Mashley at the Movies

Jim Varney's character of Ernest P. Worrell is a uniquely 1980s creation, someone who a lot of younger people today may not have heard of. We enjoyed revisiting the character with Garret, in this Christmas-themed movie. Thank you for joining us on another journey through 12 holiday-themed films!

It's Christmas Eve, and so it seemed like the right time to present our episode about a 2024 animated film that Rachel introduced us to, The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland. You can click below to listen!

Marianne is back with us to talk about an underrated 1991 film, All I Want for Christmas . You can click below to listen to the episode. 

A lesbian couple's relationship  is strained when one of them goes to the other's family home for Christmas, and they have to pretend that they're straight. Ryan joins us to discuss Happiest Season , as our 12 Days of Christmas series continues. 

It's another 12 Days of Christmas episode. Ashley & Matt talk about the 2020 Lifetime movie Feliz NaviDAD . Get it? DAD? Because Mario Lopez plays a dad. Anyway, you can click below to listen.

The unhappy daughter of a divorced couple wants to see them back together. The dad (Errol Flynn) wants to see his daughter for Christmas, but he has to get by her mom/his ex-wife (Eleanor Parker() first. Marianne joins us again, this time to talk about the 1946 film, Never Say Goodbye .

We return to the world of Nick & Nora Charles, as Will McKinley joins us again to talk about After the Thin Man . Part of the movie takes place around New Year's Eve, so... here we go!

We're shaking it up with today's  12 Days of Christmas   episode! Sean (our resident horror expert) is back to discuss a low-budget 1980s slasher called   The Dorm That Dripped Blood . We chose it because it's purportedly set during the holidays, but... well, it's about as Christmassy as a thing that isn't very Christmassy. You can click below to listen.

Marianne joins us to talk about the 2017 feature The Man Who Invented Christmas . You can click below to listen to today's episode.

Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? The answer to that is: yes. Sean joins us to talk about this well-liked 1990s stop motion classic.

As 12 Days of Christmas continues, we land on an inevitable Hallmark movie. Rachel joins us to talk about Sugarplummed .

Our annual 12 Days of Christmas series returns! Will McKinley joins us to kick things off with The Thin Man . Much of this 1934 classic is set during Christmastime, and we're treated to William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. We follow along as they become embroiled in the case of a missing person. Or is it murder? More episodes about holiday films to come!

In We're No Angels , Humphrey Bogart leads a stellar cast about a jail break that takes place just before Christmas on Devil's Island. Soon, the hearts of three hardened criminals are melted by a family who welcomes them into their home. Will McKinley returns to discuss this 1955 classic, on our final 12 Days of Christmas episode. Thank you for joining us on this holiday sojourn! 

Ryan joins us for today's 12 Days of Christmas episode! It's set in a working class town in 1983, and the centerpiece is a family preparing their annual Christmas Eve dinner, known as the titular Feast of the Seven Fishes. You can listen to the episode by clicking below.

Aaron joins us again to talk about another holiday film. This one is set in December, as a motley crew of actors with barely two shillings to rub together attempt to put on a Christmas production of Hamlet . We'd never heard of A Midwinter's Tale until Aaron suggested it, and we're glad he did. Click on the link below to listen to our latest 12 Days of Christmas episode.

Zoe (one of the survivors of the first Yule Log ) is back, and can't seem to stop living in a horror movie (or a Hallmark parody film). The flaming, killer yule log is back, and the sequel is just as wacky as the original. We had fun discussing this new movie.

Holly Hunter plays a woman whose life is in disarray as she flies home to her family for Christmas. Home for the Holidays has a great cast and a unique authenticity to it, and Matt & Ashley talk about it in this episode of our 12 Days of Christmas series.

David Niven is a bishop, Loretta Young is his wife, and Cary Grant is an angel who arrives ostensibly to help out the bishop, but in actuality seems more interested in getting to know his wife. Sean is back with us, and we had a lot of fun talking back the 1947 holiday film The Bishop's Wife . 

Rachel is back with us to talk about another Christmas movie! This time, we discuss The Santa Summit .

A childless couple manages to avoid their families during the holidays, except this year they end up having no choices. With divorced parents, that means... wait for it... four Christmases! Aaron joins us to talk about this Reese Witherspoon-Vince Vaughn holiday rom-com.