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Non-Christmas Christmas Movies – First View Review of First Blood

January 12, 2022

Whenever you hear of a film with Rambo in the title, you’ll no doubt think of wall to wall violence, tidal waves of blood, and a soundtrack consisting mainly of gunshots, screams, and explosions. You may also think of bulging biceps as Rambo hauls back on the string of a bow so he can pick […]

Non-Christmas Christmas Films: Home Alone 2 – Lost in New York (1992)

December 30, 2021

It’s another Christmas, a year later, and young Kevin is lost again. I’m not sure if there’s some intensely bad parenting involved, or if the kid just attracts trouble, but so it goes. It’s basically Die Hard 2, with a ten-year-old, and everyone in-universe pretty much knows it. “Not again” is the theme, which I […]

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Classic Christmas Rewatch – Home Alone (1990)

December 25, 2021

So I’ve been thinking about my favorite Christmas movie category – the ones I call Non-Christmas Christmas Films. This fun category includes such classics as Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Gremlins. Iron Man 3. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I have a useful list going here. But in that post, I ask if Home Alone deserves […]

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Non-Christmas Christmas Movies – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

December 11, 2021

It seems odd, looking back on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from this side of the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — that it was touch and go whether or not Robert Downey Jr would get the lead role of Harry Lockhart. At the time, RDJ was considered to be quite toxic Robert […]

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RunPee’s Big Annual Christmas Movie Review List

December 23, 2020

Each year at RunPee we get a little closer to reviewing all the Christmas films — at least, all of the good and/or notorious ones that popular culture appreciates. One year I tried to take on some Hallmark Christmas movies and found I couldn’t quite go that far down the sickly sweet rabbithole, but that […]

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RunPee Weekly Newsletter 30th edition (December 9th, 2020)

December 9, 2020

The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. New Movie Review – Half Brothers A really great new movie in the theaters: Half Brothers exceeded expectations, especially since the trailers didn’t show you the depth of the movie. There was a lot […]

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Rewatch Review – The Long Kiss Goodnight

December 3, 2020

The Long Kiss Goodnight is a great film. It has action, thrills, humour, intrigue, suspense… everything! Geena Davis is gorgeous and believable as both the mumsy Samantha Caine and the deadly Charlie Baltimore. Confused? How about if I say that Sam Caine is an anagram of ‘amnesiac? Samuel L Jackson is brilliant as Mitch Hennessey, the […]

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Die Hard and Beyond: Are They Really Christmas Films?

December 1, 2020

There are films that are obviously Christmas films; they only make sense because they’re set at Christmas; it only feels right to watch them at Christmas; they belong to Christmas. And then there are films that are associated with Christmas and they are the ones there are arguments about. So… a Christmas film… or or […]

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Rewatch Movie Review – The Princess Bride (plus the top quotable quotes)

January 9, 2020

I know every quote in The Princess Bride. Many old geeks like me do. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen this classic spoof fantasy. I introduced it to my mother tonight. She enjoyed seeing all the well-known actors in their younger days, especially Fred Savage, who is so young here it hurts. And […]

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