The Interview (2014)
The irony is of course, now that Sony has pulled it and the parallel release of highly embarrassing Sony emails, means that The Interview will now go down in infamy and be more famous in the future than it would ever have been had North Korea merely ignored it. Still, it is a terrible, terrible thing that Sony has now refused to release it.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 19
Day 19?? F*cking hell, Christmas is galloping up on us on the inside lane, isnât it? I only finished Christmas (present) shopping yesterday, and weâve still got a fair bit of Christmas (food) shopping still to do! Best crack on.
Anyway, today itâs⊠oh. (shudder, grimace) I havenât got one of âmyâ films scheduled now âtil Christmas Eve. Weâve a bunch of mrs.caressâ favourites to power through, and over the next four days weâre going with two movies in particular and their respective first sequels (they both had more sequels than that, but I simply couldnât take any more). Today, itâs The Santa Clause (Pasquin, 1994), starring Tim âBuzz Lightyearâ Allen. Ho ho bloody ho.
iâll probably watch some episodes of new series Constantine, adaptation of comics Hellblazer
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 20
-Where did he go?
-Maybe he committed suicide.
Speaking of which, today itâs Macaulay Culkinâs finest hour, in Home Alone (Columbus, 1990).
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 21
Hm. The weekend intervened once again yesterday and I was unable to take in Home Alone. So, today, Iâm making a late change: We were scheduled to watch The Santa Clause 2 (Lembeck, 2002) today and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Columbus, 1992) tomorrow, but Iâm swapping those around and making today a Home Alone double-bill. Hurrah. Oh well, that might earn me enough brownie points to get a spag on later, at least.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 22
Okay, so we endured our Home Alone double bill yesterday, and today, The Santa Clause 2 (Lembeck, 2002) puts us back on track. These last four days have felt much longer than that. Roll on Christmas Eve, and Sir Michael Caine, and Kermit, and Gonzo.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 23
Itâs here! Christmas Eve Eve, everybody! And right now, Iâm watching Moon (Jones, 2009). Not very Christmassy but itâs my reward for having sat through our official pick for today: Miracle on 34th Street (Mayfield, 1994). Not a favourite of mine by any stretch - itâs one of mrs.caressâ big favourites of the season, however - but I do enjoy the late Lord Attenboroughâs turn as Saint Nick/Kris Kringle, tbf.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 24: CHRISTMAS EVE
Today, itâs our fourth and final visit to Charles Dickensâ ghostly tale of Christmas, and itâs also arguably my favourite festive movie of them all: The Muppet Christmas Carol (Henson, 1992). And, muppet film or not, Sir Michael Caineâs turn as Ebeneezer Scrooge remains one of the best thereâs ever been.
And in anticipation of being away from here tomorrowâŠ
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 25: CHRISTMAS DAY
âSANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTAâS COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM!â
So, this is Christmas. And what have we done?
Well, for the big day weâve gone for classic-in-waiting, Elf (Favreau, 2003). Mrs.caressâ all-time favourite Christmas pic, my boyâs favourite Christmas pic, top three for me easily, funny, warm, Christmassy, the perfect choice really. Donât be a cotton-headed ninnymuggins this Christmas: Get yourself some Elf.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 26: BOXING DAY
So, all that fretting and fussing, and Christmas finally arrived⊠and now itâs gone. I hope you all received the suitably festive blend of rich meats, sickly alcoholic liqueurs, cruciferous vegetables and resultant panicked runnybumhole that typify the big day.
And already weâre into the lazy âSundayâ vibe of Boxing Day, informally and universally recognised of course as âTons of Cold Meat Still In The Fridge Wrap It All Back Up Though If You Take Any And Thereâs Branston And Pickled Onions On The Kitchen Side And Do You Want Some Twiglets With That Oh Wait The Bloody Kids Pigged All The Twiglets Yesterday But I Think Thereâs Some Pringles Left In That Tube There Oh Sod It I Canât Be Arsed Making Up A Plate Iâll Just Scoff This Massive Bag Of Cashews To Myself And Wash Them Down With Two Bottles Of Advocaat Wow I Shouldnât Have Done That I Think My Heart Has Stopped Cashews And Advocaat Seemed Really Moreish At The Time I Wonder If Swigging Chocolate Liqueur Straight From The Bottle Will Make Things Worse Or Better HOLY SH*T Iâve Just Found The Terrys Chocolate Orange In The Back Of The Cupboard We All Forgot It If I Play This Cool I Might Be Able To Sneak Off To The Bog And Scoff The Whole Bastard Thing To Myself Whilst Simultaneously Trying To Pooh This Advocaat/Cashew Cement Out Of Me Without Rupturing My Danglies And Shooting My Testes Out Of My Knobendâ Day. Ah, the global unified song of large intestines all over the world every December 26. Itâs magical, really. And, in honour of this largely being a day of insulting the porcelain, todayâs offering is a double bill of feculence, from mrs.caressâ own library: Santa Claus: The Movie (Szwarc, 1985) and Love Actually (Curtis, 2003). I can feel my undercarriage loosening already.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 27
For our penultimate Yuletide tale, weâre pitching up and moving in for the holidays with the Griswolds in National Lampoonâs Christmas Vacation (Chechik, 1989). Iâm sharing a bed with Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki. And weâre going to have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f*cking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white @ss down that chimney tonight, heâs going to find the jolliest bunch of @ssholes this side of the nuthouse.
The dark Valley (Das finstere Tal) - abstract sounds like a promising revenge story in an Alpine setting.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 28
âDear Father in heaven, Iâm not a praying man, but if youâre up there and you can hear meâŠshow me the way. Show me the way.â
Our final Christmas movie for 2014 at casa.caress is maybe THE Christmas movie. With Jimmy Stewart in arguably the best form of his magnificent career, it can only be Itâs a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946). Attaboy, Clarence.
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âDear Father in heaven, Iâm not a praying man, but if youâre up there and you can hear meâŠshow me the way. Show me the way.â
Our final Christmas movie for 2014 at casa.caress is maybe THE Christmas movie. With Jimmy Stewart in arguably the best form of his magnificent career, it can only be Itâs a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946). Attaboy, Clarence.
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I admire you a lot for watching all those bad Christmas movies (well, they werenât all bad, of course, at least not that bad), but this is the one I should rewatch. Great movie. The Christmas movie indeed
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 29
We finish our 31-day odyssey with a trio of pictures flavoured with New Year celebration, and the first movie up takes back over a quarter of a century to a time when Eddie Murphy was still rather funny. No, he really was, you know. Once. Today, itâs Trading Places (Landis, 1983). I havenât seen this film in years, I wonder if it holds up.
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We finish our 31-day odyssey with a trio of pictures flavoured with New Year celebration, and the first movie up takes back over a quarter of a century to a time when Eddie Murphy was still rather funny. No, he really was, you know. Once. Today, itâs Trading Places (Landis, 1983). I havenât seen this film in years, I wonder if it holds up.
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Iâve seen this one recently while in a Hotel in one of my travels, and yes it stills holds up, a classical comedy by now, the cast was at their prime in those days.
It did indeed hold up, sir. As did Jamie Lee Curtisâ chest. 
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 30
Today, I was going to go with New Yearâs Eve-based disasterama The Poseidon Adventure (Neame, 1972) but, well, I thought Iâd use this opportunity instead to take a look at the loose remake Poseidon (Petersen, 2006). I donât remember it being especially well received at the time but Wolfgang Petersen deserves a shot, doesnât he? I think so, anyway.
31 DAYS of CHRISTMAS - DAY 31: NEW YEARâS EVE
âThatâs my aftershave!â
Ah, New Yearâs Eve. Singing Auld Lang F*cking Syne, saying, âSee you next year!â to one another like itâs the most hilarious joke ever, everyone celebrating the stroke of midnight as though it doesnât happen EVERY FCKING DAY⊠wonderful. And I shall be celebrating in the traditional fashion: Trying to make sure that I watch the finest New Yearâs Eve movie ever made, Party Party (Winsor, 1983), before my bloody in-laws show up and close out the year the way they spent the rest of it, basically fcking my sh*t up at every turn. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Bloody hell, if only!
Be safe this evening, gentlemen, and⊠see you next year! (hilarious.)
31 Days of Halloween, 30 Spags in November and 31 Days of Christmas. A 92-day movie marathon and, at lastâŠ
I mean, I did drunkenly agree with my wife to make January â31 DAYS of MRS.CARESSâ PICKSâ but, she wonât actually hold me to that, will she?
Will she??
I have to sautĂ© your tenacity and organisational skills last.caress! Iâm not sure I could do your three month marathon. Anyhow, Petersen has had a rather odd career - with Das Boot you would think he was a great director, making a film that is leagues ahead of every other submarine film ever made, but the rest of his subsequent Hollywood career has been spent making rather uninteresting action films of variable merit (even if I have a probably misplaced soft-spot for Troy). A disappointment I suppose in the end.
Street Hunter (1990).
An ex cop turns bounty hunter and does a pretty good job in a nice cool way, as he turns his attention to some cop killers. Low budget but the excellent Steve James (who died way to early) makes it alot better with his sense of style. Also a rare lead role for the actor.