Archive - Retro Movie Reviews

Home Alone (1990)

Retro Review #29: Smart kid vs. dumb criminals at Christmastime equals holiday slapstick success.

8 hrs ago • Rick Retro

What’s That in the Fridge?!

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #5: 2025 Christmas Leftovers—A mixed bag, happening now!

Jan 1 • Rick Retro

December 2025

Moving On to a New Year

Rick Retro’s Realm, The Realm Report #10: Looking back and looking forward.

Dec 31, 2025 • Rick Retro

Wrapping Up the 2025 Christmas Tour

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – Our last three Substack debuts in our tour have been posted. Christmas leftovers are up next.

Dec 27, 2025 • Rick Retro

Of Scissors, Muppets and Nightmares

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – Christmas films in the early 1990s give us three Pure Dark Whimsy classics.

Dec 22, 2025 • Rick Retro

12 More Days of Christmas!

Rick Retro’s Realm, The Realm Report #9: Nothing to do with a partridge in a pear tree, just a scheduling issue.

Dec 18, 2025 • Rick Retro

The Stars Are Out for Christmas

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – Trending in the late 1980s: Christmas box-office hits driven by big stars.

Dec 18, 2025 • Rick Retro

A Christmas Story of Gremlins Trading Places

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – The early 1980s: cynicism and nostalgia with extra helpings of Dark Whimsy.

Dec 14, 2025 • Rick Retro

A Very Special Christmas, Part 2

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – The second tier of Christmas specials finishes off the 1960s, taking us to 1970.

Dec 12, 2025 • Rick Retro

A Very Special Christmas, Part 1

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – The advent of the Christmas special in the 1960s produces three classics.

Dec 10, 2025 • Rick Retro

Christmas Is Trending!

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – Are you noticing the trends in these Christmas films from the 1940s and 1950s?

Dec 9, 2025 • Rick Retro

Christmas in Bedford Falls

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – First the rarely read short story, then the ubiquitous classic film.

Dec 7, 2025 • Rick Retro

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