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Tinseltown - The Holiday Movie Podcast

Jul 31, 2018

The Mayor and Colleen look at the fourth entry in Mickey Rooney's star-making franchise, "Love Finds Andy Hardy". A more accurate title would be "A Number of Entirely Physical Infatuations Find Andy Hardy, and he Doesn't Even Deserve That Much." Join us, as we attempt to distract ourselves from the charmless and...


Jul 24, 2018

Courtney returns to the Mayor's office to watch another damn Babes in Toyland movie, this time the 1961 Disney attempt. Courtney rewrites all the songs to be much better, the writers scrape the bottom of the nursery rhyme barrel, and we wonder when we're going to get Taffy in one of these. You know, Taffy? The Welshman?


Jul 16, 2018

The Mayor is joined by his sister Katie to discuss "The Family Man", an extremely Nicolas Cage movie which is like if A Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life had a really disappointing child. We discuss why we should all live in fear of Don Cheadle, Katie confronts her unreliable memory, and the Mayor asks for...


Jul 10, 2018

The Mayor is joined by real-life movie critic and Christmas film expert Alonso Duralde to discuss Scrooge, which is certainly not the worst thing Leslie Bricusse has ever done. We discuss why people keep putting Albert Finney in musicals, we are charmed by 70s movie lighting, we examine the state of Albert...


Jul 3, 2018

The Mayor is joined by independent comics artist Scott Ziolko to discuss "Bad Moms' Christmas", a movie which even we, a good dad and a childless mayor, can tell was written by guys. Remember, every time we accidentally sound like we're reducing these women to stereotypes, that's actually the movie. We're trying our...