I only watched The Night Before for the first time a few years ago and it's so funny. The Rankin Bass stop motion movies and Charlie Brown are also musts for me.
Home Alone’s hijinks are fairly brutal, but still kind of fun. Home Alone 2’s just come off as pretty mean.
My Criterion Challenge 2026 Gonna try to do the criterion challenge this year if any of yall wanna make your own lists
90's kids movies were all about ignoring childhood endangerment/neglect laws Angels In The Outfield is about a guy who gives his kid away for adoption at age 12 so he can go ride his Harley Mighty Ducks is about an attorney who gets arrested for DUI and reckless driving and a judge sentences him to be in charge of the safety of children.
I heard an argument recently that Batman Returns (1992) is a Christmas movie, and honestly that intrigues me way more than the tired Die Hard discourse.
It’s the exact same “discourse” though. Just a question of whether you consider a movie that’s set during Christmas to be a “Christmas movie”
Die Hard 2 is actually the better Christmas movie because it has snow, but yeah we watch Batman Returns every year at this time.
They really dropped the ball by not having every Die Hard sequel randomly take place on a different holiday. Die Hard on July 4th, Die Hard on Easter, Die Hard on Valentine's Day, ect.
Gremlins is a good example of “not explicitly a Christmas movie but it takes place at Christmas so it is a Christmas movie”
In the movie, Phoebe Cates does tell that hilarious story about her dad dressing up as Santa, getting stuck going down the roof and dying. Some say that’s the best Christmas story of all time.
yup, the fourth one, with Justin Long and Timothy Olyphant (also the first one i watched growing up). not a good movie, but if you feel like watching, at least go for the unrated cut
I have long had a pitch for a Die Hard prequel. It's probably bad, but it's been in my head forever Halloween 1977 New York City. The NYPD conducts a raid on a huge drug warehouse run by the mob, and dirty cops kill most of the dealers inside. A lone criminal survives by hiding in the building, and he starts methodically killing cops one by one while taunting them. A rookie NYPD cop named John McClain takes it on himself to take the guy out, while maybe learning a thing or two for the future.
iirc, i think they were trying to get a prequel of a similar nature off the ground before the Fox purchase happened (although i don't know much about the plot)
I also have a pitch for a Die Hard sequel spinoff where Argyll becomes the driver for the powerful Hollywood elite in the mid 90's and gets caught up in a underworld conspiracy.