Picking the Definitive Versions of 5 Christmas Songs

Listening to the radio every December, you hear the same fifteen to thirty Christmas songs. While I think it’s pretty regrettable that listeners and radio stations are likely to favor covers of songs they’re familiar with rather than new and original songs, I think we can appreciate the art of covering songs that have been…

It’s a Wonderful Life in Pottersville, NJ

Previously on this blog, we’ve talked about It’s A Wonderful Life. In the Personal Favorites post I did a few years ago, I mentioned the fact that every year Pottersville, NJ puts up a display celebrating the movie. For the unfamiliar, It’s A Wonderful Life is about a man named George Bailey who wishes that he…

EVERYTHING WRONG WITH IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

No doubt you’re familiar with YouTube channel CinemaSins and their Everything Wrong With series, for which they have garnered over eight million subscribers. This series brilliantly dissects and analyzes the shortcomings of movies from Hollywood blockbusters to Hollywood movies of medium success. They produce about one or two videos a week, and so will probably…

Personal Favorites: It’s a Wonderful Life

To clarify, this post was later in the “Personal Favorites” schedule, but given that Christmas is soon, I thought it would be smart to skip ahead to the #2 movie on the list: It’s a Wonderful Life, the greatest Christmas movie of all time. Watching It’s a Wonderful Life has become an annual holiday tradition for many American families,…

The Man, the Myth, the Dinkles: The Integrity of Peter Dinklage

Two of Key & Peele‘s most memorable characters are the valet attendants who love to geek out about their favorite movies and TV shows. They said a great deal of hilarious things over the course of the show, whether they’re talking about “Bruce Willy,” or lauding “The incomparable Liam Neesons,” or asking “Why everyone messin with…

The Christmas Narrative

Christmas Narratives have a funny spot in the season: it’s a couple of steps away from the pious “reason for the season” religious services, and the godless consumerism of Black Friday. After a long day of shopping, one might go to the movie theater and watch a holiday movie. After coming home from church, a…