Kristine and Bill open up a real . . . bad movie as they deal with CAN OF WORMS, a 1999 Disney Channel original. Weird puppets and animatronics and early CGI and stuff all come to earth to annoy a kid, whose life was pretty good to begin with actually! 

Happy brazzle dazzle new year! We're back with one of Bill's childhood favorites, picked by Kristine. Pete's Dragon *might* be too well-known to really qualify for our show, if only because of the 2016 "reimagining," but Kristine had never seen it, and we bet some of you hadn't, either. An adorable cartoon dragon, sweet seventies songs, child slavery, alcoholism and graphic murder threats make this film, which opened on the same day as Star Wars, a reallllllly interesting one to revisit! 

Kristine and Bill tackle the Hallmark Christmas movie of Disney+ Christmas movies, 2011's "`12 Dates of Christmas," starring the extremely likable Amy Smart and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. We sing our own movie-specific version of that infernal song, talk about its history and the long, proud history of people ripping off the brilliant 1993 film Groundhog Day, and discover a lot more to like than we expected in this ABC Family hidden gem. 

Disney just released this movie in November of 2018--in theaters and everything--but we have *no* memory of it and we love The Nutcracker, so The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is our movie this week. So many beautiful women of so many different ages in Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren! And also, uh...they use SOME of Tchaikovsky's music, and the effects are pretty good! ...So yeah, this one's a mess, but come along for the ride with us.

It's back into the bowels of the DCOMverse for this week's festive offering, "'Twas the Night," starring now-world-renowned actor Bryan Cranston as the sleazy-uncle-turned Santa and co-starring so, SO many Canadians. 

It's another Fifth Monday Favorite, and Kristine picked one of our favorite fairly new family traditions: 1992's heartwarming The Muppet Christmas Carol. We talk about Sir Michael Caine, writer Jerry Juhl, songwriting genius Paul Williams, and so much more. Come along--after all, there's only 25 or so more sleeps 'til Christmas. 

It's our (the show's) birthday! We celebrate with kind of a supersized episode on the largely forgotten 2010 video-game-based blockbuster that reminds us that absolutely nothing is off-limits to white people. The very not-Persian Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton swashbuckle and smolder their way through the generically ancient Middle East in a film that gives us a LOT to talk about (and not *just* all the whitewashing)! Come along! 

We watch the dubbed version of Disney's first Chinese venture, about a magic gourd who emerges from a lake to torture a boy and/or make all his dreams come true. There's just not much out there about this one to talk about, so it's short and informal. Enjoy! 

50 of these already? It's Kristine's birthday this week, so Bill picked a lesser-known film from one of her favorites, the Muppets. The brilliant Billy Connolly, Tim Curry and Jennifer Saunders join everybody's favorite felt heroes in retelling Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, the Muppets' last theatrical release before the big 2011 comeback. 

From ghosts and ghouls straight on to aliens, Kristine and Bill talk about the 1999 Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Daniels feature My Favorite Martian. It's based on a mid-sixties sitcom, and we've got quite a bit of that in here too (it's on Amazon Prime). We take a look at the marketing, such as it was, for this mega-flop, plus deep dives on Lloyd, Daniels and the one real link between series and movie, Ray Walston.