In a castle of pain, on a throne of blood, the Mayor and special guest Matt Rowbotham of AAlgar productions take a look at the New Year's Eve adjacent Ghostbusters 2, a movie which no one wanted to do, and which seems to actively resent the success of its franchise.

Tinseltown Guest Month returns, this time not even pretending that it isn't going to be longer than a month! Our first guest is Mark "Bob" Boszko, and he's here to talk about Shane Black's debut directorial offer, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", a neo-noir modern masterpiece.

It's our first redo of one of the old solo episodes here, as the Mayor and Courtney take a second look at the extraordinarily boring biopic "Squanto: A Warrior's Tale".

The Mayor learns a harsh lesson about choosing movies to review based on how funny the titles of their sequels are as he and his brother look at the British franchise starter "Nativity!"

The Mayor and Colleen take a look at the Christmas-displaced 1960s beach movie/band infomercial "Get Yourself a College Girl", which contains a whole bunch of musical acts and a light sprinkling of racism so blatant and baffling that we didn't even realize it at first.

Just a heads up, there's some audio errors in this episode. There's also some discussion of how sexual assault is poorly used in horror movies, so be forewarned. The Mayor and Emily review the incompetent paint-by-numbers slasher flick "Silent Night, Deadly Night", a movie which, paradoxically, seems more aware than most of the misogyny that motivates real life serial killers, and yet is itself massively misogynist. So... yay.

The Mayor and Robbie watch another Rankin-Bass joint. This time it's The Year Without a Santa Claus, which is cheap, repetitive, and fun as hell. We get really mad at Becky, Chip, Skip, and Kipper, and also at Bill Cosby, because we're still thinking about Ghost Dad.

The Mayor and Justin discuss Jack Frost, a 1979 Rankin-Bass joint that combines the lazy surrealism of a by the numbers TV Christmas special with the sloppy worldbuilding of a Xanth novel.

The Mayor and Anton go international once again, this time stopping off in Hungary for the obnoxiously adorable romcom "The Shop Around the Corner", discussing such topics as which character may or may not be a gigolo, why romance movies from 1940 make us nervous, and how much we love Peppy. Ah, Peppy. See Tinseltown's own Colleen Lis in the musical adaptation of this movie, She Loves Me! colleenlis.com for more info!

The Mayor and Courtney examine "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", a movie which only vaguely counts as Christmas, but it's based on a childhood favorite book of ours, and frankly, after four Babes in Toylands, we deserve a treat.