Crimmas Twitch Steam! TODAY 11AM PACIFIC! (Patreon)

It's Crimmas season, so that means it's time for our annual holiday film fest! Hurray! My next weekend / holidays themselves are slammed so the stream will be TODAY at 11am pacific time!

Also, next week we may be doing a little surprise treat during a couple weeknights where we show James Cameron films because the doofy brash man FINALLY has another film in theaters and I want to talk about why like his workman-like approach to classic filmmaking! But more on that later!

For now, let's go to the X-Mas line-up. As always the stream will be happening on https://www.twitch.tv/filmcrithulk - Enjoy! <3

CRIMMAS LINE UP! (all times Pacific / subject to change)

1100 - Pre roll

1115a - Meet Me In St. Louis - It's been aaaaaaages since I've seen this Judy Garland / Vincente Minelli classic. But it's responsible for giving us three unforgettable songs (though one we may want to forget) and get ready for big Tootie vibes.

110p - Rise of The Guardians - Peter Ramsay has been one of those great professional guiding hands that's touched so many varied classics as a storyboard artist that you wouldn't believe it. We're talking Independence Day, Men In Black, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, Cast Away, A.I. Panic Room, Minority Report, and Adaptation among others. This work naturally put him in the realm of animation where soon enough he'd co-direct a little masterpiece we all adore called Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. But just before that was the criminally under-seen 2012 film Rise of The Guardians, which was a mad-cap, inventive take on holiday icons going, like, full adventure story. Can't wait for first time folks to see.

250p - Black Nativity - I haven't seen this one! But I love director Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou, Talk To Me, and Harriet) and really want to see what she does with this one. It's based on a Langston Hughes play!

425p - Carol - Gah, what a film. This intimate, understated Todd Haynes work about interiority and longing already feels like a new classic, Christmas timeliness or otherwise. I can't wait to rewatch <3

625p - The Last Boy Scout - I think I put this after Carol as a joke at first, but now I'm obsessed with the tonal whiplash that will ensue. Are there much better Shane Black scripted films? Of course. Does this barely qualify as a Christmas film outside of a reference and his retroactive insistence he wrote it as one before Scott sanded the edges? Also, of course. But I really wanted to shake things up with the film that reflects Black's over-the-top 90's coke era like none other. This film is BONKERS. And I felt like some bonkers.

810p - The Apartment - Why don't we just sit down to enjoy one of the best films ever? Billy Wilder's heartbreaking, sharp, and unforgettable film needs little to be said about it. The work itself will speak volumes.

1015pm - The Silent Partner - THIS is the one I'm most excited about people discovering if they've never seen it. This grimy little 1978 thriller has got a hot-as-hell Elliott Gould, a gun-wielding Santa, and it was made off Canadian tax credits! Huzzuh!

1205am - Secret Screening #1 - Because you've been naughty!

145am - Secret Screening #2 - Because you've been nice!

<3HULK