Tinseltown - The Holiday Movie Podcast

Brian and Justin look at that classic Gods vs Scrods travel comedy "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"! Yes, another John Hughes!

The Mayor and David look at P2, a two-hander horror movie that, to be fair, increases in quality sharply as it goes on.

The Mayor and Courtney review the straight to video cheapie "Buster and Chauncey's Silent Night", which is the final performance of Phil Hartman and does not distinguish itself in any other way.

The Mayor and Emily, with an adjacent Spencer, tackle the pointlessly Christmas-set "Go", one of an army of try-hardy Pulp Fiction riffs that came out of the mid-90s.

We are back with fresh episodes, and it's Brian and Robbie coming at you with The Preacher's Wife, starring Denzel Washington, a man who confounds even our legendary impersonation skills.

WARNING: This episode is rife with sassy language and boyish attitude, as we do one final Patreon dive to bring you our look at "George and the Christmas Star".

Here's another one from the archive as I get the end of the school year together and deal with some very disturbing swimming news. Please enjoy this Patreon episode where Emily and Spencer show me one of the (SOMEHOW) three Fairly Oddparents live-action movies.

From the ancient tomb of pre-COVID America comes the Mayor and Colleen finally talking about The Santa Clause 3. The series gets a massive budget cut, Tim Allen looks like crap, Barbara Stanwyck auditions for Home Alone, and we work out what Colleen's vibe is.

Flonk and the Mayor, overworked and sleep-deprived, bring you a REAL loopy episode recorded THIS VERY DAY. Join us as Kirk Cameron teaches us that maybe, just maybe, the true meaning of Christmas is Easter. And also money.

Lara joins Monsieur Le Maire to revisit Joyeux Noel. We thought we were emotionally ready for this by now. We were wrong.

In this episode, Anton and the Mayor cruelly enact a sustained attack on your personal childhood by noticing that An American Tail isn't maybe a particularly good movie? But we're counting it as a Hanukkah movie, despite the lack of basketball. Or candles.

On this, the weediest of all holidays, your two hosts from those weediest of states, Oregon and New Jersey, join forces to revisit that most surprising canon entry, and certainly ONE OF the weediest holiday comedies of all time. We haven't seen that Seth Rogen one, though, so who knows.

Hope last week wasn't too horny for you, because Colleen and I are looking at the first American sound version of A Christmas Carol, and it gets WEIRD.

The Mayor and Courtney review "Don't Open Till Christmas", a 1984 British murder mystery/slasher film that's not really interested in being either of those things. Or being coherent.

DAMN YOU, THE APRIL FOOL! Lol, just kidding, he's my best friend.

Emily and Brian look at "Better Watch Out", a movie that dares to ask "What if Home Alone, but the Macaulay Culkin was also the robbers, and it was the Macaulay Culkin from The Good Son, and instead of burglary, it was toxic masculinity?"

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry, because Victorians are going to TERRIBLE things to you. And that's just ONE of the troubling things in "Young Sherlock Holmes", which is set at Secret British Christmas. Robbie and Brian are here to take you through this delightful family mystery unaccountably directed by Barry Levinson.

The Mayor and David take a look at "Office Christmas Party", which is one of those movies where a bunch of actors you like show up to earn a low-effort paycheck.

Flonk and Brian look at "Three Days of the Condor", a movie in which the world's most handsome nerd dodges assassins in a manner that is endearingly incompetent and less endearingly... kidnappy? Also, it's kind of Christmas.

Look out, Mr. and Mrs. America! Evil godless commies are on the march, and they're here to steal YOUR White American Christmas! But fear not, there's one hero to stop them, with a patchy beard, a dull expression, and an armpit full of uzis! Lara and I take on INVASION: USA!

From the background of episode 50, a special guest spot in episode 116, and a bunch of Patreon episodes, Spencer Corona finally sits in the second chair to review "The Christmas Dragon", a movie we found by accident and decided to watch because of how much one random online reviewer HATED it.

Amanda and AAlgar from The Death of Podcasts return to talk about The Addams Family. Which, yes, isn't a Christmas movie, but I wanted to talk about how some people have personal yet inoperable definitions of "Christmas Movie", and here's the excuse.

Nate returns for another Sony Animation joint. Last time, it was Arthur Christmas! This time, it's... The Star. Can a funny animal animation make the nativity story more interesting than the last attempts we saw? IT WOULD BE HARD NOT TO! Let's find out.

Tim Montoya returns to us for a review of Rocky IV, a movie that takes place on Christmas for no particular reason, but on the other hand, it's not like we need any big excuse to talk about this movie. Because if we can change, and you can change...

Sarah Jenkins of Spirit Gum Theatre joins us to talk about the best highschool-set, zombie-themed musical you've ever seen! Probably. We haven't either of us seen the only other one we could think of.