Today we are talking about the 2003 holiday favorite directed by Jon Favreau starring Will Farrell, James Caan and Mary Steenburgen. Raised as an over-sized elf, Buddy, a human travels from the North Pole to NYC to meet his biological father who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.

 

Buddy: “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.” 

 

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

 

• Will Farrell’s childish acting
• The iconography of the Rankin & Bass cartoons
• The casting of James Caan
• Happy accidents like the Santa looking fellow wearing an all red sweat suit.
• Buddy as a fish out of water

 

Next week’s film will be Family Stone available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime

 

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Today we are talking about the 1996 Peter Segal film My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon, James Garner and Dan Ackroyd. The film pairs two of Hollywood’s legends Garner and Lemmon as former presidents and rivals who have to join forces to expose the current president’s corruption. 

[Russell Kramer's made-up words to "Hail to the Chief."]

Russell Kramer: Hail to the chief, he's the chief and he needs hailing. He is the chief, so everybody hail like crazy. Hail to... that's more or less how it...

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Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

 

Next weeks film is: ELF available on HBO Max

 

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Today we are talking about the 2004 film starring Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney. When Gene Hackman as the former president returns to his vacation home in the quaint eastern town and is approached to be the mayor. Seeing it as an opportunity to keep his ex-wife away from taking half of his home he decides to run. 

 

 

Bert Langdon: “We'll find dirt. Even if we have to make it up.”

 

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

 

• The male gaze of Gene Hackman to Maura Tierney 
• Ray Romano, the clueless male romantically
• Bruce the Moose
• Baby Fred Savage
• “The Eagle” 
• Love triangle 
• A golf game where the dame is the prize (come on!)

 

Next week’s film is My Fellow Americans

 

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Today we are sharing the 1993 film, DAVE about a man who looks like the president so he momentarily stands in for him while he recovers from a stroke. This star studded film illustrates the idealism of what we expect from our administration. 

 

[singing in the shower]

Dave: “Hail to the chief / He's the one we all say "Hail" to. / We all say "Hail" / 'Cause he keeps himself so clean! / He's got the power, / That's why he's in the shower…"

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• The logistics of the film’s premise
• The idealism of the film
• The budget reduction scene
• Our highest pause count ever!!

 

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Next Weeks Film: Welcome to Mooseport

 

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Today we are kicking off this month of political movies with a romantic comedy starring Seth Rogan and Charlize Theron. Theron plays the Secretary of State who is running for President and hires childhood chum played by Seth Rogan as her speech writer. And the romantic comedy hijinks occur.

 

Fred Flarsky: I feel like maybe you want me to kiss you right now but I don't want to make the same stupid mistake I made 25 years ago.

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• The classic male gaze followed by her female gaze
• The relationship between the two of them
• The great scene when Fred discovers that they aren’t the only one’s in a relationship
• That time they did a Molly in Cartagena, Columbia

 

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

 

Next week’s film will be the 1993 film Dave

 

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Today we are talking about last year’s Netflix doc about a special relationship between a National Geographic diver and a small octopus. What started as an experiment seeing what would happen if he visited the octopus everyday turned into a life lesson at the perfect time that he needed it. 

 

Craig Foster: “What she taught me was to feel... that you're part of this place, not a visitor. That's a huge difference.”

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• The cinematography under the ocean
• The sounds of the film expressing the calm and the fear
• His observation of the ocean and the octopus’ behavior
• Her different disguises and ways of transporting through the sea
• He questions what she gained from the relationship
• She taught him to be empathetic to the other, creatures

 

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Today we are talking about the lesser known climbing film. Free Solo was nominated and won the Oscar the following year in 2018 and got all of the attention. We discovered this film on Netflix in 2018 and preferred it to Free Solo. This film follows Tommy Caldwell as he strives to be the first person to free climb The Dawn Wall, the last unclimbed portion of the famous El Capitan of Yosemite.

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

 

• Being kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan
• Loosing the top part of his first finger on his left hand
• The training to get better after his injury
• The differences of Free Solo and The Dawn Wall
• The gripping fear we had just watching this film
• The relationship between Kevin & Tommy

 

 

“I don’t know what is wrong with me but I just love this shit” - Tommy Caldwell

 

 

 

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Today we are talking about the small indie film written and directed by Griffin Hammond. Support this indie filmmaker as well as find out the story behind your favorite Pho condiment. Why is there a rooster on the bottle? Where did this stuff come from? Where is it made? And why is it so cheap? Find out these answers to your “burning” questions as well as see how the sauce is made.

 

“Wow, just hit 100 reviews of the film on Vimeo! 87% of you gave it 5 stars! THANK YOU!” - Griffin Hammond

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• What people like to eat it on
• How many different songs about sriracha there are
• David Tran - The hero of the film
• Who invented it the original sauce -  a woman in Thailand

 

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

 

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Today we are talking about the 2020 documentary about eight members of Seattle’s Soldiers of Destiny scooter club. These fellows road on their scooters from Florida to their home in Seattle. It is quite comical to watch their antics and their bikes breaking down and them bickering in the morning before the ride. 

 

Ron: "My bike is a lot like me. It's big, it's dumb and it tries too hard to be cool."

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• The logistics of a ride like this
• The tail of the Dragon
• The danger of the trip
• The silly challenges

 

The Ewen McGregor documentary series that was mentioned was The Long Way Round, The Long Way Down, The Long Way Up.

 

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

 

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Today we are inspired by the 2005 documentary about a bunch of rag tag wheelchair rugby players. The players outfit their wheelchairs in a Mad Max style. The film exposes the audience to the players, how they sustained their injuries and how they cope with their body’s new limitations. Mark Zupan is featured throughout the film and one of the standout players. The film also follows ex USA player, Joe Soares, now Canadian coach as he interacts with players and his family.

 

Andy Cohn: “When people in the community see you in a chair they kinda treat you like you're made of glass or that you're fragile; things like that. But, in wheelchair rugby, it's kinda like high speed bumper cars.”

 

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

 

• The distinction between the different abilities and how you can’t have more than 8 points on the court
• Zupan, the film’s star
• The national event held in Sweden and The Kiwis doing the haka
• The ex-USA player with a chip on his shoulder that is now the coach for Canada 
• The various types of accidents/polio/birth defects
• Joe’s son taking about his dad’s trophies
• The crazy How To videos on how quadriplegics deal with sexual situations

 

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

 

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