Monthly Archive: December 2024

We Wish You A Turtle Christmas

In anticipation Christmas in two weeks, it’s officially time for the Christmas Countdown, a daily posting of a brief review of a strange Christmas movie, short, cartoon, whatever, that deserves a bit of attention. Today we’ll start off with a pop culture relic that will leave you with many more questions than answers, We Wish You A Turtle Christmas! In case it wasn’t clear, this is a live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Christmas Special from waaaaaay back in 1993. There’s not a lot here, considering this is only a 22 minute special, but there are a couple Christmas carols with a ‘unique’ spin on their lyrics. For reasons unknown to me, people kept trying to jam songs into the TMNT, like with the Coming Out of Our Shells live theatrical production, which I swear is real and not a fever dream I had. I blame Vanilla Ice and that catchy Go Ninja Go song.

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Smile 2, I Saw The TV Glow, and AFRAID

Before we dig into the Holiday season I wanted to do a quick recap of some movies I’ve seen recently. These aren’t going to be too in depth but I wanted to get them out of my head before it’s time to focus on the best that Christmas cinema has to offer. As always, I’m going to do my best to avoid spoilers, but if you’re really curious about something in one of these movies just leave a comment and we can discuss it there! Let’s start with the biggest of these three releases, Smile 2!

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