Every year people have the same debates online and around the dinner table during the holidays.. is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Is Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween or Christmas movie? etc. Of course, for a lot of people the debate is part of the fun, but I think there's something about these debates that often goes overlooked. The debates are an exploration of what a holiday means to a individual on a personal level. What counts as representative of a holiday. What does not. Holidays are fundamentally human rituals and what we think belongs to them changes as the times change. Certainly, each generation has a different idea of what counts as the quintessential holiday film. A movie that felt like a Christmas movie in 1985, might not in 2045. So I built this site as an ongoing research project to explore this concept. It's intended to be a living archive of how people relate to holidays through film and how that relationship changes over time. Of course, I wanted the site to have some utility outside of just research as well, so it acts a search engine for holiday movies and will hopefully become the go to site on the internet for settling debates and discovery new films to watch around the holidays.

IS IT A HOLIDAY MOVIE?

Settle the debate. No Thanksgiving dinner required.

Settle the debate. No Thanksgiving dinner required.