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: 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. 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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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 4th: Deck the Halls (2006)

Sticking with the theme of “so dumb it’s good” comedies, since Arnold Schwarzenegger made his comedy breakthrough with Danny DeVito…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Day 3: Jingle All the Way (1996)

It’ll be tough to string together connections with all the movies on this list in a “Six Degress of Separation”…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 1st: Lethal Weapon (1987)

Christmas movies are big business. It’s actually quite astonishing to see just how many are dedicated to the holiday and…

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A Lesson in Class – Parasite

It’s not very often I walk into a theater without at least a generalized idea of what I’m about to…

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