Transforming movies onto the stage seems like a sure-fire way of guaranteeing the success of a theatrical production. That’s why it seemed the most natural thing to adapt the 2003 film comedy “Elf,” starring Will Ferrell, into a Broadway show in 2010. The plot of the feel-good film about Buddy, a human who has been…

A fun-loving principal has been bringing smiles to his students’ faces by posing as an “elf on the shelf” ahead of Christmas, appearing in various nooks and crannies, and inspiring wonder and curiosity around the school. Approaching his seventh year as principal at John Quincy Adams Primary School in Deer Park, New Jersey, Christopher Molinelli,…

PG | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7 November 2003 (USA) Unlike the films of the 1940s and ’50s, most of the more modern Hollywood Christmas movies tend to have a pervading sense of cynicism and are sometimes even mean-spirited, the opposite of what the venerated holiday is all about. However, a few…