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    12 best Christmas movies to binge during the Houston arctic freeze

    Craig Lindsey
    Dec 22, 2022 | 10:50 am
    Die Hard movie Bruce Willis

    Yes, this is a Christmas movie.

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    Few things say "Netflix and chill" like a literal arctic freeze. As Houston preps for at least two days of freezing temperatures, many are wisely staying indoors, camped out in front of the TV.

    With that in mind, we've rounded up our favorite holiday movies to steam and, natch, binge. Many our classics, some are kooky comedies, and one sparks a dispute if it's even a holiday movie at all.

    Stay warm and add these to your queue and watchlist as you wait out our below-30s temps. Here's our list of what to binge in Houston.

    Best Christmas movie (more than 50 years old)
    It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

    With help from his guardian angel, a suicidal-on-Christmas Jimmy Stewart finds out how messed up life would be if he wasn’t around. Honestly, you should know this movie backwards and forwards by now.

    Best Christmas movie (more than 25 years old)
    A Christmas Story (1983)

    You most likely know this movie backwards and forwards, since TBS usually shows this all the freakin’ time during the holidays. Nevertheless, the saga of little Ralphie Parker getting a BB gun for Christmas is a timeless standard. And we sure love Dad and his Major Award.

    Best adaption of A Christmas Carol — for kids
    The Muppet Christmas Carol (1993)

    No doubt your little ones will enjoy the sight of the Charles Dickens classic being recreated by Kermit, Gonzo, Miss Piggy and them, with Michael Caine killing it as the one-and-only Ebenezer Scrooge.

    Best adaption of A Christmas Carol — for adults
    Scrooged (1988)

    Bill Murray assumes the Scrooge role as a morally bankrupt TV exec who learns the true meaning of Christmas. Robert Mitchum, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard, Carol Kane and Bobcat Goldthwait are a few of the folk who appear in this all-star holiday jam.

    Best Christmas horror flick
    Black Christmas (1974)

    Forget about the two recent remakes. The original, directed by A Christmas Story’s Bob Clark and starring Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder as sorority girls being terrorized by a killer during the holidays, is still the bloody standard.

    Best foul-mouthed Christmas movie starring Billy Bob Thornton
    Bad Santa (2003)

    Although his 2005 black-comic caper The Ice Harvest comes a close second, nothing beats this R-rated laugh riot. Thornton plays a miserable, drunken, department-store Santa who tries to pull off a crime while instilling some holiday cheer in a little boy.

    Best Christmas movie from Shane Black
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

    A pre-Iron Man Robert Downey, Jr. and a pre-throat cancer Val Kilmer become a pair of unlikely sleuths in this sarcastic neo-noir, one of many flicks the writer/director (Lethal Weapon, The Nice Guys) has set during the holiday season.

    Best little-known Christmas movie
    Comfort & Joy (1984)

    Coming straight from Scotland, Local Hero director Bill Forsyth did an offbeat holiday flick where a DJ (Bill Paterson) gets over a breakup while reluctantly becoming part of a turf war between rival ice-cream vendors.

    Best Christmas movie for goths
    The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

    We’re sure all those kids who grew up wearing black and listening to The Cure rejoiced when producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick joined forces for a stop-motion animated flick where a Halloween-minded dude aims to take over Christmas.

    Best LGBT Christmas movie
    Tangerine (2015)

    Before he went on to make the Oscar-nominated The Florida Project, filmmaker Sean Baker did this unlikely holiday film about a transgender sex worker (transgender actress Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) who spends Christmas Eve looking for her cheating boyfriend/pimp.

    Best budding Christmas movie
    Friday After Next (2002)

    The final installment in Ice Cube’s hood-comedy trilogy has him and Mike Epps serving as strip-mall security guards ducking thugs, angry grandmothers, and a gift-jacking Santa. They still find time to get high though.

    Best Christmas movie that is indisputably a Christmas movie — The End
    Die Hard (1988)

    Bruce Willis, terrorists, explosions – blah, blah, blah. We know it came out during the summer. But all of it happened on Christmas Eve, so it’s a Christmas movie. We’re done talking about it—let the debates begin!

    Steven Devadanam contributed to this story.

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    Country singer Riley Green kicks off RodeoHouston with Toby Keith tribute

    Craig Hlavaty
    Mar 2, 2026 | 10:39 pm
    Riley Green RodeoHouston concert 2026
    Courtesy of Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
    Country singer Riley Green opened RodeoHouston on Monday, March 2.

    Looking like a member of the Dutton clan that grew tired of the ranching business and got really into Toby Keith and duck hunting, Riley Green opened the 2026 edition of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on Monday, March 2 in front of 59,250 attendees.

    The Alabama native and former college football quarterback — because of course he was — strikes a starched jeans balance between the tender, woo-pitchin’ of guys like Merle Haggard and George Jones and the deep, blinding romance of neo-traditionalists Tracy Lawrence and fellow 2026 RodeoHouston performer Tim McGraw, with a cowboy hat resting over his epic flow.

    Speaking of the Taylor Sheridan Television Universe (the TSTU), Green will soon be seen on the Sheridan-produced Yellowstone spin-off series Marshals, which premiered on CBS this past weekend, as a troubled former Navy SEAL.

    The ACM New Male Artist of the Year for 2020, the 37-year-old didn’t get around to playing RodeoHouston until just last year. When Green isn’t in a recording studio, performing onstage, starting a duck hunting brand, or conspicuously vacationing with his shirt off in a tropical climate near other young country stars, he retreats to his farm or deep into a far-flung swamp on a hunting excursion. That being said, if I ever start a country punk band, I’m going to call it Riley Green’s Forearms, because they seem to attract audiences as much as his music.

    Green’s show kicked off just after 9:20 pm with the man himself blowing into a duck call and launching into “Different ‘Round Here,” luckily out of earshot of any ducklings NRG Center potentially bedding down for the night.

    “Hell Of A Way To Go” came with a mid-song disclaimer that it was his grandfather who was a fan of Alabama football, lest any alumni in the crowd get things twisted, before switching it to up Texas.

    Green honored his mentor, Jamey Johnson, with a widescreen cover of the woolly singer-songwriter’s timeless “In Color”. Green’s earliest work was heavily influenced by Johnson, and the pair have become lasting friends.

    He and fellow country star Ella Langley have become inexorably linked since their 2024 chart-topping duet "You Look Like You Love Me” like a nu-country Conway and Loretta. Sadly, there was no convertible riding out onto the rodeo dirt with Langley riding shotgun to jump into the duet, but the female audience members filled in admirably in her stead. "There Was This Girl," his gold-certified debut single, followed it up.

    The late Toby Keith got some shine with a medley of his hits, including Green taking a turn at Keith’s 2002 anthem "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," which has earned something of a resurgence due to the USA hockey team singing it at the Winter Olympics.

    Green slowed things down and took a break on a stool for “Jesus Saves” and “Don’t Mind If I Do,” showing off his solo acoustic chops.

    The smoldering bedroom romp “Worst Way” got the biggest squeals of the night, with tall boys hoisted over cowboy hats, while his 2019 hit, "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" — the triple-platinum tribute to his late grandfathers, Lendon Bonds and Buford Green — brought the waterworks and a sea of smartphone flashlights through the stadium.

    Green made his way out of the building with his band’s take on Alabama’s “Dixieland Delight,” jumping into a Ford pickup and into a few thousand fans’ dreams.

    Setlist

    Different ‘Round Here
    Change My Mind
    Hell of a Way To Go
    In Color (Jamey Johnson cover)
    You Look Like You Love Me
    There Was This Girl
    Toby Keith Tribute Set


    • I Should’ve Been A Cowboy
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    Jesus Saves
    Don’t Mind If I Do
    Worst Way
    I Wish Grandpas Never Died
    Bury Me in Dixie / Dixieland Delight

    Riley Green RodeoHouston concert 2026

    Courtesy of Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

    Country singer Riley Green opened RodeoHouston on Monday, March 2.

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