Sunday, November 30, 2014

Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop


My favorite Christmas movie right now is Rare Exports,  a Finnish movie about a small community of reindeer hunters who have the misfortune to live near the mountain ‘home’ of the real Santa. This movie is a dark comedy and is both subtly and occasionally laugh out loud funny. I love the way that rural people aren’t shown as idiots, like they normally seem to be in movies made for distribution in the US. Also the movie shows a lovely relationship between father and son.







Just to warn you, there are naked old men in Rare Exports. Here is the trailer.




I also wanted to mention the Saint Nick movie. This is a fun horror set in Amsterdam. Saint Nick comes back to terrorize the people of Amsterdam when a full moon falls on December 5th. There is a running joke about the situation hurting the Dutch relationship with Spain, since the local legend says St Nick takes bad children to his castle in Spain.




 

For my horsey friends, St Nick has a lovely horse.


I will be giving away an Amazon gift card, a beaded bracelet and earing set and a copy of my Christmas story Rejoice: a Burden.  To enter let me know what your favorite holiday movie is!  




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12 comments:

  1. I have a bunch of favorite Christmas movies. They are in no particular order: “It’s A Wonderful Life”,” Miracle on 34th Street”, (starring a very young Natalie Wood),” White Christmas” with Bing Crosby, “A Christmas Carol” starring Alistair Sims, “Home Alone” 1 & 2, “Die Hard” (I know it’s not an actual Christmas movie, but its set around Christmas time) and the animated version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. Of course Christmas would not be complete without “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.
    Thanks for being part of this fun hop and for the chance to win. <^_^>
    reneebennett35 (at) yahoo (dot) com

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    1. Die Hard is totally a Christmas movie! and I love Grinch (well I haven't seen the live action one)

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  2. My favourite holiday movie is White Christmas however I also love It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street!
    Thanks for the chance!
    ygamble at bellaliant dot net

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    1. I recently read a book about the Camera Corps during WW2 and it went into the making of It's a Wonderful Life.

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  3. My fav holiday movie is Die Hard. There's action, a tad of romance and an awesome soundtrack with Christmas the perfect background.
    Thanks for the giveaway!
    iloveromancebooks1234@gmail.com

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  4. I love Gone with the wind for Christmas, the lavish Christmas the Butler family has is so worth watching! Sad results however!

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    1. You know, I hadn't even thought of Gone With the Wind for Christmas! I may have to give it a watch this season

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  5. My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story. :)
    I haven't heard of St Nick. I'll have to check it out.
    Happy Holidays! Thank you for the hop!

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    1. I have an abiding love for European Horror, and my St Nick has both English and Dutch (with subtitles) and that is fun as well.

      I love Christmas Story!

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  6. I love A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott. It is my favorite version of the movie.

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    1. That is an awesome version of the story. I like the Muppet one as well

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