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[29 Nov 2004 | 9 Comments | ]

It’s officially after Thanksgiving, which means that my [insert preferred Winter holiday celebration] season has officially begun both in my real life and here at MCFTR…

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[23 Dec 2003 | No Comment | ]
Santa With Muscles (1997)

When the subject of Christmas movies comes up, many names immediately come to mind. Ebeneezer Scrooge. George Bailey. Ralphie Parker. Blake Thorne…

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[22 Dec 2003 | 3 Comments | ]

Look, I told you all many years ago that I love the Muppets, and there ain’t a goddamn thing you can do about it. And my love for Muppets goes far beyond the Kermits and Fozzies and Piggys that appeared on The Muppet Show

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[15 Dec 2003 | No Comment | ]

Warning! If you are a smoker and wish to see this film, you may want to wait until it hits DVD or see it at your local cinema and drafthouse. If not, you will be seriously jonesing for a cigarette within the first 20 minutes…

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[9 Dec 2003 | 3 Comments | ]

Over the last few years, I have been privileged to watch the professional growth of Atlanta’s preeminent film reviewer. I have watched his ideas hatch from simple scrawlings on random pieces of paper and grow into first a free Homestead site, and eventually into the pinnacle of professionalism that you are all now enjoying…

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[4 Dec 2003 | No Comment | ]

It’s only a few weeks until Christmas, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to break out the Muppets! And if you’ve been following MCFTR for any period of time, then you’re probably painfully aware that we (except, of course, for Terry, the heartless bastard that he is) have sort of a soft spot for those little Jim Henson creations…

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[1 Dec 2003 | No Comment | ]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The Christmas season doesn’t officially start until the day after Thanksgiving. Sure, ELF was out in theaters three weeks ago, but I purposefully didn’t see or review it until after Turkey Day had come and gone, simply out of principle…

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[24 Dec 2002 | One Comment | ]

The original tagline to the film that winds up atop our Retarded Christmas Top Ten is “A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas”…

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[23 Dec 2002 | No Comment | ]

Most people, when recalling Christmas movies, tend to rattle off IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE as the one that immediately springs to mind. Not that there’s any problem with that…

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[20 Dec 2002 | One Comment | ]

They say that in the world of “Star Trek”, there’s a rule of thumb when it comes to the movies: The even-numbered ones are way better than the odd-numbered ones. It looks like there’s a similar vibe going on with the “Vacation” franchise of films, except in the reverse…