Tinseltown - The Holiday Movie Podcast

Tinseltown - The Holiday Movie Podcast

The only podcast where the Mayor of Christmas will watch and review every Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year, and otherwise midwinter holiday film to firmly establish the new holiday canon.

Episodes

April 1, 2025 55 mins

Because if there's one thing your life needed this April Fool's Day, it's two straight white men talking about Snow White 2025. We promise to be normal about it. Topics include Rachel's bad luck with costars, Brian's recent weird movie viewing habits, and Flonk's inability to recall current movie releases.

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Amanda and I take a look at Rob Zombie's misbegotten Halloween remake, a movie which played to all his strengths, but was still pretty awful, as the core idea was still bad, and also a lot of his strengths just shouldn't be in a Halloween movie. Hell of a cast, though!

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October 25, 2024 107 mins

While reviewing the awkwardly titled "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", Brian and Maggie devolve into insanity. Very quickly.

NOTE : I have not fully checked this episode yet because it's very long and I'm very busy. If there are any errors, I'll catch them this weekend and upload a fixed version.

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October 17, 2024 69 mins

The Count and TLo take a look at "Halloween". Not that one. No, not that one. This is the third Halloween that's the eleventh movie, the fourth reboot, and the third Halloween 2. How hard is that to keep track of?

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The Pumpkin Patch returns with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, in which the producers tried to make this a proper perpetual series without Carpenter or Curtis, but with Pleasance! You still have Loomis! You all still have Loomis!

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October 3, 2024 117 mins

Welcome to the alternate universe, pals! All this month, we'll be dipping into the Halloween universe to examine all the various times the Halloween franchise tried to make sense of its bloated continuity. This time, Courtney and I check out the first attempt to turn a singular masterwork into a franchise, which they did, for better or worse. (Note: Worse)

We also discuss who finds the footage in found footage movies, why everyone...

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In this VERY impulsively recorded episode, a very convoluted April Fool's joke leads to us watching another horny Grinch movie.

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The mayor's final sibling joins him to review A Christmas Story 2, a real hunk of junk from a short-lived DTV crap factory. NOTE: Since recording this episode, I finished "The House", and honestly, it was pretty good. Rough first act, but that's comedies for you, sometimes you have to sweat through the exposition.

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Like a delicious sandwich made with terrible bread, the middle of Legasequel Month turns out to be quite tasty, as Tim and I look at the surprisingly good, if awkwardly titled "A Christmas Story Christmas", which is probably the best case scenario for what it could have been. I don't know why there's two slices of bread on each side of the sandwich.

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It's the middle of the beginning of theme month and the beginning of the end for Bogdanovich mainstay and Oscar nominee Randy Quaid. Join us as we look into the sad mush that is "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure".

 

 

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HAPPY THEME MONTH! Our theme this year is "garbage sequels made LONG after anyone cared", and what better way to start than with 2022's "Home Sweet Home Alone", which isn't the worst Home Alone movie, but SURE IS the one I like the least!

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October 31, 2023 107 mins

Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch, y'all! Brian and Lara from the Halloween universe, beset by fading batteries, review Brian's deepest childhood terror, a dumb comedy movie for little children.

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This episode is almost exactly 50% disgusting medical chat and 50% Colleen and I risking divine obliteration for our blasphemy.

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May 9, 2023 56 mins

I'm on medical leave for a couple of weeks due to... well, I'll probably do a B.A.D. about it, so I'll save you the gory details for now. Pun intended. But in the meantime, here's Colleen and I reviewing "The Littlest Angel", a semi-religious 70s TV movie with a truly weird cast.

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This week, Courtney and I become the first people in history to compare "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish" to "Hamlet".

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April 26, 2023 53 mins

Flonk and Brian and the BRAND NEW (at the time) Spider struggle to remember the made-for-TV Kelsey Grammer vehicle "Mr. Saint Nick".

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Anton and the Mayor look at Paul Feig's first big movie, "Unaccompanied Minors", a semi-fairly maligned but quite unfairly forgotten pretender to the Home Alone throne. Which is to say a movie where kids get up to unsupervised shenanigans at the expense of a character actor.

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April 12, 2023 74 mins

This week, Colleen and I look at what happens when one of Hollywood's most sullen and thuggish leading actors needs a hit of good publicity and agrees to be the guy in a pretty generic romcom. It's "Holiday Affair"!

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April 1, 2023 59 mins

Happy April First! I'm in a hurry, hope I don't upload a commentary by mistake or something.

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March 21, 2023 10 mins

Another Broken Arm Dispatch, I'm afraid, as I take stock of the many delays we've faced, vent about the lingering effects of the pandemic, and OFFICIALLY schedule our next posted episode.

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