Merry Christmas 2024

 

Merry Christmas
to all my readers!

Above are the three cards I designed last year and at this link is this year’s Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz (right here) if you find yourself with any time to play.

Below are links to the majority of my Christmas themed blogs over the years, again if you find yourself with any downtime on your hands. I shall hopefully be back here tomorrow with a review of the new Doctor Who Christmas Special. Until then, have a good one.

 

Books & Comics  

Alvin And His Pals In Merry Christmas Dell Giant

Carfax House

A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Making Of A Tradition

Christmas And Other Horrors

Christmas At Fontaine’s

A Christmas Ghost Story

The Christmas Jigsaw Murders

The Christmas Murder Game

Crimson Snow

Dark Side Of Christmas, The 

A DC Universe Christmas

Ghosts Of Christmas Past

Giant SuperHero Holiday Grab Bag

Horror For Christmas

It’s A Wonderful Life Book, The 

Murder On The Christmas Express 

Mystery In White

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - DC Limited Collector’s Edition

The Santa Klaus Murder

The Stupidest Angel


Christmas Movies

The Advent Calendar

Anna And The Apocalypse

Batman Returns

Christmas Bloody Christmas

A Christmas Horror Story

Deathcember

Demonic Christmas Tree (aka The Killer Tree) 

Die Hard/Die Hard 2 Double Bill

Don’t Open ‘Til Christmas

Everly

The Green Knight

Gremlins Double Bill

It’s A Wonderful Knife

It’s A Wonderful Life

Krampus

Rare Exports - A Christmas Tale

Red One

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Santa Jaws

Scrooged

Silent Bite

Silent Night (2021) 

Silent Night (2023)

Sint

Tales From The Crypt

Violent Night  

 

 TV

Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special

Doctor Who Christmas Specials

Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol

Doctor Who - The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe

Doctor Who - The Snowmen

Doctor Who - The Time Of The Doctor

Doctor Who - Last Christmas

Doctor Who - The Husbands Of River Song

Doctor Who - The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

Doctor Who - Twice Upon A Time (2017)

The Church On Ruby Road

Joy To The World


Bonus

23 Favourite Childhood Toys

Greatest Christmas Music

John McCLane VS George Bailey Grudge Match

Merry Christmas 2022

 

 

Merry Christmas 2022

Season’s Greetings

Hello. Just a quick post to say thanks to all my readers for reading the blog this year. It’s very much appreciated and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. If you’re stuck in on your own this Christmas, you could probably do worse than amuse yourself with this year’s edition of my Cryptic Film Quiz, which you can access right here... and keep an eye on the comments section of that one because I’ll be adding a few extra clues there every now and again throughout the Christmas holidays. I’m also hoping to post one review a day this week, starting off with the last of this year’s Christmas reviews tomorrow and the day after.

And talking of Christmas reviews... below is an updated list of all the Christmas themed reviews since NUTS4R2 began, so if you are looking for some Christmas pans and picks for the season, just click on the titles to access the reviews. Again, thanks for reading have a good week, whatever you are doing.

Books & Comics  

A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Making Of A Tradition

Alvin And His Pals In Merry Christmas Dell Giant

Christmas At Fontaine’s

Crimson Snow

Dark Side Of Christmas, The 

A DC Universe Christmas

Ghosts Of Christmas Past

Giant SuperHero Holiday Grab Bag

Horror For Christmas

It’s A Wonderful Life Book, The

Mystery In White

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - DC Limited Collector’s Edition

The Santa Klaus Murder

The Stupidest Angel


Christmas Movies

The Advent Calendar

Anna And The Apocalypse

Batman Returns

Christmas Bloody Christmas

A Christmas Horror Story

Deathcember

Demonic Christmas Tree (aka The Killer Tree) 

Die Hard/Die Hard 2 Double Bill

Don’t Open ‘Til Christmas

Everly

The Green Knight

Gremlins Double Bill

It’s A Wonderful Life

Krampus

Rare Exports - A Christmas Tale

Santa Jaws

Scrooged

Silent Night (2021)

Sint

Tales From The Crypt

Violent Night 

Doctor Who Christmas Specials

Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol

Doctor Who - The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe

Doctor Who - The Snowmen

Doctor Who - The Time Of The Doctor

Doctor Who - Last Christmas

Doctor Who - The Husbands Of River Song

Doctor Who - The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

Doctor Who - Twice Upon A Time (2017)


Bonus

23 Favourite Childhood Toys

Greatest Christmas Music

John McCLane VS George Bailey Grudge Match

Season's Greetings 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas

Wishing all my readers the greetings of the season.

Pictured above are the three Christmas cards I designed for last year. So I designed the labels first, then shot the bottles and then turned them into Christmas cards. Three ‘Christmas Spirits’ - Rosebud, Cthulhu Navy Rum and Mos Eisley Comfort. Thought some of my readers might like to see them.

From Monday to Friday next week on the blog it’s one of my occasional themed weeks and I chose the Christmas holidays for these particular reviews because, if you are a certain age in the UK (that is, my age or a few years younger), you’ll remember that during school holidays (especially Christmas holidays), one of four of these five reviews used to play on television every morning.

So, yeah, next up on the blog, Larry ‘Buster’ Crabbe stars in my five reviews for Serial Week at NUTS4R2, coming next week to a blog theatre near you!

And if you find yourself bored during this year's Covid Distancing Christmas, you could have a go at this year’s Cryptic Film Quiz by clicking here.

Once again, Merry Christmas to all my readers and thanks so much for coming here to read. It’s much appreciated.

NUTS4R2

Merry Christmas 2016

 
Season's Greetings

Hi there.

Well it’s that time of year when I get to thank you all for reading and to wish you a Merry Christmas.

It’s actually been a pretty good year for me on many fronts... my personal life is something I’m much happier with and, for the first time in a few decades, work has been pretty good for the last few months too. So I have a lot to be thankful for this year.

This is the bit where I tell you what the future has in store for NUTS4R2 and, it has to be said, I always get it completely wrong.

Well I can, at least, safely predict the very near future on this blog. In a day or two my review of the new Doctor Who Christmas Special should be published here... unless something absolutely awful happens to me when I should be watching it. This has been a full year without the regular programme on air but there will be a new series starting next year (sometime in April is my best guess) and we have had the spin off sister show, Class, to keep us going (yeah, there will be a review of the first, hopefully not the last, series of that going up soon).

I also have to get the inevitable Best Movies of 2016 list up there soonest. Just got one more to watch and one other to rewatch before that list is fully finalised but I hope to have it up by New Years Eve. As usual, my Best Soundtracks end of year list will not happen until the second week or so of January... I have to wait until after my birthday before I can draw a conclusive picture of those as stand alone listens.

As for the rest of the year on this blog... well, I shall try and predict it but I usually get it wrong...

Hoping to get a lot of franchises one here... so some more Zatoichi movies, some more Sleepy Eyes of Death movies, finishing off The Saint movies, finishing off the Charlie Chan movies, a possible rewatch for the Lone Wolf and Cub and Lady Snowblood movies... and likewise for the Indiana Jones, A L I E N, Batman, The Falcon, Stray Cat Rock, Superman and Beverly Hills Cop films. Plus... more gialli, more horror, more exploitation, some blaxploitation and some very strange superhero movies. Plus... I should probably get around to watching films like James Batman (where James Bond and Batman team up... no, I’m not making this up), Brazilian Star Wars and Wolf Devil Woman. Many more titles like these folks... I just have to get the time to catch up on this stuff.

And, of course, the inevitable slew of new cinema releases. People have been saying that 2016 has been an incredibly bad year for film. I’m not so sure... I feel like a lot of the DVDs and Blu Rays I wanted to explore had to be overlooked this year because there were so many interesting releases at the cinema. Will 2017 be the same? We shall all have to wait and see, I guess.

One thing’s for sure though... I’m very grateful for each and every one of you who comes on here to read my words once in a while, even if it’s only very occasionally. So thanks so much for your time and support and have a very Merry Christmas from me. And, you know... a very Happy New Year.