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In the 80s, MTV was awesome.  They played tons of videos of music you actually wanted to hear, at least if you were me.  Michael Jackson and Madonna were on heavy rotation, but it wasn’t the same song over and over again ad nauseum (…

I’m the kind of person who finds it very easy to get lost in fiction.  Books and movies both.  I live in my head a lot of the time anyway, so when I read or watch something that I find very engaging, the world around me disappears.&n…

When Harry Met Sally stands tall as my second favorite romantic comedy of all time (my number 1 pick being Moonstruck), with everything being a solid 10 in each and every department. I would not even know how to begin tallying the total number of ti…

As childless adults living far from our family members, Christmases at Chez Macey are pretty chill nowadays.  That’s not to say we don’t commit full force to the Christmas spirit; both John and I are huge fans of the holidays. …

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas is a surprisingly philosophical little holiday special.  Of course, that’s nothing I would have considered when I was a little kid watching it for the first few times.  Back then, I was respondi…

Remakes have been around for as long as humans have walked the Earth, and I like to imagine that even prior to the arrival of humankind, amoebas and other life passed around the same stories as well.  Storytelling is in our DNA, whether you are…

In his quixotic quest to gift people with the greatest Christmas ever, Clark Griswold and I are soulmates.  There is no better feeling than the warmth you feel in the pit of your stomach while fondly looking back on your family holiday memories…

Yippee ki yay, and then you can fill in the blank.  Roy Rogers originated the phrase (the first part, that is) back when my parents were around the age that I was when I first saw Die Hard. I have never seen anything with Roy Rogers, but I will…

Directed by John Hughes at the height of his powers and starring Steve Martin and John Candy in their 1980s prime, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is the ultimate comedic roast of the true horrors of holiday travel.  I personally have experienc…

Ghostbusters showed up on the scene like gangbusters when I was a kid, and I was thrilled to be part of the zeitgeist.  The video for the Ray Parker Jr. song “Ghostbusters” was on MTV all the time and everywhere you went parents and…