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Banter is one of those things I really dig in movies and TV. Some actors really nail banter. Dennis Leary and Kevin Spacey are two of those actors. And they’re both at the top of their game in The Ref. (Which happens to be a Christmas movie, in case you didn’t know.) Family gatherings at the…

“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” Words spoken by a man who’s traveled across the country to spend the holidays with his ex-wife and daughter. He stopped in at her company Christmas party. Things went… poorly. That (kind of) sums up the basic setup for one of my favorite…

I love most episodes of The Twilight Zone (both the original and the “new” one from 1985-ish… we don’t talk much about that 2002-ish version, better to pretend there were only one or two episodes of that). There’s one particular episode, though, that I really try to watch around Christmas. The Night of the Meek is high…

There are few characters more easily recognizable than Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. One of the reasons for that is how prominently they’ve been featured in various media forms over the years. For those of us in Generation X, there’s a really good chance that when you think of those (and so many…

There are a handful of movies that pretty much became instant Christmas Classics in my life. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is one of those movies. It’s got a high-talent cast working with a script from one of the 80s best comedy writers (John Hughes) and touches on something a whole lot of people can related…