actually rely on the holiday to work.""

Willis’ condition has been
worsening in recent weeks

Coral Sea island [Willis] to be evacuated as
Tropical Cyclone Jasper threatens direct hit

Not a Good Sign for Willis?🌊🌀

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