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Movies That Don't Suck and Some That Do: The Holdovers/Thanksgiving


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Chris and Neil present their The Holdovers and Thanksgiving Review!

Neil and Chris are fat and happy after the Thanksgiving holiday and ready to talk about their favorite pastime, movies! First, after the intro they get stuck in thier boarding school over the holidays with a curmudgeon of a teacher in into Alexander Payne's newest one- The Holdovers starring Paul Giamatti. Then, after some news, they talk Eli Roth's return to horror in the gore-fest, Thanksgiving starring 2023's Sexiest Man Alive, McDreamy himself- Patrick Dempsey. Listen up!

The Holdovers is a 2023 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa. Set in 1970, it follows a curmudgeonly history teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone the handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas break.

It premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023. It received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $15 million. It was also named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.

Thanksgiving is a 2023 American slasher film directed by Eli Roth and written by Jeff Rendell, based a story by the pair, who produced with Roger Birnbaum. Based on Roth's fictitious trailer of the same name from Grindhouse (2007), it is the third feature-length adaptation of a fictitious Grindhouse trailer after Robert Rodriguez's Machete (2010) and Jason Eisener's Hobo with a Shotgun (2011). The film stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon, and follows a small Massachusetts town that is terrorized by a killer in a John Carver mask around the Thanksgiving holiday.

Thanksgiving was theatrical released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on November 17, 2023. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $37 million worldwide. A sequel is in development.



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