The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

I missed this one when it first came out five years ago. We watched it, finally, last night. It was a lot of fun.

The film showed the connection to its roots, Home Alone, during the scene where the bartender’s aggression with the trio is stymied by the bar hostess when she dumps a pail of ice in front of him: he does one of Joe Pesci’s ‘slips and falls’ on his back, and I went “A-ha.”

Kurt Russell once played Elvis in a TV movie. In this film, he performs an Elvis Christmas song with the inmates of the Chicago jailhouse (rock). It’s the highlight of the show. His Elv-ishness is still going strong.

This version of Santa is the best one I’ve ever seen. I feel like rockin’ around our Christmas tree, this year. Merry Christmas, one and all.