Episode 45- The Movie Squad Returns for Christmas ft. Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke and Jonathan Bartsch Wrestling

The movie squad featuring my good friends Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke, and Jonathan Bartsch return to Wrestling. This time we talk Christmas movies from Elf to It’s a Wonderful Life to the Grinch, and of course we engage in the age long debate, Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Along the way we wrestle with Gospel themes in various Christmas movies, and we discuss Marxist
themes of Elf.

 

Resources:

About “Workism”: The
Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable - The Atlantic

The “Uncanny Valley” as seen in Polar Express:

The
uncanny valley of Robert Zemeckis film 'Polar Express' (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

The
Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori - IEEE Spectrum



For more from the Movie Squad:


Episode 41- Summer 2023 Movie Critique Roundtable ft. Sterling Harer, Andrea Maikke and Jonathan Bartsch - Wrestling | Podcast on Spotify