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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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 7th: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Sticking with the Tim Burton theme, this seems like the most opportune time to bring The Nightmare Before Christmas into…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 6th: Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Connecting all these movies together is going to be a significant challenge but once I introduced Tim Burton into the…

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My Alternative Xmas Movie Advent Calendar – Dec. 5th: Batman Returns (1992)

Since both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are alums of the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman film franchise, this seems like…

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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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