Foster on Film

Forty years after Michael Myers went on his one and only killing spree, a pair of stereotypically douchie podcasters get access in Michael in the asylum he’s been locked up in all this time. Because we know it is a stupid thing to do, they bring with them his mask. Soon after, the bus transferring

A businessman (Steven Weber) must re-live Christmas Eve twelve times to learn the true meaning of the season. Quick Review: Was there a need to combine It’s a Wonderful Life with Groundhog Day?  The first has been copied far too many times and the second pretty much covered the reliving-a-day genre.  This isn’t an artistic

When Sheriff Andy Taylor is forced by the town Scrooge, Ben Weaver (Will Wright), to hold a moonshiner in jail over Christmas, Andy (Andy Griffith), Barney (Don Knotts), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), Ellie (Elinor Donahue), and Opie (Ronny Howard) move their Christmas celebration to the jail.  25 min. So many Christmas shows try for warmth

With his sister hanging on the Christmas tree, the Angry Kid (voice: Darren Walsh) is filmed giving the Queen’s traditional Christmas address, but he can’t get it right.  2 min. The Angry Kid series of short-shorts have gotten a wide distribution via the Internet.  While you can pay for them (a DVD is available), I

An alcoholic, self-loathing, store Santa (Billy Bob Thornton) and a mastermind dwarf (Tony Cox) rob department stores at Christmastime. Here is a film that assaults the overripe icons of Christmas, laying low the sickly-sweet sacred cows with a “take no prisoners” roar—except it doesn’t.  It’s more like a troop of girl scouts knocking politely at

Rich, cruel, and greedy Daffy Duck misuses his employees and ignores the true meaning of Christmas.  I think we all know what happens next: three spirits of Christmas show up to compel him to change his ways.  46 min. A Christmas Carol?  Again?  I like the book.  Really, I do.  And several of the movies. 

At Christmastime, in a northern Alaskan town where everyone is crazy from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), an old serial-killer-turned-barber (Malcolm McDowell) is back to his old tricks. Never quite hitting its stride as a comedy or as a thriller, The Barber is nonetheless an entertaining and well made confusion.  The murders are nothing special and

Beavis and Butt-head (voice: Mike Judge) watch some videos, read a few letters, and star in two shorts: Huh-Huh-Humbug! and It’s A Miserable Life.  In the first, Beavis fantasizes he’s the manager at a burger joint and is visited by three ghosts.  In the second, Butt-head is shown what the world would be like if

Three old men (Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith and Harry Carey), with nothing to do for Christmas, toss three wallets into the snow, hoping that whoever finds them will return them and stay for dinner.  It works in two cases, reeling in a young girl and a down-on-his-luck Texan (Richard Carlson) who find each other

The Grim Reaper (voice: Greg Eagles) takes Billy (voice: Richard Steven Horvitz) and Mandy (voice: Grey DeLisle) to the North Pole to prove that Santa Claus exists.  But once there, they find that Santa (voice: Gilbert Gottfried) has become a vampire.  Leaving Billy with Mrs. Claus (voice: Carol Kane), Grim and Mandy journey to the

The trials and tribulations of a pleasant, silly “every-woman” (Renée Zellweger) as she attempts to lose weight, smoke less, and find a man who isn’t her boss (Hugh Grant).  It couldn’t possibly be that rude Darcy (Colin Firth), could it? Quick Review: Not a romantic comedy, but a comedy about romance, Bridget Jones’s Diary is

Scrooge (a.k.a. Yosemite Sam) is up to his normal skin flint ways.  His treatment of Bob Cratchit (Porky Pig) is this the last straw for Bugs Bunny, who declares, “This means war!”  Grabbing a sheet, Bugs pretends to be a ghost to scare Scrooge into some Christmas spirit.  8 min. The Looney Tunes, do Dickens,