Nick’s Flixmas: Gremlins
Have you ever seen The Hole? It’s the worst. It attempts to be a throwback to campy comedy horror, a style Joe Dante ...
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Nick’s Flixmas: Home Alone
Home Alone is a sad, sad movie. With its Christmas setting making the content of the film even more depressing, Home Alone should ...
Nick’s Flixmas: Scrooged
Day eight of Nick’s Flixmas takes us through our second A Christmas Carol flick, Scrooged, an adaptation of the story starring Bill Murray. ...
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Nick’s Flixmas: The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppets have had a few Christmas specials over the years: It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, A Muppet Family Christmas, and ...
Nick’s Flixmas: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation may not be my favorite Vacation (that honor goes to Vegas Vacation), it’s still pretty damn funny. Now that ...
Nick’s Flixmas: The Polar Express
Why is The Polar Express special? Is it the motion captured animation? Probably. It’s the first film I can remember that promoted itself ...
Nick’s Flixmas: Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Day six of Nick’s Flixmas (thanks for sticking in there!) brings us to the last, and my favorite, Rankin/Bass film, Nestor, The Long-Eared ...
Nick’s Flixmas: Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
Day seven of Nick’s Flixmas (nineteen more days to go!) takes us on a run through Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Over the ...
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Nick’s Flixmas: The Little Drummer Boy
Day five of Nick’s Flixmas brings us to the first Rankin/Bass animated Christmas special, The Little Drummer Boy. As the company’s first, Drummer ...
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Nick’s Flixmas: The Year Without a Santa Claus
Day four of Nick’s Flixmas continues this little Santa kick I’m on with another Rankin/Bass special, The Year Without a Santa Claus. This ...
First Peabody & Sherman trailer has some little girl too
Peabody’s Improbable History was one of my favorite segments from when I caught reruns of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show at three in ...
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Nick’s Flixmas: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Day three of our December event, Nick’s Flixmas, bring us to my third favorite Rankin/Bass film, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. Why ...