Melissa finds The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo exceeds expectations. Michael spends Christmas Eve at Disneyland. Plus! A glut of '70s and '80s television and '90s cult classic movies arrives on Netflix and Hulu. Another year of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Trent Reznor the film composer returns to CD. New books from Dean Koontz, The View's Elizabeth Hasslebeck, and "the sexy" Suzanne Sommers. Massive hype generated by trailers for The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, and Ridley Scott's Prometheus. And a dose of celebrity banality. Happy New Year!

Basking in the glow of Peter Jackson's trailer for The Hobbit and pitifully attempting to decipher Tom Hardy's Bane monologue, Mac seeks Dave's blessing to imbibe on He-Man and The Masters of the Universe, Dave is disappointed with the Dexter season finale, and Erich doesn't have access to Willow. Reviews of Young Justice, The Simpsons: Season 14, and Cinematic Titanic: War of the Insects. Plus! Favorite fake Seinfeld movies, Memorable beards, Famous aliases, and Supervillains with speech impediments.

Patrick interviews Erich about his favorite movies of all time, including Annie Hall, The Graduate, This is Spinal Tap, Rushmore, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Kent and Michelle's bi-weekly odyssey continues with this year's unconventional Christmas episode: reviews of Die Hard, The Sound of Music, three vintage Canadian animated films, a statistical breakdown of the Christmas holiday, and a visit from Old Saint Nick. Yippee Kay Yay, Mister Mistletoe!

This week, Clark gets into the holiday spirit by offering a full hour of film music from Christmas movies. You'll hear selections from Blizzard, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas, Scrooged, Love Actually, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Jack Frost, and The Polar Express.

Another exciting week of entertainment is on tap, as Melissa learns what happens in The Booth at the End, Michael learns valuable Christmas lessons from Fat Albert and Mr. Magoo. Plus! Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of the dwindling box office, the arrival of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a rundown of festive holiday week television, new arrivals on Netflix Instant and Hulu Plus, Austin Powers is making his way to Broadway, The Lord of The Rings gets the Lego treatment, your weekly celebrity scanner report, and much more.

This week's episode sees more talk of Skyrim, as Kev puts the final nail into the main quest. Meanwhile, Jon gets his Smackdown on with WWE 12, and Steve continues his hate march against the Nintendo 3DS. Plus! The boys finish out 2011 with talk of their favourite gaming moments.

Dave and Mac return to the glory days, when it was just the two of them huddled around a roaring fire and open mic. This week's hot topics include X-Men vs. The Avengers, comic books in the digital age, embedding stealth pilots in hit series, reviewing the french thriller Point Blank on Blu-ray and the latest Ben 10 DVD release, action scenes on trains, and fights scenes in bathrooms.

For those of you already overdosing on Christmas cheer, we offer some much needed counter-programming. Join Patrick and Mike as they freebase all eight movies in the original Halloween franchise, beginning with John Carpenter's 1978 classic, and ending with Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Katee Sackhoff, and Tyra Banks taking down Michael Myers one last time.

This week, Clark explores the music of the late Jerry Fielding, offering selections from The Wild Bunch, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Outfit, Super Cops, Chato's Land, The Big Sleep, The Black Bird, and The Gauntlet. In addition, a handful of new DVD and Blu-ray releases are reviewed.