My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 17th: Home Alone

Sticking with comedies, Chris Columbus and John Hughes make their second appearances on this list with the 90s classic, Home…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 16th: Mixed Nuts (1994)

Since comedies have been the name of the game, five years after her role in National Lampoon’s, Juliette Lewis was…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 14th: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

I was initially planning to save this one for the end but, since we’re covering 80s comedies that helped frame…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 14th: Trading Places (1983)

Well, we’re a little over halfway home. I wasn’t sure exactly where to go from Scrooged but figured I’d transition…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 13th: Scrooged (1988)

Sticking with light-hearted but rooted comedies, Richard Donner makes his second appearance on the list with Scrooged, a tongue-in-cheek version…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 12th: The Apartment (1960)

Since Eyes Wide Shut is a heavy-handed film about how the fantasy of how relationship infidelity is much different than…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 11th: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Since I intr theme of dysfunctional relationships, this is a perfect place to introduce Stanley Kubrick’s final film, the erotic,…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 10th: The Ref (1994)

I was initially going to stick with the horror theme but, instead, I’ll use this opportunity to bring in another…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 9th: Gremlins (1984)

Sticking with Yuletide horror-comedies, movies like Anna and the Apocalypse may not have been possible without 1984’s Gremlins and no…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 8th: Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

Moving on from the Tim Burton triple-header, Nightmare opened the door to a number of possibilities but we’re going to…

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