WEBVTT - The Best Thanksgiving Movies 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.280 Warning. Today's episode canday spoilers for lots of Thanksgiving movies, 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:26.880 so listen, just be warned. Hello, my name is Jas 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.880 Sconcepsio and I'm Wedsday Night and welcome back to Xtamage 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:33.840 of the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.600 Jones movies, comics and pop culture. Company over by our podcasts. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.400 We're bringing three episodes a week, every New Day, Thursday, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.920 every episode every Wednesday, that's Tuesday, Wednesday extra episode, and 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.960 Thursday three episodes. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:51.160 Awake in big boom boom, boom boom. In today's episode, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:58.440 we are defining gravity. We're not covering Wicked. Actually we're 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:59.640 covering Thanksgiving movies. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.560 Yeah, break me down. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.760 Can you tell what we have been listening to? The 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.080 Wicked soundtrack? We're not covering it, but it is coming 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.640 out for this Thanksgiving holiday period. So if you want 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.360 to go see it, go see it. If you want 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.000 to hear us cover it in a discord, I guess 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.000 leave a message. I'd be surprised but interested. In today's episode, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.720 we are going to talk about the aforementioned Thanksgiving movies, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.960 and we're going to start by asking what is a 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.520 Thanksgiving movie? Does it need to be about Thanksgiving? When 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.680 does it need to be set? What does it need 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.880 to be about? Is it just about vibes? Is it 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.160 about content? Then we're going to go through each genre 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.040 to create the ultimate Thanksgiving movie watch list, And finally 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.280 we're going to do a rapid fire pick of our 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.319 favorite Thanksgiving TV episodes. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:55.120 But first, previously on Okay Thanksgiving movies? What is a 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.760 Thanksgiving movie? What constitutes a Thanksgiving movie? You've heard the 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:04.360 debate is die Christmas movie? I say yes? So with 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.400 the same kind of thing in mind, what constitutes a 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.239 Thanksgiving movie? Joining us today, super producer Joel will be 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.560 shared with lots of thoughts, lots of thoughts about movies, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.400 films in general, about the great art form of the 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:25.720 cinema and how that great human art form intersects with 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:32.880 the uniquely American holiday of Thanksgiving. So first the debate, 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.079 what makes a Thanksgiving movie? Tell me one, I put 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:42.320 it to the group, how central to the plot must 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:43.040 Thanksgiving be? 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.000 I don't think it needs to be said. I don't 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.600 think it needs to be central forefront. I don't think it. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.720 Let's say quick quote, Let's take a quick quote, and 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.680 then let's and then we'll have people give their give 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.520 their opinions. Who thinks it doesn't need to be central 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.880 raise their hand, Okay, that's me and Rosie. So Joelle, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.560 since you are it must be central person, give us 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.680 your give us your take. And what does central mean? 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.959 So to me, central to the plot means it can't 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.679 just appear in the movie. You can't be like a 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.560 Thanksgiving scene or a mention of It must revolve around 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.320 the idea of Thanksgiving, which to me can mean a 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.480 lot of things. I don't buy into the American law 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.359 of pilgrims fed indigenous people because that's stupid. I do 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:37.000 love family gathering over food that makes them almost unconscious. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:42.880 I do love football and the sports element of it. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.760 I love the competition that is cooking the grandest meal 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.800 of the year. Like there's a lot of thematic elements 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.280 of Thanksgiving that to me are pretty vital. I love 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.640 Thanksgiving as just a gathering holiday. And I think that 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.560 if you only have about a week of Thanksgiving right, like, 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.600 if you think about it, Christmas is about months long 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.600 in America, not other people do it. We get started 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.320 very early. Our shops change, the music changes, we get 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.800 the fakes know everywhere, like we love Christmas, it's about 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.520 two months. Halloween is about a month long. Because you're 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.160 picking your costume, you're talking about it, You've got thirty 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.520 one days of Halloween, you're watching your movies. You could 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.520 do a thirteen days of Halloween if you wanted to. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.320 There's some variety depending on how you choose to celebrate. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.720 But that's what hallng. You have Thanksgiving, you good a week, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.400 one week to prepare your meals, so one week to 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.920 watch your movies, and then it's jammed in between two 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.160 great freaking holidays. So there's just a lot of time 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.480 to celebrate. So if you're doing a Thanksgiving movie, like, 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.960 let's make it central to Thanksgiving, otherwise you have all 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.560 of autumn to watch it. There plenty of time. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.440 Okay, I think that's a good argument. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.640 I'm not gonna lie Rosie Europe said, not central, not 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:48.360 Rosie night. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.040 But I'm English in case you didn't know, right, And 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.680 I do love Christmas in case you didn't know. So 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.039 I look, I don't get Thanksgiving. I don't think there's 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.520 very much to be giving thanksful. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:04:59.760 I do. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.480 I agree it is correct, beautiful time to gather with 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.920 your family. I do agree with that. And the meal 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.760 is very similar to English Christmas. So for me, I'm 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.000 more of a Vib's movie watcher on this holiday, Like 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.160 I want a movie that makes me feel cozy that 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.640 I can enjoy to watch with my family. Now, if 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.600 it has a Thanksgiving twist like some of the movies 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.679 we will be talking about, especially in the horror genre, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.920 that can entice me. But I'm not gonna watch like 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.680 a Hallmark Thanksgiving movie, even though those do exist. But 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.720 I will watch like one hundred Hallmark Christmas movies. So 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.160 for me, the centrality of Thanksgiving is different. But I 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.520 am a seasonal movie watcher, like I have a TV 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.560 antennette as if you listen to this podcast, you know, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.640 and I always will be watching when Easter comes round, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.719 I won't be in church, but believe I'll be watching 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.160 every Jesus theme movie, like I will just be like, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.520 it's Easter, baby, I gotta watch this four hour Jesus 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.679 special for coming away. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.680 You thought he was gone, Honey, he's back. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.200 I guess what. He's back, And it's the same, Like 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.160 I will watch movies of this of this in this 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.160 space around the Thanksgiving time, but I don't think it's 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.040 central that said, I do think out of all the 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.200 seasonal movies, I do believe that there are certain movies 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.839 in this category that are the best of the best. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.159 Like I actually do think when it comes to movies 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.800 that are about Thanksgiving compared to movies that are about Christmas, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.920 I think Thanksgiving does have some that are up there 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.279 with the best of Christmas movies, Halloween movies and everything else. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.040 So not central to me, but I understand why people 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:34.600 enjoy them. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.520 Here's my tick. First of all, I want to say 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.800 that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I'm from New York 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.480 and I didn't know everything, and you know, as a 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.360 New Yorker, I think one of my favorite things about 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:54.840 this particular holiday season is seeing the diversity of New 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.440 York City and seeing that everybody does something and they 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.400 do it in our own way, which is wonderfully you know, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:07.240 like we cut it off from the kind of indigenous 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.160 propaganda roots, the American propaganda roots of the thing. What 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.200 happens on the ground is you got all these different 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.800 families from all these different places cooking their own things. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:18.440 Sometimes they have. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.760 Turkey involved in it. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.680 Sometimes turkey is like off to the side with lots 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.400 of other fair and I just love that about the holiday, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:30.720 how every culture makes it their own. That. Now, let 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.120 me say this, how central is the question. I believe 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:40.480 personally that what constitutes a Thanksgiving movie is one the 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:45.200 movie is set during the Thanksgiving season, which I defined 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.720 to be November post October. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.640 Okay, I like that. It's a full it's a full movie. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.280 It's a fall movie, and it can be it can 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.400 bleed into Christmas as the as we all know Thanksgiving. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.240 You know, just from a commerce sense, we are already 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.240 looking towards Christmas by the time this season or two. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:12.560 The general themes of Thanksgiving, gathering your loved ones around you, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.160 making the best of things with the people who are 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:23.520 around you, traveling, those kinds of themes. If those kind 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.520 of themes are present in a movie set in November, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.520 I think that's a Thanksgiving movie. And there is an 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.199 obviously extra credit for do I see a turkey? Do 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.600 I see a big family meal? I like that travel 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.640 is the word Thanksgiving actually spoken? Like obviously those things 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.439 increase the value. And then to just widen in a 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:53.720 little bit, does the film take place during that particular 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:59.400 November season. Does it involve either found family, actual family, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.360 or the like and three, does it involve something that 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:11.079 we associate with the experience of Thanksgiving. This widens it 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.280 to a particular kind of sports movie, which is the 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.079 college football. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.840 True true, true, true. I do think that counts the thame, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.880 and so I think that also widens it. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.080 So those are that's my particular take. I don't think 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.760 Thanksgiving per se needs to be central, that the characters 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.439 need to say, well, I gotta get hope for Thanksgiving. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.840 But I do think it has to have certain thematic 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:40.520 markers that align it with the idea of Thanksgiving. Much 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.839 in the same way that I consider Children of Men 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.000 to be a Christmas movie. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.400 I love that that's a Christmas movie. 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.680 When we get to Christmas movies we're gonna have to have. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.160 We're gonna talk about that because I think it would 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.000 be so fun to make a movie of make a 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.080 list of like the most depressing Christmas. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.679 I think that's a tremendously hopeful movie in the end. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:00.640 That is also. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.559 And it's one of the best movies ever made. It 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:06.360 is no question. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.880 Let's not get sidelined, but it is it rings with 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.000 the power of prophecy. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.040 That movie, yeah, horrifyingly. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.559 So. Now let's get into it. Let's get into what 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.400 films do we how do we want to do this? 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.679 Do we want to go genre? Do we want to 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.640 give our favorites? Or do we want to do it? 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.240 So I thought we could go by genre, maybe just 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.480 calling out the titles and then many of them if 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.200 any of us wants. If the goal is the ultimate list, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.360 we'll just pick which one. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.040 Should go on the list of the Okay, let's start 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.680 with horror. It's a a genre which I think only 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.199 recently we've begun to truly associate with Thanksgiving. As the 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.080 twenty twenty three's titular Thanksgiving. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.959 Which began as you know, a fake tray law in 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:04.480 the grind House double feature by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.079 directed by Eli Roth, it dove into the breach of 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:14.079 the market in efficiency that is Thanksgiving horror movies. I'm 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.960 not gonna lie. This is a great movie, guys. I'm sorry. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:23.960 It's good Wheelhouse, lots of good kills, very funny characters 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.640 you actually like to spend time with. I'm not a 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.720 fan of Eli Roth as a person, but I am 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.000 a fan of this movie. It's great. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.920 I had a good time watching it. I think the turkey, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.360 the woman being formed into a turkey to be roasted 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.840 in the island, will stay with me for a long time. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:41.600 But I love the. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.360 It was horrifying, but the woman who was like rammed 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.720 into a dumpster and then like launched onto the wall, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.600 Like the deaths are truly over the top. It's funny 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.120 in such a ridiculous way. You get like a giant 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.679 Thanksgiving paraded that's like creates an obstacle for them to 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.880 try to get around. Like set pieces really work in 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.839 this film, and it's a fun one to watch with 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.160 your family at Thanksgiving. Like as far as like if 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.400 we put this on while Grandma's chilling and still working 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.160 in the kitchen, she might be disturbed when she comes 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.920 out of the kitchen, But as long as Grandma's still. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.320 Working in the back, Grandma and watch a horror movie. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:23.439 It's a wonderful modern slasher with the kind of grit 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.559 and visceral violence that you associate with Eli Roth. But 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.000 I know that this is a movie where someone gets 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:37.679 baked to a turkey, but but without the You know 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.960 a lot of Eli Ros's other movies which I enjoy, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.400 and cruelty to them, they make me feel bad on 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.720 a cruelty level, like the the where you're like, God, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.520 the mind who came up with this is troubling. This 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.400 doesn't have that. So while it balanced, it is, it balances, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.880 it definitely is is. The is not the movie that 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.160 you like, Grandma, sit down and watch this, but I 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.959 think for everybody who's younger than grandma, they might enjoy it. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:06.200 I agree. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:14.240 Next up, Thanks Killing the trilogy, the Thanks Killing Trilogy. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.720 So glad that you put this, Joel, you are legend 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.800 if you haven't seen ThanksKilling. It's like an evil Turkey 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:23.240 puppet movie. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:24.839 That is. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.640 The tagline for this movie is Gobble Gobble, motherfucker and 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.640 it says warning boobs in the first second on the cover. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.120 So this is like the ultimate low budget B movie, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.160 Killer Turkey. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.920 Five hundred dollars. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:47.000 I have to say, like subleprecaun, oh sub sub like 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:48.760 cheap fucking. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.600 This is one of the weirdest things about getting older, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.760 right is the first one of these movies came out 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.160 in like the Zeros, and it has lived long enough 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.160 to become a true cult classic. I have to say, Hey, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.400 if you're looking for fun movies to show your family 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.520 where everyone will be like, what is going on? Why 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.000 did you put this on? What's wrong with you? This 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.360 is a great one for that where everyone will enjoy 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.120 watching it and it will like be like this is crazy, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.160 but they will also be like side eyeing you. Next 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:24.240 up the truly off Wow, could you even believe it exists? 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:31.040 Amityville Thanksgiving? They somehow this the independent filmmaker got the 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.240 h the avil license and. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.040 Now any yeah, and anyone can make them. So if 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.160 you search Amateurville now on tub, you will find that 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.960 there is Amateurville in space. There is Amateurville like underground, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.800 there is Amateurville somewhere else. And this is an Amateurville 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.440 Thanksgiving movie. Crazy it and it is. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:15:00.240 I would describe it as, uh, half a home, like 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:06.920 if you took the toxic Avenger and did it for 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.560 even cheaper. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.800 Yeah, with like none of the vibus in one in 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:17.720 one or two rooms. Yeah yeah, then that is amitibe Thanksgiving. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:18.120 Well. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.560 I love about this is like this is the kind 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.280 of movie. It is on tub but hilariously like on 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.800 Amazon it costs twelve ninety nine, so I know that 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.200 just begging for people who don't you just see the 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.920 word Amazonville and they're like, yeah, this is great, So 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.520 can't say we recommend that one on a bad movie level. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.640 If you enjoy a bad movie, you may want to 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:37.200 check it out. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.800 Next to Pilgrim twenty nineteenth Pilgrim on Disney and Hulu, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.000 which I have not seen a Blumhouse feature. Tell us 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.360 about this one, Joelle, Yes, you. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.840 Know, I have not seen Pilgrim either, but I put 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.840 it on the list because Reddit was like, this film 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:58.040 is a good ass time. Uh it's based on a 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:03.880 true story. Oh yeah, where it's like, you know, religious 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.400 Pilgrims trying to teach their family a lesson about being thankful, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.400 is my understanding of it. I it's a movie that 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:11.960 I watched the trailer for and I was like, I 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.160 might give this a shot, but I don't know. If 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.280 it's like a has to make the vos, I will 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.560 say I so. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.000 I too have not watched this yet, but I do 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.400 really like the series this is from, which is the 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.560 Hulu horror anthology series Into the Dark, And they actually 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.600 did a bunch of different seasonal movies. One of them 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.480 was a New Year's movie that I thought was really 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.000 really great, like it was like a take on wellness culture. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.680 And kind of like a slasher in that vein And 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.560 this is like a woman who invites pilgrim reenactors to 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.120 stay with her family to teach them a lesson, but 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.520 they just like won't break character and then things kind 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.280 of turned deadly. So I think it sounds like a 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.200 fun premise. Maybe we'll do like a little X ray 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.120 vision watch party for that one. Ooh, I will talk 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.040 about the final movie on our horror list because I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.800 didn't love this movie. Yeah, it's a great movie if 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.840 you're into slashers. This is definitely not one for grandma 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.040 because this does not have that comedic side of the 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:09.240 slash six slasher. Depressing, dark, bleak slasher set on Thanksgiving 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.840 and it's about a woman and her son who are 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.720 like stalked by the unhinged twin brother that was in 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:22.359 a mental asylum and it's very it's very like Halloween. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.919 It has Ted Raimi in it. It was directed by 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.359 John Grisma and written by Bruce Rubin. Like it's not 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.280 a well known one, but it is really cool. Starts 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:38.679 with a really great, like all time great drive in sequence, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.160 and it's just like a really depressing but very good movie. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.960 And it has like one of the bleakest endings of 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.040 all times. So I would say again, if you're looking 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.800 for a depressing movie to watch this year, put this on. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.359 This can double up with a Children of Men. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.960 It reminds me of for the slasher fans out there, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:05.639 of the early eighties Canadian horror film. My Bloody Valentine 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:10.639 has got some similarities, definitely similar that you flash for 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.480 that kind of Halloween thing where you open in the 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.520 past and you flash forward and the killings begin again 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.440 in the modern day. It's got a very bleak ending 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.920 as well, My Bloody So if you like My Bloody Valentine, 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.200 you haven't seen blood Rage, you will enjoy blood. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.639 I was going to say, also, if you always revisit 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:32.280 Black Christmas, yes, every year, this is a very similar 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.600 kind of response to that, but in Thanksgiving. So yeah, 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.640 just a great, great bleak movie. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:57.560 Yeah, next up the comedies, let's start with listen this. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.440 I think every he has the experience of you go 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:10.280 home for Thanksgiving, big gathering, lots of folks can be stressful. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:15.040 Conversations around the house and around the dinner table could 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.280 go left very easily. And so what do you have 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.040 to do? You gotta you gotta you gotta roll one up, 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.320 you gotta do it. My brother, Me and my brother 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.560 always say, hey, let's go for a walk. Let's go 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.320 for a walk, to take less time to take a walk, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.520 to take a walk on thanksgivings, take a walk on 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:34.080 a holiday. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:39.399 Gone. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.879 It's very strangth they've gone for a walk. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:42.560 I guess. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:50.200 That brings us to Digg's Giving. Yes, truly truly a 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:51.400 movie for the season. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.600 A movie for the season. I love a movie that's 0:19:55.840 --> 0:20:02.040 just like Friends getting into Shanani, you know, like it's 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.480 like there's all different versions of it. You know, you 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.760 have your like after hours style version. Recently and Noora 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.280 gave me this vibe obviously on a much higher level, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.480 but I love the ground level where you return home 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.880 and then you're like, oh no, here am I annoying 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.520 cousins who smoke loads of weed? What kind of shenanigans 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.520 are we going to get into? And that is essentially 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.520 what this movie is. And I very much enjoyed watching 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.800 this movie. When I first watched it last year, I 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.679 thought it was a very fun, silly movie for the season. 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:36.680 Next up a Jodie Foster picture. Oh hell yeah, Home 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.480 for the Holidays. This is starring the wonderful Holly Hunter. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:46.080 This is like stage one Holly Hunter post broadcast news, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.639 when Hollywood was like I think Holly Hunter could be 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:50.120 a star. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:51.399 I think she was a. 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:57.320 Wonderful a wonderful time in movies, and a fun and 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.480 kind of sad movie, very very very much. 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.440 In that comedy drama y kind of space. Also, I 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.440 would say as somebody and Joelle, I know you're in 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.159 this space too, Jason. You also began this way as 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.439 people who have had to write many articles about different 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.000 times of the year and stuff like that, believe this 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.720 is like a perennial, like maybe five six years ago, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.359 this was the Thanksgiving movie. Like there really wasn't that 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.359 many conversations around any other movies rather than this and planes, 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.480 trains and automobiles. And so that was the first time 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.560 I ever watched this was when I was researching about 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.720 writing a list about Thanksgiving movies, and I just thought 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.480 this was like such a good, sweet, layered movie. Like 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.760 a lot of movies like this are very simplistic and 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:45.760 they don't necessarily have that somber nature or that reality 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.840 of the kind of melancholy of going home for the Holidays, 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.240 but no surprises. Holly Hunter Jodi Foster. That's a team 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.720 that you can't question. And it's just a very delightful movie. 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.320 Yeah, it's it's funny and complex in the way that 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:02.600 families can be complex. 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:03.920 It is quite it is. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:09.480 There are notes of of melancholy throughout this film that 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.280 I think makes it, uh makes it unique. And it's 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.600 also I'm gonna read the cast because it's like an 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.040 incredible nineties cast. 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:17.879 I know. I was gonna say, we haven't even touched 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.920 on some of the biggest people at the Holly Hunter. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:27.320 Midst like late early stage, Robert Downey Junior. This is 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.320 like Trouble the beginning for Robert Downey Junior. 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:33.359 The number one question I think this is. 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:35.119 The only film he didn't stay sober. 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.840 Google the number one question about this movie is is 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.320 Robert Downey Junior high in Home for the Holidays? 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.280 A well known answer is yes. 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:53.280 The Wonderful, The Wonderful An Bancroft, Charles Dirting, Dylan McDermott nineties, 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:54.920 Dylan McDermott. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.240 I'm a Dylan mc dummott fan. It's pretty And the 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.280 other one who I always get confused with him, who's 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.159 also been like a lot of kind of B movies, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:03.360