Moonies Never Say Die Hard!

Remember "Just One of the Guys"? Remember "Mrs. Doubtfire"? Remember your high school class ON "Twelfth Night"? Keep all those memories close and fond to your heart because "My Secret Santa" is about to try and steal the plot points from them all. In fact, we got so confused we'd routinely forget the name of this movie, constantly but not purposely referring to...

From 2007 to 2009 Harlequin Books published FORTY NASCAR-sanctioned romance novels with such titles as "Checkered Past" (Get it?) and "Speed Dating" (GET IT?). Now Hallmark has one-upped the sports cross-marketing machine with not only a series of NFL-licensed "Holiday Touchdown" Christmas movies but a veritable MCU-style shared universe of characters—including an ever-pres...

Sometimes you come across a modern streaming Christmas movie that just does it better than most. Yes, it has all the tropes. Yes, you know what will happen. And yet somehow with multiple Chekov guns, SEVERAL sidekicks, and a woefully under-budgeted CGI bunny, this week's holiday film—"Champagne Problems"—proved a complete joy to watch.  HOWEVER, "Champagne Problems" was not our...

Have you ever wondered what “Fight Club” would be like as a Hallmark Christmas movie? So did we for about two acts of "A Very Merry Ex-Mas." But what this film lacks in Tyler Durden it more than makes up for in Chet. In fact, whenever Chet isn’t on screen all the other characters should be saying “Where’s Chet?” So come for a family’s one last Christmas together amid narratively-mandated s...

Male striptease—is there anything it can't make better? From helping unemployed steelworkers in "The Full Monty" make some crucial money and save themselves to helping a family in this week's "Kevin and Ces Annual Holiday Movie Quadruple Feature Podcast" feature make some crucial money and save their performance venue, male stripping has been the backbone of our economy and...

It's a Pentatonix Christmas movie as Pentatonix plays Pentatonix singing Pentatonix Christmas songs while helping two Pentatonix fans find true Pentatonix love at a Pentatonix show during this most cherished Pentatonix holiday season in a charming film about the importance of securing concert tickets as quickly as possible.

Did you ever watch Frosty, the Grinch or Heat Miser and think "I'd do him"? Well, then Netflix—and the Kevin and Ces Annual Holiday Movie Quadruple Feature Podcast—bring you the perfect tepid mug of cocoa with this year's streaming smash, "Hot Frosty." Yes, when a young widow places a used scarf on a six-pack snowman, the sexy Faulknerian man-child of her dreams comes to li...

It's been a hell of a season two—David's brother, Maddie's parents, Agnes almost certainly still keeping a baby that doesn't belong to her. Casinos in Buenos Aires, flashbacks to the 1940s, trips to the, um, mall. Whoopi Goldberg! Orson Welles! Cousin Larry from "Perfect Strangers"! Magical leprechauns, massive Rolodexes, multiple fourth-wall breaks. Funerals, faked funeral...

When an escort’s mob-connected client mumbles upcoming hits in his sleep, she tells David, who in turn uses the intel to catch the killers. Or stop them before they commit the crime, which is sort of like the first draft of “Minority Report” minus eye-replacement surgery. Soon David is the toast of the town, beloved by the police, the mayor, and the entire city of LA. In fact, the only person who...

David is on the lam! When an elderly man frames David for his murder (to avoid his death being labeled a suicide and invalidate his life insurance because, uh, comedy), David does what every fugitive from the law would do if they were nine-years-old. He hides at his friend’s house. Then he hides at his friend’s place of work. Then he probably hides in a toy store or wherever they sell candy. Near...

As the great John Mayer said, “Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters <mumble> <mumble>.” Maddie learns this first hand as she is faced with the question of whether her father and her mother’s husband are the same person. Corporeally? The answer is yes. More morally? That answer is no. Poppa Hayes is having an affair. The mother suspects it. Maddie denies it. And David—in a surpr...

Revenge is a dish best served cold—and lifeless—when a magician swears to kill his wife from beyond the grave, which is either a remarkable feat or stunning case of poor time management. But when the magician dies mid-act, his wife hires Maddie and David to watch over his corpse until it’s cremated, to ensure he can’t fulfill his promise. Does the body escape? Well, let’s just say the Blue Moon Ag...

Weary of a life of jelly donuts and Vanna White, Agnes longs for some excitement, some romance, and maybe, just maybe, a cruller instead. Little does she know Maddie's ticket to the Private Investigators' Ball (a Detective Prom minus the DJ playing "Forever Young") gives her all that and more as she is literally swept off her feet in a classic Hitchcock tale of mistaken identity, c...

A client—who boasts he has an American Express card, has read Playboy, and has told all the right lies to woo women—asks the Blue Moon Detective Agency to find him the perfect wife, thereby hiring the two most ill-equipped people in matters of relationships to secure him romantic bliss. Within moments Maddie and David are disagreeing on what a "perfect" partner means, each choosing someone...

It's the holidays when Agnes gets the Christmas miracle of someone else's baby left under her tree. Well, hastily dropped in her clothes hamper. It's also a first draft of "Home Alone" when Maddie, David, and Agnes fight off criminals with toys. And it's also a season for good cheer with the arrival of Detective John Munch! Well, Richard Belzer, playing an entirely differen...

Ever wanted to be your own boss? How about not be a boss at all? Both paths are taken when Maddie sells the Blue Moon Detective Agency and David starts his own investigation service. But will the former duo patch up their differences in time to find a Rolodex—A DOUBLE Rolodex—containing the only record of high-level professional and personal contacts belonging to the boss of "Cousin Larry"...

It's murder on the art studio floor when a mysterious painting of Maddie—complete with two hideous vases—results in the death of two brothers, the disappearance of the Blue Moon Detective Agency's slim profit margin, and the conclusion that if an artwork is about you then you can legally take it home, free of charge, no matter its crucial role in an ongoing police investigation. So pull up...

It's not "Singin' in the Rain" but it's also not the movie version of "Cats." It's Jennifer Lopez's magical, musical magnum opus film fantasia "This is Me...Now" and we're here to hold your hand and heart through it all. Fear not—"This is Me...Now" has everything you could ever want in a rhythmic, self-reflecting, romantic experience: Steampu...

Had a lovely Valentine's Day? Well forget it all! Because according to this week's "Moonlighting" episode it's St. Patrick's Day when a leprechaun (pause for a moment to allow for your Lucky Charms joke) asks Maddie and David to protect her from people after her pot of gold (pause for a moment to allow for you to ask "No, seriously. What's this week's episode ab...

It's a sunny day for film noir in LA when David's ex—and "China Beach" star—Dana Delany comes waltzing into the Blue Moon Agency. David's heart goes pitter-patter but his ex has murder on her mind. And she's about to get away with it, too, thanks to the laziest police detective in investigative history. Will Maddie be able to put two and two together even when the detective...

Can David Addison act like an adult for one whole week? How about the rest of the afternoon? How about until the end of this sentence? When Maddie bets he can't, David's maturity keeps limbo-ing lower now until he mistakes being a grown-up with being eternally glum (which really makes up only 80% of aging). But will it be enough for Maddie and David to solve a kidnapping that turns into an...

Orson Welles introduces a fun film noir ("fun noir"?) episode of double-crossing and double-telling as Maddie and David find themselves in black & white (and singing "Blue Moon") reliving the infamous 1940s "Florida Cove Jazz Club Murder." Meanwhile, back in full-color and complete shock, podcast hosts Kevin and Ces face their own possible tale of foul play as they susp...

How far would you go for revenge? For Maddie she's willing to gamble it all when she learns her crooked ex-accountant used the fortune he stole from her to open a casino in Buenos Aires. That's because she needs to look the man straight in the eyes and tell him off. David, however, needs Maddie to see this might only hurt—and cost—her so much more. But together they try to take the casino...

No, you're not seeing double. You're seeing quadruple! It's slapstick film noir in "Moonlighting" as a real-life case of acid scarring becomes a really curious episode of excessive carpet shampooing. Double-crossing, false identities, silhouetted figures, fooled private eyes, 1940s fashion, and 1980s fight clubs all come together to make this the most bewildering case of Sam Sp...

David's brother (dear God, there's another Addison) just rolled into town talking big, spending big, and dealing with one small problem that the $100,000 that fell into his lap (or, inexplicably, his car engine) belongs to a murderous drug dealer who is really bad at murdering but really fortunate that the police seemed to have given up pursuing him. Will David reconcile with his brother?...