December 19, 2023

Episode 45- The Movie Squad Returns for Christmas ft. Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke and Jonathan Bartsch

56 minutes

The movie squad featuring my good friends Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke, and Jonathan Bartsch return to Wrestling. This time we talk Christmas movies from Elf to It’s a Wonderful Life to the Grinch, and of course we engage in the age long debate, Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Along the way we wrestle with Gospel themes in various Christmas movies, and we discuss Marxist

themes of Elf.

Resources:

About “Workism”: The

Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable - The Atlantic

The “Uncanny Valley” as seen in Polar Express:

The

uncanny valley of Robert Zemeckis film 'Polar Express' (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

The

Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori - IEEE Spectrum

For more from the Movie Squad:

Episode 41- Summer 2023 Movie Critique Roundtable ft. Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke and Jonathan Bartsch - Wrestling | Podcast on Spotify

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