No wonder Disney’s Nutcracker is a flop – festive films thrive on despair

7:59am PST - December 8th, 2018    eddie murphy - The Guardian (AU)

The great seasonal movies deal in darkness and disaster as well as sleighbells in the snow… It’s the Christmas present that nobody wanted. Disney’s Nutcracker revamp, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, stars Keira Knightley and cost about $130m, making it on…