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Top 10 Christmas Movies for Cynics

Tired of It's a Wonderful Life? Sick of White Christmas? Here is About.com's list of ten Christmas movies that are guaranteed NOT to fill you with the holiday spirit.

It seems like it could be a feeder list for our X(mas) factor movies - unChristmasy Christmas movies. (We reviewed Brazil already, after all.)

Be sure to send in your list of favorite unChristmasy Christmas movies to theysaidmoviereviews@gmail.com. We'll publish them here!

Cinematic Titanic's Santa Claus Captures the Martians

Cinematic Titanic, a feature-lenth movie-riffing show, has a new installment just in time for the holidays, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. (The Cinematic Titanic comics are present in silhouette, superimposed over the picture, coming up with snappy jokes every second or so.)

After watching, don't forget to select your favorite scene for your holiday e-cards.

[ via boing boing ]

Eight reasons to love National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

I re-watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation recently to see if my eight-year-old son could watch it. It was PG-13 but I couldn't remember why it got the -13 rating. HINT: Language. (So he's going to have to wait for this one, unfortunately.)

But Mental Floss's magazine blog had some interesting trivia about the movie in a post from last year that I didn't know:

• The assistant director of Christmas Vacation, Frank Capra III, is the grandson of the legendary Frank Capra, who directed It’s a Wonderful Life. (Russ is watching that movie on TV when his grandparents arrive.)
• Cousin Eddie went on to star in his own made-for-TV Christmas Vacation - Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure.
• Aunt Bethany (“Is your house on fire, Clark?”) is played by Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. Christmas Vacation was her last movie.