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Ho! Ho! Ho! And a metric ton of egg nog for everyone! To end the 4th Season of Speaking Cinema, we're giving the audience something special; three movies for the price of one. Its a Christmas extravaganza...with our usual blend of wit, commentary and toliet humor.

First up, Anthony and his friend Cody tackle perhaps the most beloved Christmas classic of all time, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Topics include Jimmy Stewart's PTSD, small town America in the 1940s and (of course) late stage capitalism!

Next up, the Turner-Seccafico family talk about Ron Howard's adaptation of the Grinch. Adam and Tasha go into a number of topics including Tasha's relationship to the film, Jim Carey being awesome and how much Cindy Lou Who loves The Grinch's shenanigans.

Finally, the king hath returned, as Jon discusses the culturally omnipresent film The Nightmare Before Christmas with found of the podcast, Andrew Schwarz. Listen as Jon and Andrew grapple with why the film resonates with culture at large, discuss what goes into a great musical and learn just how hard it was to animate Oogie-Boogie.

Prepare to have you stocking stuffed this holiday season because Speaking Cinema is going so hard...that one of our hosts might succumb to alcohol poisoning. Happy Holidays everyone.

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Correction on The Nightmare Before Christmas - Jon and Andrew refer to the film as an independent production, however it was produced by Skellington Productions, which was a joint venture between Tim Burton and Henry Selick, that received financial support from The Walt Disney Corporation via Touchstone Pictures, which was a pseudonym production label for films geared towards darker subject matter and more mature audiences.

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Institutional failure, rampant corruption and the scariest grandpa you'll ever meet...and maybe the most fun film we've covered so far. This week, the boys tackle Michael Mann's self assured directorial debut; Thief. We dive into subjects like Mann's painstaking attention to detail, James Caan's electric performance and debate the failings of the criminal justice system. We give you some ABC type information this week on Speaking Cinema.

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And now it's Anthony's turn to have an existential breakdown. This week on Speaking Cinema, the boys fell for it again. What was supposed to be a fun anime about two young lovers turns into a deep look into global warming, human sacrifice and whether or not mankind is capable of evolving to survive a cataclysmic event. But its ok. Why? Because Elon Musk can't make toast. This week on Speaking Cinema, Makoto Shinkai's Weathering with You

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Well, this is nice. Just a simple comedy about a farting...OH MY GOD WHY DO WE FEEL ALL THE FEELINGS?!? This week on Speaking Cinema, we dive into The Daniels' breakthrough film 'Swiss Army Man'. What we thought was going to be a breezy film about a farting corpse, turns into a full discussion about the meaning of life and what it means to be a humanist. Come for the film, stay for the existential crisis this week on Speaking Cinema.

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Happy Halloween everyone! We've finally reached the end of our horror series and we've decided to go out on a high note...by paying Adam's relatives a visit in beautiful Tromaville, NJ. This week, we subvert the slasher genre with the 1984 exploitation classic, The Toxic Avenger. Listen as the boys discuss the New York Grindhouse scene of the 70s and 80s, how a Yale alumni went on to become his generation's Roger Corman and the seedy politics of Regan's America (namely, Iran-Contra). Get ready to scream, laugh and question our sanity this week on Speaking Cinema.

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Do you like scary movies? The guys at Speaking Cinema do (even if one of them doesn't like this week's movie). This week, we take a hard look at Wes Craven's 1996 slasher deconstruction, Scream. Listen as Adam, Anthony and Jon discuss sensationalism in media, the performance of Matthew Lillard and why Scream was a necessary film in the arc of cinematic horror. Hope everyone enjoys part two of our Halloween Spook-tacular (we swear we're working on a better title).

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Speaking Cinema dives headfirst into the spooky season with one of the most influential films of the half century; John Carpenter's Halloween. This week, the boys talk about the slasher film master mold, horror fandom's brighter side and debate the merits of the virginal final girl trope. We've got a fun slate of films this October, so stick around for a scary good time this month on Speaking Cinema.

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Step right up and see a film as strange as it is touching. This week on Speaking Cinema, the boys tackle Pre-Code Hollywood, the birth of Exploitation Cinema, and a final image so powerful it moves one of the co-hosts to tears. This week, Tod Browning's Freaks.

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