Unfortunately for Anna she works in retail. This means she already has to deal with the looming threat of Christmas, as even now retail stores are beginning to shuffle Christmas themed merchandise onto the shelves, thus allowing the holiday’s yuletide reach to skip right past Thanksgiving, leapfrog Halloween and nestle right up next to Labor Day.

Luckily for her she has a totally righteous boyfriend. For our younger viewers righteous is not being used in a religious sense (though I would argue that I’m divine as well) but rather it is 80’s for 1337. But the point of this introduction is not about me claiming I rule, but by proving it. You see this week I decided to give Anna an early Christmas present.

(more…)

It is always tough to decide which film to review. I like to try and bounce between genres and styles as much as possible, thus making it ever more difficult for a readership to grow. But this week’s course correction is particularly challenging what with it following up an semi-pornographic documentary that just so happens is illegal to watch. How does one follow up contraband like that?

Why with a children’s movie! But I can’t just make it any children’s movie. I mean I do have some standards here. But what about a British stop-motion film that meshes live action with claymation? Doesn’t that sound tasty? Oh it is, and The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb is next week’s film.