No matter where you look, Christmas movies are everywhere at this time of year. Between Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas,” Hallmark’s near-endless parade of holiday films, Disney+’s Hawkeye, and Netflix’s small army of holiday specials, aside from turning off your television and avoiding streaming services for the month of December, it’s almost possible not to watch at least one Christmas movie.
In a similar vein, baseball films dominated this past summer, thanks in large part to Major League Baseball’s first Field of Dreams Game, a nationally-televised event in which the Yankees played the perfect villain role for the country by losing in heartbreaking fashion.