Remember how the Grinch hates Christmas because he’s antisocial and The Whos are good-hearted people whose pure love of Christmas changes his heart? What if, instead, The Grinch hates Christmas because he‘s mercilessly bullied by the consumerist, wasteful, selfish Whos, and only changes his mind on a fluke?! Fah-hoo-dooray!

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Gaslighting Your Family: The Movie! 

Also... surprise! Robin Williams does a bunch of voices. 

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We gather together / to ask The Lord’s blessing; / He chastens and hastens / His will to munch on some grindage.

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In The Witches, a cabal of magical women want to turn every child into a mouse, but there might also be a downside.

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The question is: did we love this movie or did we LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVV this movie?

Thank you to our Patrons for storming the castle and showing us twue wuv with their support, including Jacob Grimm, HizonerTheMayor, Jeremy Powlen, Joshua Nicholson, Karen Curd, Larissa Maestro, Dan McIntyre, Ghosts in the Burbs, Jonathon Day, Emily Bucago, Jason Lumpkin, Caroline Amberson, Jarrad Holbrook, Adam Reyna, Kathleen Campagna and Kristin Carter. 

Today, we look back on Willow. It’s pretty much Lord of the Rings, except there’s a baby instead of a ring, Aragorn is an asshole, Gollum is Kevin Pollack, and women actually get something to do.

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Gone in 60 Seconds, but with uglier cars.

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A movie about Nicolas Cage stealing a car he’s dubbed, Eleanor, presumably after first lady and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Classic tale: boy meets girl, boy follows girl to interdimensional fight tournament, boy meets some other girl, boy fights ice-shooting... ...Jesus Christ.

Thank you to our flawlessly victorious Patrons for GETTING OVER HERE with their support, including Jacob Grimm, Larissa Maestro, Dan McIntyre, Ghost in the Burbs, Joshua Nicholson, Kristin Carter, Jonathon Day, Karen Curd, Jeremy Powlen, Adam R, Jarrad Holbrook, Brandon Hardy and Kathleen Campagna.

Very little fighting. None of it on the streets. 

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God? If there is a God... Can you stop controlling the weather and tracking our every minor transgression to help an American League team win, not even the World Series, but the Pennant?

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This week we look at the rags-to-riches story of the grandson of a millionaire inheriting an MLB club, then using his clout to force himself in as their coach. In short: relatable.

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Ghost, Passenger 57, and Luigi team up to teach a small town the power of the color red.

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This week we look back on the movie that sounds like a kids’ show and gives Damon an excuse to break out his flawless Australian accent.

Sorry... Hees flewlees Esstreeleen eccent.

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You ever wondered what it’s like to be a bug? ... What’s that? .... Oh, you already saw Antz? ... Well, this one has Phyllis Diller in it.

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Real ants are ugly. With their multiple sets of eyes, alien-like mandibles, and a segmented body perched on spindly legs, they’re the stuff of nightmares. And yet, somehow, they have nothing on the ants of Antz.

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Phenomenon is a classic Flowers for Algernon story: except the mouse is Kyra Sedgwick and the flowers are a brain tumor.

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Voldemort vs. Vedder: whoever wins, we lose. In this episode we ponder the philosophical depths of Powder (1995). 

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This week, we look back on a movie that has the bravery to say, "F*ck it, let's blow up the Mir Space Station."

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Remember that meteor movie?!

No. The other one.

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Finally a movie that does what we all wish we could: push the most hated actor in a generation into a fiery cauldron of magma. SEE YOU IN HELL, TOM HANKS.

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Volcano (1997) features rough-hewn, weathered, craggy, stone-faced, stoic, hardened... ....siiiiigh...

You already got the joke, right? We're talking about Tommy Lee Jones.

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Have you ever watched a disaster movie and wished YOU were the intransigent grandmother in the boiling lake of acid? This week, Dante’s Peak!

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"IT'S A STIMPEED!"

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