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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyous Festivus, Cheerful Winterfair, and all that.
Month: December 2023
daily stream: welcome to the new year’s revolution…
2014’s Snowpiercer is on Hulu and Netflix in the US, Lionsgate+ and Mubi in the UK (and other services too).
daily stream: no place like home for the apocalypse
2021’s Silent Night is on AMC+ in the US, Prime in the UK, and other services as well.
daily stream: cheerfully bonkers B-movie Christmas melodrama
1940’s Beyond Christmas (aka Beyond Tomorrow) is in the public domain, and streaming at Internet Archive and on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere too.
daily stream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? I try to explain…
2000’s Wonder Boys is on Paramount+ in the US (and other services, too), and exclusively on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
daily stream: you’d better watch out — no, *really*…
2010’s Rare Exports is on Kanopy in the US, Mubi in the UK (and lots of other services, too).
daily stream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy
1987’s Babette’s Feast is on Max in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK, and on other services, too.
loaded question: how could the McAllisters afford that house and that Paris trip in ‘Home Alone’? (wrong answers only)
I mean, obviously, Kevin’s dad is either in finance or in the mafia, but those are boring answers to the question. What are the bonkers possibilities?
daily stream: the political power and religious delusion of the US–Israel relationship
2021’s ’Til Kingdom Come is on Prime in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK.
daily stream: the Israeli men in charge of policing Palestine
2013’s The Gatekeepers is on Prime and Apple TV in the US; not streaming in the UK.
