Tinseltown - The Holiday Movie Podcast

"Brian and Katie review 90s kids books" is back, with a look at the most entitled American Girl, Samantha, and her film debut, with eventually includes some limited amounts of Christmas.

Tim and I are joined by Brenda, a self confessed fan of hot goss and general trash, to review the latest comeback attempt of someone who has been well-represented in both of those categories. It's "Falling for Christmas"!

Brian and Lisa ring in the new year with "New Year's Eve", an overstuffed, undercooked mess of a - HOLY COW, IS THAT JENSEN?!

Better late than never, it's time for the state of the canon! And since said state is pretty lonely again, it's time for some analysis! Topics include why nothing got added this year, what can be done to avert this going forward, and Spider's Big Day Inside.

Rounding out Category Six month, Emily, Spencer, and Brian look into "The Wizard of Oz", a movie that is weirdly considered a Christmas movie by many people for no particular reason. Emily takes an anti-Toto stance, Spencer smells toast, and Brian tries DESPERATELY to talk about the book only when directly relevant.

Category six month rolls on with the flimsiest of excuses, as Flonk and I review Deadpool, a sassy comedy about a dude who's rude, crude, with attitude, and also with a weird amount of emotional honesty? Anyway, he says "Christmas" a bunch, so that's what's getting him in here today.

Brian's all right, Timmy's all right, they just seem a little weird after watching a nearly four hour movie. But do not take us for some conjurer of Cheap Trick, as Tim joins us for that finest of Category Six movies... Movies That Get Associated With Christmas Just Because of Their Release Date. It's LORD OF THE RINGS, BABY.

This week, it's a guest in theme month! Devlin joins us to discuss Ken Russell's The Who's Tommy, easily the weirdest movie we've ever done on this show.

A lengthy hiatus comes to a close, and with it comes Theme Month 2022, where we're looking at movies with the feeblest of Christmas connections! Sound is a little wonky on this one, but who could be upset when Lara and I are drooling over Christopher Plummer in "The Sound of Music", a really long, but really good, but really long movie!

Happy holiday season! As usual, it's time to announce our run of themed episodes, and Flonk is here to help with that, and also review Peacemaker a little, why not?

This week, on the Broken Arm Dispatch, I discuss a type of movie we won't be doing much of here, and do a commentary on "The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus", a short film from 1914 that dares to ask "What if Topper was a detective"?

But don't worry, my arms aren't broken again. Here's a status update leading into the holiday season, followed by a rambling walk through my top 25 movies of all time. (Three Christmas movies make the cut!)

STATUS UPDATE: Don't worry, the show's still on track! Screwy scheduling is STILL afflicting us, and our usual fall block was taken up this year by me being in a show, so the queue has run dry. But fear not, we have begun our next round, and the weekly uploads should resume shortly.  ALSO: From the vaults! Colleen and I review and revisit the franchise about America's favorite horny twerp, Andy Ha...

One from the Patreon this week, as I recover from being in Clue and prep the next round of recording! Enjoy me, Robbie, and Tim playing America's hottest game show, in which I challenge them to tell which Christmas Carol adaptations are real, and which I made up to trick them!

Emily and Brian take on The Weasel as we revisit "Son In Law", a Thanksgiving movie that is the first in the brief and inexplicable "Pauly Shore is a viable lead actor" era. Join us as we look at Tiffani Amber Thiessen: Farm Detective, analyze the practicality of roller blades as farm implements, get confused about the plot of a Tim Allen movie, and... grow... fatigued.

Confounded by my messy apartment, Courtney and I have to change our plans, and decide to stay topical by watching a Christmas movie about corgis. Well, about corgi. Well, about a pretty generic romance that happens near a corgi.

Justin and Brian hastily cancel their plans to watch some dumbass Krampus movie to get zeitgesty and check out "Soulmates: The Christmas Gift of Light", a mysterious screenshot of which captivated the internet this past weekend. It MIGHT be a cult!

As we prep to get back to normal episodes, we dip into the Patreon to give you Rocky V, which we totally didn't realize had Christmas in it when we started watching.

For the second guest month in a row, we have had an unexpected shift in the schedule which occurred the day before Flonk was coming over anyway, so it's time for another New and a Bit Alarming Crossover! This time, we're continuing our look into the five feature-length Looney Tunes movies. The Space Jam trilogy was bad, sure, but was it... DIRECT TO VIDEO BAD?

Brian's little sister Katie joins us to discuss The Baby-Sitters' Club in general and the Christmas episode of the 1990 HBO show specifically. Get ready for a LENGTHY character rundown, because she has 25 years of pent-up Baby-Sitter thoughts.

Maggie joins me to continue our Tim Curry train of thought onto a third podcast feed, as we examine A Christmas Carol, from 1997. Or 2002. Anyway, Tim Curry is in it.

Guest month rolls along, and it's time for another curate's egg, as TLo joins us for the first time to review Toys! It's a Robin Williams movie that shouldn't, a kids' movie that isn't, and a Christmas movie that won't! Still kinda good.

Sarah Jenkins rejoins us to look at The Green Knight, a more accurate, skillful, and handsome version of Sword of the Valiant.

Lara is IN PERSON and I'm rewarding her hospitality with "Bloody New Year", an incredibly meandering British horror film that takes place in July.

Hello, all! No new episode this week, because, as a shampoo commercial once told me, I'm worth it. But I still wanted to drop a quick note letting you know why, and also letting you know where else you can find me out there in audio land.