YOU CAN KEEP THE SLEIGH # 1

 

You can keep the sleigh

And Rudolph and Prancer

There’s nothing Santa likes

More than a Lap Dancer

HE CAME HOME ON CHRISTMAS EVE

 

He came home on Christmas Eve

On his long-awaited Christmas leave

The soldier returned from the war

To find his beloved waiting at the door

It took seconds for passions to ignite

Which made it a Not-so-Silent Night

WHEN CHRISTMAS DAY WAS OVER # 2

When Christmas Day was over

Mrs Claus needed a release

It was a very stressful time

Spreading good will and peace

 

So as soon as Santa was rested

She always liked to have a bit

Being partial to the "North Pole"

Well, that's what Mrs C calls it

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – NOW YOU SEE ME (2013)

 

“Now You See Me” is a Mystery Crime Thriller, screenplay written by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt and Directed by Louis Leterrier.

 

The story begins when four magicians, J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), each answer a mysterious summons, and all arrive at an obscure address where they find hidden secrets.

One year later, they are big time stage illusionists, the Four Horsemen, and they climax their sell-out Las Vegas show by apparently robbing a Paris bank.

When it turns out that the bank actually had been robbed, F.B.I. Agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and Interpol Agent Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent) are assigned to the case to figure out how they did it.

However the great truth in this puzzle is that the closer you look, the less you see, and deeply embroiled in the mystery for very different reasons are Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine) and Agent Fuller (Michael J. Kelly).

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – HALLOWEEN (1978)

 

“Halloween” is a horror thriller, written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill and Directed by John Carpenter.

 

The movie begins on Halloween in 1963, when 6 year-old Michael Myers (Will Sandin) stabs his 15 year old sister Judith (Sandy Johnson) to death.

After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween, and no one seems be too concerned that Myers' is heading back to Haddonfield, and that he’ll likely be there on October 31st 1978, except his psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence).

But by the time the authorities of the town realize he’s heading for Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again, it may be too late for many of its inhabitants.

Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles and Charles Cyphers star in what was undoubtedly the first of the slasher film, which has influenced almost every slasher film made since.

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – CARRIE (1976)

 

“Carrie” is a horror classic, screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the Novel by Stephen King and Directed by Brian De Palma.

 

High school senior Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), is a shy, unworldly, and friendless teenage girl who has been sheltered from real life by her domineering, fanatically religious mother (Piper Laurie), while struggling in secret with the special telekinetic powers she possesses, a secret which she cannot divulge to her mother as she would consider it to be a gift from the devil.

The only adult authority figure who tries to help Carrie with her life is her Physical Education teacher, Miss Collins (Betty Buckley) but she is warned by the Principle not to get too involved.

After an incident of bullying by her classmates the culprits are banned from attending the Senior Prom and blame Carrie so they plan to exact their revenge on her by humiliating her in front of everyone at the Prom.

So will they succeed or will she unleash her telekinetic powers on them in a horrifying display of rage.

Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen and P.J. Soles play Carries classmates, good and bad, in what is possibly the best movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel.

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – PSYCHO (1960)

 

“Psycho” is a horror thriller, Screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on the Novel by Robert Bloch and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

The plot concerns a Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) who is dissatisfied with the way life has treated her, and unable legitimize her relationship with her married lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin), she embezzles $40,000 from one of her employer's client when she is entrusted with depositing the money at the bank.

Seeing it as an opportunity to start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards California, however fatigue sets in after getting caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel which is managed by a quiet young man called Norman (Anthony Perkins) who seems to be dominated by his mother, but is everything as it appears?

 

Vera Miles, Martin Balsam and John McIntire also shine in this classic Hitchcock masterpiece, a film not to be missed.