Month: December 2022

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The Cinemavention podcast will be recorded LIVE at 3:30pm EST on December 31 as a part of the Diamond Club New Year’s Eve Streamathon! We’ll be raising money for sick kids and making sure no one has to spend New Year’s Eve alone for 27 hours ringing in the New Year in every time zone!

What do you call that s**t? Self defense. It was 2 years ago today that the Cinemavention podcast began by discussing the movie Die Hard with Anthony Lemos as the guest. Today we return to the franchise that started it all by discussing the movie Die Hard 2 and how the bureaucracy of the cops getting in the way of John McClane is very frustrating and annoying but also very necessary to the story, we explain why. Plus, there is a reason that the church is the command center for the bad guys that you may have missed and we have to ask the question, is Die Hard 2 a Christmas movie?

Amos’s Links:
DCStreamathon.org
Ritual Misery
AnthonyLemos.com
The Fulcrum Feed
Twitter

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You look pretty good for your age. Thanks, but I’m seeing someone in wrapping. Our holiday movie watching season rolls on and the creator of the modern version of Showbot.tv, Preston Monroe is here to talk about the movie The Santa Clause. We go over the intricacies of this movie’s portrayal of Santa Claus and how this movie walks the line very well between portraying Santa Claus as real and Charlie having doubt about Santa’s existence. Plus, Preston’s office Christmas parties aren’t as crazy as a butt on a copy machine but he’s had some with very drunk coworkers and Santa falls off the roof of a house so easily and doesn’t even have a fire proof suit, what are the elf researchers in the Santa Clause universe supposed to be doing exactly?

Google Clock bug causing many users to miss alarms has been fixed

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Biocow.com
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Bye Buddy. Hope you find your dad. Continuing our holiday movie watching, this week we are joined by regular Game Night contributor Dolan Moles to talk about the movie Elf and how this movie is celebrating its 20th anniversary next year. It has now been described as a classic holiday movie, but has it reached Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and Frosty status? Plus, Dolan did the math on how long it took Buddy to walk from Santa’s Workshop to New York City and has Baby, It’s Cold Outside been un-canceled?

Will Ferrell on Being a Christmas Icon, Spirited with Ryan Reynolds & His Early Job as a Mall Santa – YouTube
Scott Reeder on Instagram: “Elf Movie: Prop Trick. #props #movieprops #elf #puns #christmas #setlife”
Binging with Babish: Breakfast Dessert Pasta from Elf – YouTube
How They Made Elf | The Holiday Movies That Made Us – YouTube

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Keep the change, ya filthy animal. It’s the month of December which means it’s time to cover holiday movies here on Cinemavention and we begin with the film Home Alone and Samuel Lewis of The Samcast Network is here to talk about it. This movie has arguably stood the test of time and is the most successful Christmas movie in the box office. It would take 21 years for this movie to be dethroned as the highest grossing live-action comedy film, not just Christmas live-action comedy films. Why is this movie so timeless? Plus, Willie believes that Buzz’s apology to Kevin isn’t sincere and has modern technology made it impossible to remake this film?

Home Alone (franchise) – Wikipedia
Is ‘Angels With Filthy Souls’ Real? – The Story Behind Home Alone’s Fake Gangster Movie
Home Alone: Macaulay Culkin Google Assistant Parody – YouTube
Idiots Test Hydrogen (with Macaulay Culkin) – YouTube
Solving a Crime with Bloodstain Analysis (feat. Macaulay Culkin) – YouTube

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