Tinseltown - The Holiday Movie Podcast

Turns out we're not quite done with Lifetime yet, as Maggie and Aal of "Kids Love Batman" join us to kick off guest month with a movie about a big city [PODCASTER] who goes to her small hometown because of [IMPLIED POST APOCALYPTIC DEVASTATION] and falls in love with a handsome [TOW TRUCK DRIVER/LIGHT HANGER/MUSICIAN/FIREFIGHTER/GLASSBLOWER].

At long last, it's time to discuss the current state of the new holiday canon! And we're doing it - to borrow a term from The Sarcastic Voyage - ClusterFlonk style! The mayor has called each of the nine cohosts to give them a chance to passionately defend or savagely attack a movie on the canon, as we lead up to determining which one gets Gold Status... and which FOUR get cut!

Flonk closes out Sullivanfest 2020 and actual 2020 with "12 Gifts of Christmas", in which a big city [LANDSCAPE PAINTER] gets a job as a personal shopper because [LANDSCAPE PAINTING ISN'T REALLY A FULL TIME JOB], and falls for a handsome [DEPARTMENT STORE MANNEQUIN WHO WAS BROUGHT TO LIFE BY A WITCH'S KISS].

Peter Sullivan graces Brian and Colleen with his other genre: MYSTERY! Thrill to "A Christmas Mystery", wherein a big city [WOMAN] goes to a small town because of [MYSTERY] and falls in love with a [MAN].

Peter Sullivan month rolls right along, as this week, Brian and Lara head back home to New York (kind of) for Sharing Christmas! A big city [PROPERTY DEVELOPER] remains in the big city because of [PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT] and falls in love with a [YEAR ROUND CHRISTMAS STORE MANAGER]. (Bonus: Baby Lara meets a hitman)

This week, Brian and Courtney continue Peter Sullivan Month with Hallmark's highest rated Christmas movie ever! A big city [DOCTOR] travels to a small town because of [RESUME PADDING] and falls in love with a [HANDYMAN WITH A SECRET].

Peter Sullivan Month begins! This week, Brian and Emily look at one of his Lifetime joints, My Christmas Inn. A big city [AD EXEC] travels to a small town because of [DEAD AUNT] and falls in love with a [LAWYER/SLEIGHMAKER].

No new episode this week, as we prep Theme Month 2020, announced here by myself and Lara, complete with some surprise twists, aka, I based it all around one director and accidentally included a movie he didn't direct. 

Brian and Courtney review the long-awaited "Santa With Muscles", a Hulk Hogan kiddie flick with a surprisingly overqualified supporting cast of "that guy" actors and kids who will be famous some day.

Okay, this one's a bit weird, but you can blame election week. Join the Mayor and Emily as they examine "Last Christmas" a little movie with a big heart and a rather tenuous concept.

FINALLY the randomizer gives us some Christmas, even if it is mostly over by Act 1. But who can be mad when you've someone as charming as Jimmy Durante taking you along? Anton joins us for "The Great Rupert"!

YET AGAIN the randomizer taunts us with the merest hints of Christmas, this time with the mediocre slasher film "ATM", whose claim to being a Christmas movie seems to be that it takes place in view of a tree lot.

Justin has a special Halloween message for everyone, so we've got a special main feed bonus episode to deliver it!

CHRISTMAS IS BACK! Kind of! How fitting that for their first episode back in the prime universe, Colleen and the Mayor review "Meet Me In St. Louis", a movie that takes its sweet [jingle] time in getting to the Christmas part everyone knows.

Well, the original plan was to release this one after the outbreak was over, but…*Looks forlornly out window*   Anyway, this was Lara's original first episode as a full-time Tinseltownie, and it's a DOOZY. 

In this SUPER SIZED episode from our final alternate universe, Brian and Sarah review the extremely super sized movie The 10 Commandments, a weirdly horny biblical epic.

As the Mayor tries to sort out his dimensional drama, have another from the Patreon vaults, as Anton helps cover a classic film of his people, the Soviet-era winter fantasy "Jack Frost".

As the Mayor tries to sort out his dimensional drama, have another from the Patreon vaults, as Anton helps cover a classic film of his people, the Soviet-era winter fantasy "Jack Frost".

In the Independence Day universe, Anton and the mayor review the holiday's titular movie, Independence Day. It's an incredibly long film with ten thousand characters, most of whom are completely inexplicable.

This week, in the Halloween universe, Brian and Justin review "Trick 'r Treat", which is just... It's just so ding-dang good, y'all.

This week, the Brian and Colleen of the Easter universe look at "The Robe", a rather typical overstuffed and undercooked Bible epic that takes the weird tactic of being mostly about someone who's a few blocks away from whatever's happening in the Bible.

Whatever rumors you may hear, the Mayor is NOT uploading a years-old Patreon episode because the stress of starting the school year right now wrecked his schedule up. Certainly not. The actual reason is time travel. Or quantum.

This week takes us to the pagan holidays universe, where Brian and Courtney look at Midsommar, a movie about what happens when you go with a hippie to a second location.

Back in the Labor Day universe now, Brian and Emily take an in-depth look at Newsies, the number one source for millennial childhood crushes by volume.

This week, our transmission comes from the Mardi Gras universe, which, as far as transmissions you can get from Mardi Gras goes, is fairly mild. Robbie and Brian of that world bring you: "The Princess and the Frog"!