Hopefully tonight, or more likely tomorrow, I shall be watching the newest member of my DVD family (with many thanks to the good Reverend):
Oh God! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Fuck*n genius!
I watched El Puro again. 
That’s excellent news LG, thanks for that heads-up. I’ve had my eye on this for a while but I wasn’t even contemplating checking the torrent sites until the new year. Top man.
Well, with SpagvemberFest 2015 almost at an end, it’s time to stock up on After Eights, advocaat and amphetamines, and get festive with the 31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS Yuletide movie marathon! Ho Ho Ho! A Christmas film/TV special every day in December (incorporating a couple of New Year’s Eve-themed pictures towards the end, of course). Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la la la!
Your inexhaustible enthusiasm is almost wearying 
How do you maintain such a stamina?
My stock response to that question John is to smile enigmatically whilst quietly cramming a half-used box of Viagras back up my arsehole where I hide them. 
The spags every day have been hard, I admit. I’ve been trying to do it without subjecting my wife to too many of them, which has often led to me watching them in bed late at night once she’s asleep which has meant that I’m usually tired myself before I start (it’s also brought my Bond Movie adventure to a halt since that’s when I tended to watch those too). Christmas is easy though by comparison. Almost all of my choices for the month will be festive family fare that can go on in the early evening when there’s feck-all on anyway. Besides, it gets us into the festive spirit as the month draws on.
Question to fellows who have seen Bone tomahawk: How much horror and gore is in it?
Hardly any. For the vast majority of its runtime - including the entire first ninety minutes or so - it’s just a western. A sparse, deliberately paced western, albeit with a pervasive air of foreboding throughout. It’s just that, when the relatively brief gore hits (essentially, we’re talking about one scene, really), it hits as hard as any so-called torture porn/gorenography movie out there.
Yep!..what last.caress said.
Thanks guys. So I think it sounds suitable for a romantic night at the movies with one’s missus (that likes westerns but doesn’t like gore).
Right, let’s get festive!
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 1
Kicking off my Christmas adventure is the not-terribly-Christmas-sounding In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008). Can’t say for sure how Christmassy or indeed even how good it is since I’ve never seen it, but I’m led to understand it’s a pretty decent pic.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 2
Today, we sat down to Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, 2003), a wonderful and charming anime concerning the trials and tribulations of a trio of homeless people in Tokyo (“A bum, a homo and a runaway”, as one of them puts it) as they try to help a baby they’ve found abandoned in a skip on Christmas Eve. From Satoshi Kon, the late great twisted genius behind such dark tales as Perfect Blue (1997), Paprika (2006) and the series Paranoia Agent (2004).
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 3
This evening, we’ve tucked into a mini-marathon of Christmas episodes of Frasier, one of my favourite sitcoms of all time. I’ve seen them all so many times now that I can pretty much recite the lines but they still make me smile. Indeed, the entire show is still in very regular comfort/bedtime telly rotation at casa.caress.
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Yippee ki Friday evening, motherf*ckers!
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 4
Tonight we’re getting our '80’s groove on, along with our bloodstained wifebeaters (that’s a vest btw, not a sinister club of domestic violence offenders), to Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988), featuring such warming festive delights as Bruce Willis cutting his feet to ribbons, and Alan Rickman falling off of a high-rise. Actually, Die Hard really does put me in the festive mood, I’m surprised I placed it this early in my Christmas selection. Really should’ve been closer to the Big Day. Ah well.
I just survived Fellini’s “La Voce Della Luna”. Avoid it!
Now I need something entertaining and shallow to calm my nerves and wake myself up. Maybe “The Gunman” with Sean Penn…
I bailed out at 25 mins…couldn’t take it anymore. Let me know if it gets any better. 
Same here. Could just not get into this one.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 5
My son is almost twelve, so he’s hitting an age where he’ll be putting certain interests behind him, one of which it seems is animated family adventures. So, at least until he’s old enough to once again appreciate these things, it would appear that it’s a final festive run out for tonight’s Christmas fare, a trio of animated Christmas specials: Shrek the Halls (Trousdale, 2007), Merry Madagascar (Soren, 2009) and Toy Story That Time Forgot (Purcell, 2014). Ah, sod him, next year we’ll just make him leave the room while mrs.caress and I enjoy them. 
