Foster on Film

American Jack Woods (Randy Quaid) travels to a village in Ireland to buy up property, and falls in love with local girl Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Orla Brady).  He also saves the leprechaun king,  Seamus Muldoon (Colm Meaney).  While Jack and Kathleen begin a stormy relationship, Mickey (Daniel Betts), the son of the leprechaun king, and Princess

Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck, voice: Alan Young), ignores Christmas and his fellow “man,” has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred (Donald Duck, voice: Clarence Nash), and makes life difficult for his employee, Bob Cratchit (Mickey Mouse, voice: Wayne Allwine).  The ghost of his partner (Goofy, voice: Hal Smith) appears to him at night

There is only one problem with the nice old man (Edmund Gwenn) hired to play the Macy’s Santa Claus; he thinks he is Santa Claus.  When he is institutionalized, it is up to a young lawyer (John Payne) to show that the old man not only isn’t insane, but that he is Santa Claus.  And

Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins), the parade organizer for Cole’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, hires an unknown jolly old man (Richard Attenborough) as a replacement for their drunken Santa Claus, first for the parade, and then for the department store.  The problem is, he thinks he is Santa, and as he tries to bring a bit of

Near-sighted Mister Magoo (Jim Backus) arrives late at the theater, but they’ve held the show for him since he is the star.  It’s a musical production of A Christmas Carol, and Magoo is Scrooge.  Once Dickens’s story begins, it’s the old tale we know so well, told relatively straight.  53 min. Mister Magoo’s shtick, of

Old humbug Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) learns the meaning of Christmas from three spirits, but this time, the three spirits are made of felt. The duality of this film is a bit much, even for a film with a talking frog. On the one hand, it is a very straight and rather dull re-telling of the

On Christmas eve, Jerry the mouse begins playing with the Christmas presents and goads Tom the cat into chasing him. 9 min. The third Tom and Jerry cartoon produced, The Night Before Christmas looks like all the other early Tom and Jerry shorts, and has pretty much the same structure as all of the later ones. The

Michael Baldwin (Paul Le Mat), working for an unreasonable boss (Mason Adams), is drilling for oil too close to Santa’s workshop.  The head elf (Paul Williams) takes Michael’s wife, Claudia (Jaclyn Smith), and their three kids to visit Mr. and Mrs. Claus (Art Carney and June Lockhart) so they can hear about the danger, but

It’s a bad, bad, bad Christmas for the Graingers.  Jack (Gary Basaraba) loses his job and their house, and Ginny (Mary Steenburgen) is stuck working double shifts and hates the holiday.  They have no hope.  Then things really go down hill.  A robbery, a car jacking, yet another job loss, and three deaths.  Luckily, Ginny

When Mickey Mouse (voice: James MacDonald) cuts down a Christmas tree, he fails to notice that the chipmunks Chip (voice: James MacDonald) and Dale (voice: Dessie Flynn) were living there.  When the tree is set up in the house, the chipmunks have lots of new things to play with, but Mickey’s dog, Pluto, is none-to-happy

Having made a deal with a demon, the owner of a toy company plans to have millions of possessed toys wake up on Christmas morning and slaughter children.  Only a doll repairman (Corey Feldman), his daughter, and four living puppets can stop her. Quick Review: So, Corey Feldman plays the aging intellectual father of a

Teen witch Marnie “Cromwell” Piper (Sara Paxton) heads off to college in Halloweentown, where evil forces plan to use her to enslave the friendly monsters.  But first, Marnie must deal with bitchy college girls and other things that reach new heights of banality. The fourth outing in the Halloweentown franchise (Halloweentown, Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge,