curated cinema: “we cannot break bread with you…”
1993’s Addams Family Values is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic, and Netflix in the UK.
Macy’s
One for the Money (trailer)
Katherine Heigl may not have a clue, but she doesn’t have a clue! Ain’t female incompetence adorable?
retro ad: 1980s Met Life Charlie Brown Thanksgiving commercial
I presume that during the football game that followed dinner at Linus’s house, Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown, causing him to hilariously yet bittersweetly take an enormous flop on his back.
Mark Wahlberg admits ‘The Happening’ was terrible; Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood is terrible; a female Old Spice Man spoof; more: leftover links
Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…
Miracle on 34th Street movie review: the spirit of Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street is, as all of us who love this classic film know, the story of how Macy’s department store in New York City not only found the real Santa Claus but hired him to, well, play Santa Claus.
