Christmas Movies Actually
142: The Baltimorons (feat. Jay Duplass, Michael Strassner and Liz Larsen)
The director and stars of the wonderful comedy "The Baltimorons" (currently/soon in theaters) join the show briefly to discuss the film's evolution and its purpose as a Christmas movie.
141: The Sure Thing / Better off dead (1985)
Kerry and Collin didn't plan on 2025 being a John Cusack-a-thon, but that's what ended up happening. After talking about "Serendipity" back in February and with "The Ice Harvest" coming up in December, the hosts decided to do a Cusack double-header of Christmas-adjacent films that came out 40 years ago.
140: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (feat. Pat McDonald)
Film critic Pat McDonald join Collin and Kerry to break down "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny," one of the absolute weirdest holiday concoctions of all time with a just-barely-stitched-together film from 1972.
139: The Love Boat - The Christmas Cruise (feat. Jim Peebles)
Kerry and Collin are joined by their good friend Jim Peebles, who also guested on the "A Very Brady Christmas" episode.
138. Invasion U.S.A. (1985) (feat. Erik Childress)
Kerry and Collin are joined by frequent guest, Erik Childress (host of Movie Madness) to talk about one of the dumbest films to come out of 1985, from Cannon Studios, one of the most notorious movie studios of its era.
137: Brazil - 40th Anniversary (feat. Jeff Broitman)
Kerry and Collin are joined by Jeff Broitman (formerly of the podcast Fresh Perspective) to talk about one of Collin's all-time favorite films, Terry Gilliam's 1985 masterpiece "Brazil."
136: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
Based on the encouragement of a GQ article from 2016, Kerry and Collin took a look back at “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to see if the writer of said article had been onto something. That led them to go back and rewatch all of the “Bridget Jones” movies including the latest, which just came out on blu-ray.
135: Deck The Halls (2006)
Kerry and Collin plowed through this comedy starring Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito as two feuding neighbors at Christmastime. The experience of watching the film caused one of them to ponder, "why are we doing this podcast?"
134: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Kerry and Collin, while trying desperately to recall facts about part 2, finally round out the Tim Allen "Santa Clause" trilogy with should be the best of the bunch, considering the casting of Martin Short.
133: The Holly and the Ivy (1952) (feat. Nell Minow)
A listener requested this title quite some time ago and it finally happened! Film critic Nell Minow joins Kerry and Collin to talk about this relatively obscure, but wonderful movie that might just be the first ever in the sub-genre of holiday films where the family returns home for the holiday festivities and slowly start airing their grievances and secrets.