Review: Is Christmas the season of Nintendo or the opiate of the masses? Two new movies chime in
What makes a great Christmas movie? Something devotional, something heartwarming, something "Die Hard"-y with lots of violence and death? Two new entries in the holiday derby shoot their shots at the title (no extreme violence, though) and one turns out to be a contender. Is it the new Santa Claus myth ... or the tale of '80s kids trying to score a video game system?
The fascinatingly muddled "A Boy Called Christmas" has many of the traditional ingredients: "Wonder of the season" score, storybook sets, elder stateswoman narrator (Maggie Smith), nice family, B to B+ visual effects. Its messages are as mixed as
