This December Hulumovies about vengeful ghosts, greedy capitalists and starving families are all the rage, and that’s just A Christmas song!
I couldn’t resist recommending Charles Dickens” the classic Christmas tale of despair and redemption, especially since the 2009 Disney version includes Jim Carrey playing everyone’s favorite horrible boss, Ebenezer Scrooge.
For those not in the holiday mood, Watch with us got you covered too. The 2025 crime thriller Neighborhood watch trade Christmas trees for corpses, while Love is strange explores what life is like for a newly married couple forced to live apart.
“Neighborhood Watch” (2025)
Simon McNally (Jack Quaid) is a young man with paranoid schizophrenia constantly haunted by visions of his dead and abusive father. When he thinks he sees a young woman kidnapped and taken in a van out of state, no one believes him because of her condition, except a retired security guard, Ed Deerman (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Ed thinks Simon saw something he shouldn’t have, but how can he convince them both that they’re right? And even if they succeed, they still have to find out who kidnapped the young woman and if she’s still alive.
Neighborhood watch it’s a crime thriller that works because it’s so deliberate and patient. It takes its time building its two main characters while spinning an absorbing mystery that feels like it was ripped from the headlines. Quaid and Morgan are fantastic as two lonely men who have been thrown around by the world at large, but find strength in their partnership. Together, they can do nothing, but they can do enough to solve a mystery and save someone’s life.
Neighborhood watch is streaming on Hulu.
‘Love is strange’ (2014)
After nearly 40 years together, longtime partners Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) decides to make it official and get married. Although their nuptials are supposed to bring them closer, married life pulls them even further apart as George is fired from his job at a Catholic school and they lose their expensive New York apartment, forcing them to live apart from friends and family. They’re still married, but can Ben and George love each other even if they can’t live together?
Love is strange is a bittersweet drama about the lives and loves of two baby boomers who expected a life of comfort and stability in their twilight years, but end up getting the exact opposite. It’s a problem most people can relate to in 2025, but the beauty Love is strange it’s how specific it feels yet still completely relatable. As a couple, Lithgow and Molina are an odd couple; you wouldn’t expect these two together, but in the end, you can’t imagine them with anyone else.
Love is strange is streaming on Hulu.
‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol’ (2009)
Charles DickensThe quintessential holiday classic got the big screen treatment again in 2009, only this time, Hollywood got it right. This is largely due to the casting of Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge, the three central ghosts and director of the film Robert ZemeckisThe use of then innovative computer animation to faithfully recreate a snowy and vaguely sinister Victorian London that only existed in Dickens’ vivid imagination.
You know the story: spendthrift old Scrooge is visited by ghosts from the past, present and future who force him to rethink his greedy ways and become a better person. But don’t watch this version of the story – watch it to see Carrey impressively embody the title character with all the intensity he brought. batman forever i The man in the moon. He’s a surprisingly faithful Ebenezer, who seems like he was born old and just got older and more miserable as time went on.
For almost as long as there have been movies, there have been Christmas movies to go along with them. But it wasn’t until the advent of television that watching Christmas movies became a true holiday tradition. This is true even in the age of streaming. To celebrate the holidays, the Watch With Us team has gathered this (…)
I wasn’t a fan of Zemeckis’ previous animated efforts, The Polar Express i Beowulfbut here he uses motion capture wisely to explore every corner of Dickens’s industrialized London. The result is a film that isn’t afraid to shed light on some of the darker aspects of the author’s holiday fable.