Month: November 2025

Big Screen: Elfin, Etc.

Will Ferrell Aspergers the season with childish glee. Let’s honor that. (Not the musical treatments, that’s been done.)

The Wonder of Milton briefly reviews line in “Buddy the Elf What’s Your Favorite Color“. Rock.

Chance Alan turns up the AI to cover the sugary bases in the country rocker “12 Drops of Christmas.” I don’t get it.

The Classic Brown’s “Son of a Nutcracker” also recycles lines. Nice indie pop beat.

Some miscellanea while i gots you here…

Youth on Track treasures watching “The Nightmare Before Christmas Eve” but worries about the emotional trauma on the next day. Electronic pop.

“Chris Farren’s Disney’s Frozen” Carrib raps the sad tale of Olaf. Chris Warren  (feat. Anika Pyle & Sean Bonnette) play hard to work hard. Bookended by dad joke.

TV’s Kyle invokes “Shrek 2” as a Christmas time celebration. Bombastic showtune march.

Big Screen: Story Telling & more

‘A Christmas Story’ leaves me tired. But it inspires gifts, nostalgia, and larfs.

The whole Red Ryder yada yada thing has been done here before.

 Rod Kim has a personal reaction to the heartfelt scheming of the kid who needs something his parents won’t approve of in “Merry Christmas Ralphie“, a folk pop tale of woe.

John McCutcheon, hoever, overdoes the sentiment with the funny jug band behest: “Tommy Don’t Lick That Pipe“.

Running out of days, but TV shows need a glancing at, too.

Chris Isaak is watching “Christmas on TV” while missing his loved ones. It’s our theme summed up in honky tonk.

Was hepped to DJ John’s “The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown” years ago by Pete da Elf. This slipping and sampling is classic comedy car crashing.

Mirror Eyes belts out blues with “Out Of All The Charlie Browns In The World, I’m The Charlie Browniest“. No actual peanuts were harmed during the writing of this tribute.

“The Christmas Team” may not refer to TV shows any more than borrowing a theme song, but Chinese Tony Danza gives it all. Gasp.

“Remember When Gilbert Gottfried Was Santa Claus In An Episode of Billy and Mandy” asks Birthing Stirrups in a garage rock rattle.

The Not Fur Longs rerun HeMan cartoons with the odd “Christmas in Eternia” song that appeared one time in the ’70s. They fleshed out that ditty to indie epicness, stuttering all the while.

Big Screen: Vacationing

To recap that National Lampoon sequel, Positively Pat Sims uses AI to power up “A Griswold Christmas (Vacation)“. Easy listening pop sashays all over the place.

Bacio wonders “If These Walls Could Talk (A Behest of the Griswold Christmas House)” with twinkly country. Sympathetic.

Letters to Ash puts the punk to “Clark Griswold Saved Christmas“. It seems to look for the happy ending, but it is what it is. Not sure if that’s a BLUE ALERT or not.

Heath Not Keith also punks out to “A Griswold Christmas“. Snide, yet a bit antic.

Big Screen: Die Already

Clark & Clark argue “Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?‘ but settle on contradictory byplay. The ragtime pop adds to the frivolity.

“Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?” is supposedly by Colin Andrews, but smells like AI. Cowboy pop doesn’t help the case.

“Die Hard is a Christmas Movie” sinks deep into Rickman sampling, but then jazz-raps the message with winsome wiles. Snazzy.

Swamp Ass and The Meat Sweats flip the table with the garage punk screamer “Die Hard is Not a Christmas Movie“. This time without feeling, please.

“I Just Wanna Watch Die Hard Tonight” rocks Classic Pat. Vim and vigor detected.

Not as many ask whether ‘2’ was a Christmas movie. Axis of Awesome reviews the plot in “Lee’s Christmas Story” for your consideration. Spoken in anger.

Borrowing from ‘Drummer Boy’–but the Bing/Bowie verzh–Insane Ian & Bonecage really deliver on “Die Hard Christmas“, which consists mostly of borrowed lines. Still works. [Beware Patreon plea at end.]

Big Screen: Die Anyway

AI returns with cowboy metal, that is Hillbilly Hellfire presents “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie” with gusto, if not panache.

An AI duo-some from Rise of Aquarius, “A Die Hard Christmas: Songs for the Holidays” begins with flute-laden EZ listening falsetto, then pivots into ADHD elctropop. Working hard for you.

Josh Reyes submits his piano recital “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie” without apology. Yep, even honest amateurs outclass AI.

The DVD Guy has little business jazz-rapping “Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie“, but he did. So here we are. Beware: scat included.

John B unrolls retro ’80s industrial metal with “A Die Hard Christmas (Yippee Ki Yay it’s Christmas Day)“. Okay, that’s fun.

Toby Danger brings the parody (‘All I Want’) with the off key “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie Too“. Snobby Christmas movie geeks get their due.

Big Screen: Die Izzit?

Certainly one of the mysteries of the Magi: is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie seems to provoke as much songestry as how much is Santa magical? Ergo…

The Holderness Family is still chugging along strong with their ‘Beginning to Look’ parody “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie“. Not much of a debate from this mom and dad, just irreconcilable differences.

Slowing down the roll, Litany (Beth Cornell · Matt McLuckie) takes silly sides in the soft pop “Die Hard (Is a Christmas Film)“. Sounds more like a drinking game.

AI smith Words2Music metals out “Christmas at Nakatomi Plaza” with many lines and judgments. I mean, BLUE ALERT! That’s a contrast from the previous entry, that’s what that is.

Jason’s AI Generated Songs (Jason Nutter) tries a gentle country ballad with “Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas Movie“. Is it a romance, though? Hmmm. [Given the fun of AI, he also delivers the same song with big band, honky tonk, jazz band lounge. Really.)

Seth McFarland’s Family Guy takes a ‘Silent Night’ stab at “Die Hard (An Original Christmas Song)“. It’s short.

Alfie Boe & The Kingdom Choir holler out their gospelly “Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie” to classical bombast, so it presents its evidence forcefully.

Big Screen: Die Goody

It’s going to take a few days to sort out all the ‘Die Hard’ as a Xmas movie business. We’ve been down this road before, so let’s not repeat any of our previous selections.

Might as well give David Goody his due. His musical “A Good Christmas to Die Hard” still has a few songs we haven’t shared.

‘Carol of the Bells’ gets the yippie-ki-yai treatment in “Carol of Melon Farming Bells“. This one is so gentle that the tagline profanity gets a Spoonerism euphemism.

No one calls it “Helsinki Syndrome” is a silly side eye reference to snide movie lines.

‘Angels We have Heard’ becomes “Agent Johnson Must be High” as a rap piece.

“Blow the Roof” is more quick filler, with sfx.

The outro, “Ode to Joy” merely plays music. Must be why i haven’t shared all.

As a postscript, “Sinatra Nearly Starred in Die Hard” peeks behind the production to discover who WASN’T in the starring role back in 1988. Jazzy pop.

Big Screen: Home Some More

Copping the intransigent attitude that somehow explains the holes in the plot, The Benefit & The Chinese Firekites unload “Kevin’s Lament (Did Anyone Order Me a Plain Cheese?)“. These are the warning signs set to tinkly pop.

“I Made My Family Disappear” is one of the big lines in the film. Vista Blue gets retro surf with the storyline. This is sock hop material, babies.

Colburn Sound Express pinpoints the struggling orphan’s checklist with fun kidsong bluegrass in their “I Made My Family Disappear“.

“I Made My Family Disappear” is more retro surf from The Home Alones that tries on lines from all across the production. Aaaaahh!

The Wet Bandits force death metal into their “I Made My Family Disappear“. Lord help us.

One of my faves adjacent to the ‘Home Alone’ nonsense is when Jason Bojangals encroaches on Taylor Swift with his “Blank Space and Home Alone” parody. I might be insane, indeed.

“Kevin’s Lament to the Tree” sets lines to the song by, again, Colburn Sound Express. This is his emotional peripeteia, so you can have your feels. Symphonic pop.

Big Screen: Home

The number one movie for three months 1990-91, this madcap comedy promotes child abuse and stand-your-ground sociopathy–but in a funny way. Good times.

To remind you of this unlikely comedy, Axis of Awesome retells “Benny’s Christmas Story“. Spoken word, tongue in cheek, because… Christmas.

This is such a honking big cultural icon that DJ Primo samples only a couple memorable lines into head banging EDM to get “Home Alone @ Christmas“. Add this to your dance playlist.

Heat maps returns with a greasy pop rendition of the “Home Alone” ordeal. Special notice is given how long The Wet Bandits will be locked up.

The Not Fur Longs celebrate with holidays with desultory indie, but then tangent off into Kevin praise with “Make It Home Alone“. Mixed messages.

Monster and The Family hard metal their respects with “Home Alone Kevin“, an introductory, and “Home Alone the Plan“, concerning the besiegement. Anger arrangement.

Fountain Dew recount the plot again for us, with hooting and hollering and appreciations out the pop song. “Home Alone” is the greatest Christmas movie.

Big Screen: Wonderful, I See

Watching ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ on the telly is a tradition many use to herald in the season. Beats throwing yourself off a bridge, i reckon.

Chad Serhal w/She Does is Magic whistles and ukes up the joint with the unfrilly folk of “Christmas“. They watch it, and i daresay attempt to achieve it.

Drugged out childishness with “Dancing Under The Mistletoe” chimed over by Vaginals. Never have the ordinary chores of Christmas sounded so bizarre.

Robert Bergeron gets garage carried away with “My Christmas With You“. Hollering and banging on the geetar, they really do watch the broadcast over and over.

Chainsaw McGee conducts what sounds like seagulls over “Dreck the Halls“, a sorrowful take on the plot points of our current picture. It’s Something Awful.

At the “Holiday Inn” Bryan White softly pops about being stuck, and there’s some movie on HBO. Suddenly Christmas isn’t so bad.

Wanting to watch this old rerun is a come-on for Danielle Cormier who feels “Merrier With You” despite the ASMR pop.