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The Conversation: Drew Morton and Landon Palmer Discuss ‘Bad Santa’

The Conversation is a feature at PopOptiq bringing together Drew Morton and Landon Palmer in a passionate debate about cinema new and old. For their twelfth piece, they discuss Terry Zwigoff’s irreverent entry in the holiday canon, Bad Santa (2003). DREW’S TAKE Re-watching the theatrical cut of Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa (2003) for the first time since its release, I …

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‘Bad Words’ an intermittently funny would-be nasty comedy with unearned heart

Bad Words Written by Andrew Dodge Directed by Jason Bateman USA, 2014 One of the mainstays of the holiday season is Chuck Jones’ masterful animated short adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which manages to both be a clever embrace of everything that Christmas embodies in its secular form and to be …

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