all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #13
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.
Rare Exports A Christmas Tale
Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas
Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids!
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).
Big Game movie review: small potatoes
A kid rescues the President. It sounds like a joke movie The Onion might invent to satirize Hollywood preposterousness, but I swear to god, it’s real.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale movie review
You simply need to see this to believe that anyone would conceive of such an outlandishly demented Christmas fantasy. In playing with the creepy roots of the story of Santa, Rare Exports finds the grim awfulness in the supposedly pleasant fantasy…
trailer break: ‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’
Oh man, I hope the film is as hilarious as the trailer. Holding Santa for ransom? Who’s gonna pay: the UN? All the children of the world? Is Jack Skellington behind this?
