I’ve fallen off in recent years but I used to watch V for Vendetta every November 5th
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The Long Kiss Goodnight is the best Christmas movie!
Peak Geena Davis kicks everybody's ass, especially Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the schnook sidekick.
Also, the book "A Night In the Lonesome October" is 31 chapters long. It's the diary of Jack the Ripper's talking dog. Jack is the hero, and the action concludes on a Halloween night with a full moon...
Roger Zelazny, author
Miss Congeniality, at the end of April.
Not every year, but when I remember.. I especially enjoy it if I can introduce someone else to it on that perfect date.
I like to kick off the Halloween season with Trick 'r Treat.
V for Vendetta on 5th of Nov
Lord of the Rings during Christmas time.
Nice. I always watch during the fall when the air turns crisp and I'll pair it with a hard apple cider.
Hobbitmaxxing
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell ~~it~~ the crispness in the air.
Christmas:
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Muppet Christmas Carol
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Nothing Like the Holidays
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The Snowman
Thanksgiving, not a movie, a song: Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant"
July: Independence Day
I also generally reread at some point in the summer Neal Stephenson's novel Zodiac
Samhain: Addams Family / Values, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Perhaps (in rotation) Shaun of the Dead, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys, Van Helsing, Corpse Bride, Army of Darkness
Yule: Die Hard, Hogfather (BBC), The Long Kiss Goodnight. Maybe Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, Trading Places.
Groundhog Day in October. Jk, early February is the yearly watch.
Not actually a movie, but, like all Germans, Dinner for One on December 31st
The worlds longest one line joke. Same procedure as every year.
Christmas Movies:
Paul
LOTR
Strictly Ballroom
Princess Bride
RoboCop is my go-to New Years Eve movie. If you press play at 22:58:25 on the Director's Cut, you should get within a second or so of synchronizing Clarence Boddicker's digital hand grenade countdown with midnight.
Die Hard (1) every Christmas.
I've shown The Snowman to my kids every December.
They started not wanting to, so one year I didn't, but then they came asking "can we watch the Snowman?" Hell yeah we can watch The Snowman.
New Year's - Strange Daze
Saint Patrick's Day - Boondock Saints
Easter - Mallrats; Life of Brian
4th of July - Jaws; Southland Tales
Halloween - Monster Squad
Thanksgiving - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; My Blue Heaven
Christmas - Die Hard; National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Boondock Saints is probably by all measures an objectively bad movie (which I don't think is a thing anyway) but goddamn do I love that movie.
It has been a minute since I've seen Southland Tales. What a trip! Time for another rewatch.
Stellar list overall too!
Halloween: Sleepy Hollow, Halloween 1 & 2
Christmas: Die Hard, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Ronin
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Prey
4th of July: Independence Day
Fantastic Mr. Fox in October/November
I read Hogfather around Christmas every year.
Have you seen the live action version of this?
Think the beeb did it as a two parter years ago
I put on childhood Christmas movies while wrapping Christmas presents, lol
Waterworld once every two years on the second Saturday in June.
Addams Family is a Halloween classic at my house. It’s so good.
I watched the traditional Russian NYE film one year, and it is hilarious.
Will look it up..
The Irony of Fate , a group of guys get drunk on NYE, their friend ends up in the wrong town.