Christmas Movies Actually

By: Collin Souter
  • Summary

  • You don’t have to love Christmas to love this podcast. Film critic Collin Souter and renowned sheep expert Kerry Finegan delve into every type of Christmas movie they can find. Classics, non-classics, horror, Hallmark, obscurities, foreign, shorts, TV specials, unnecessary sequels and remakes. Even films that you might not think of as traditional Christmas movies. The great, the awful and the unusual, all year round.
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Episodes
  • 119: Halloween Movies Actually - "ParaNorman" (feat. Christine Sellin)
    Oct 5 2024

    First, a quick explanation over what went wrong with the "Go" episode. Then, Kerry and Collin are joined by returning guest, Christine Sellin, to talk about Laika Animation Studios' amazing 2012 movie, "ParaNorman," a movie that accomplishes so much in just under 90 minutes and does so with style, wit, astonishment and braaaiiiinnnnssss!! What is tourism like in Salem, Massachusetts? Can a rioter ever find inner peace? Just how many horror movie references are hidden throughout this movie? All this, plus a stacked Blu-ray Gift Exchange, where they talk about Richard Pryor, Martin Scorsese, Kevin Costner's doomed epic and the greatest British gangster movie of all time.

    Blu-rays covered:

    Sony:

    "Richard Pryor - Live On The Sunset Strip" 4K (1982)

    "The China Syndrome" (1979)

    Paramount:

    "Bringing Out the Dead" 4K (1999)

    Warner Bros.

    "Horizon: An American Saga, Part 1"

    Warner Archive:

    "Black Belt Jones" (1974)

    "Three Little Words" (1950)

    "Words and Music" (1948)

    Shout:

    "Big Fan" (2009)

    Criterion:

    "Happiness" (1998)

    "The Long Good Friday" (1980)

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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • 118: "Go" (feat. Mike Schindler)
    Sep 20 2024

    Kerry and Collin celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Go" by talking to one of its biggest fans, film programmer Mike Schindler. The film has the late-'90s influences all over it: the "Pulp Fiction"-like structure, a hyper-active techno soundtrack and a cast of young actors who made their marks in TV shows like "Party Of Five" and "Dawson's Creek." Which of the film's three main stories is the best one? What is a rave like at Christmas time? Would the film's director, Doug Liman, been a choice to helm "Good Will Hunting"? All this, plus Kerry talks about three more films from "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die."

    Book films discussed:

    "North By Northwest" (1959)

    "The Man In Grey" (1943)

    "M*A*S*H" (1970)

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • 117: Meet Me In St. Louis (feat. Patrick Ripoll)
    Sep 5 2024

    Kerry and Collin are joined be frequest guest Patrick Ripoll (co-host of 96 Greers) to talk about one of the essential Judy Garland movies, the technicolor marvel "Meet Me In St. Louis," in which the song "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" made its debut and would eventually become a standard. Vincente Minnelli's timeless classic would also make for a great Halloween movie. What were the original lyrics to the famous Christmas song before Garland suggested a rewrite? What is the proper way to build a snowman that is not the usual three boulders on top of one another? And what is the proper way to wreck them? All this, plus a Blu-ray Gift Exchange that covers Albert Brooks, Mad Max, Elvis and a 90s teen comedy.

    Blu-ray Gift Exchange movies covered:

    Warner Bros:

    "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" (2024)

    Criterion:

    "Real Life" 4K (1979)

    "Mother" 4K (1996)

    Sony:

    "Can't Hardly Wait" 4K (1998)

    Warner Archive:

    "Harum Scarum" (1965)

    "Marie: A True Story" (1986)

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    1 hr and 40 mins

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