THE HOLDOVERS and HOT FROSTY: Reviewed!
Welcome to your boxing day edition of the Triple C to the A to the H! We especially enjoy hanging out with you over the holiday season. We need our you-time and you need our us-time too, don’t you? So this just works out a treat for all parties involved really.
This week we’re living in this timeline in which we’re like hey … the Christmas songs special circa 2024 was a TREAT … but what about CHRISTMAS MOVIES!? Let’s talk about them still.
Watch Hot Frosty. Don’t act like you’re too cool for this shit, it’s Christmas for fucks sake. Let’s get cheesy. And if it gets pitched on our podcast, we all have to - … well … I guess, technically, only the person who the film was pitched to absolutely HAS to watch it. Haha. Joke’s on him I guess, right!? … RIGHT?? … (spoiler, maybe it isn’t actually, imagine): https://www.netflix.com/watch/81764579
Ok now read some smart stuff about Hot Frosty and the hallmark movie phenomenon and feel smart about the fact that you spent time watching ninety minutes of filmed air with actors in it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/arts/christmas-movies-hallmark-lohan.html
Hot Air made Jack King of GQ cry, read all about it: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hot-frosty-review
Kayleigh Dray of Stylist wrote about how Hot Frosty is actually the profound one and the haters are the shallow drips (have you pressed play yet?): https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/film/hot-frosty-review/938700
Watch The Holdovers for Christmas, a great film based at Christmas that is also (still) a Christmas film: https://www.amazon.com/Holdovers-Paul-Giamatti/dp/B0CJRGWVC6
Empire reviewed The Holdovers and gave it five stars. Little White Lies like “hey why aren’t we in the shownotes” and I’m like “pipe down Little White Lies, Empire is the OG!”: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/the-holdovers/
Alexander Payne (the director of The Holdovers) spoke to the Directors UK podcast and they had a very good conversation: https://directors.uk.com/news/podcast-in-conversation-alexander-payne-on-the-holdovers
David Hemingson (the writer of The Holdovers) spoke to the Script Apart podcast and they also had a very good conversation: https://www.scriptapart.com/episodes/episode-91-the-holdovers-david-hemingson-interview
We’ll see you in 2025 for our 2nd annual New Year’s special. God we love doing this podcast. We love the podcast, we do! We love the podcast, we do! We love the podcast, we do, ohhhh, podcast we love youuu!!
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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT:
CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY:
https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/moana/70GoJHflgHH9
JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvR7Dkg4NQU
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