Year: 2013

Jim Henson’s The Christmas Toy

If you remember this movie, I’m sure you are going crazy right now. This is a movie that my parents recorded during Christmas one year and I watched it over and over and over again. It is the first movie I remember crying at and even months later in July (yes I was still watching this in July), I remember crying while watching it and telling my mom I had a headache because I didn’t want her to know I was crying because of the movie. I had a lot of “headaches” that year as my favourite movie Top Gun was brought into my life (I cried at Top Gun both for the Goose death scene and because of it’s overall awesomeness!) The plot is pretty simple, when no people are around, the toys come to life (so suck it Toy Story, got your storyline beat by over 10 years!). If the toys are caught out of the position that a person left them in, they will be frozen forever…basically they turn into what we …

The Greatest Action Story Ever Told

What would happen if a cybernetic organism (or Terminator) was sent back in time to protect Jesus? Well, back in the 90s, MadTV dared to answer this question and to this day, it is one of my favourite Mad TV/Christmas sketches ever. Enjoy. “Hasta la vista…baby Jesus”