“Only I didn’t say fudge… I said THE WORD. The big one. The queen mother of all dirty words… the F-dash-dash-dash WORD!!!!”
A CHRISTMAS STORY(1983) is screening at Das Bevo (4749 Gravois Ave, St. Louis, MO 63116) December 8th. Grab a bite and a beer. Kitchen opens at 6, movie starts at 7pm. Festive attire is encouraged! Cost is $10 per ticket. Tickets can be purchased HERE. A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
I used an air rifle I got one Christmas growing up, but I never had a mail-in decoder ring which required me to consume mass quantities of Ovaltine, I never ran into bullies with yellow eyes, and I never took a dare to stick my tongue to an aluminum pole in the middle of winter. Of all the holiday films that have been released in the last 34 years, did anyone envision that the sleepy low budget film from 1983, generically titled A CHRISTMAS STORY, would be at the top of the almost everyone’s list? It actually bombed when first released in theater (though I saw it there twice) but has developed such an enormous following over the years, mostly through cable TV airings, that it probably is #1 on more favorite Christmas movies list than anything. Who would have thought Bob Clark, director of terrifying low-budget horror movies such as BLACK CHRISTMAS and DEATHDREAM (as well as the raunchy comedy hit PORKY’S) could capture such an innocent and nostalgic slice of life?
A CHRISTMAS STORY captured the idealism and–yes—the sadism of being a kid. Childhood is a crazy mix of hero worship, toy envy, survival of the fittest, daily fear of something, extreme innocence, and the desire to be treated as a grown-up without having to actually put up with being one. A CHRISTMAS STORY captures all these elements with sardonic poignancy. One of the greatest things about A CHRISTMAS STORY is ‘the Old Man’ played by Darren McGavin (61 when the film was made), who is constantly busy throughout the film, whether it’s battling the #&#@! furnace or trying to get his #&#@! car started or any other number of task that he becomes occupied with and cause him to cuss. He has very little dialog with Ralphie, yet it is he who in the end gets him his BB gun.
A CHRISTMAS STORY has a kind of timelessness that makes such a beloved piece of art, one we watch over and over and never get tired of it. Now you’ll have the chance to shoot your eye out and see A CHRISTMAS STORY in all its big screen glory and with an audience of fellow merrymakers when it plays 7:00pm Wednesday December 8th at Das Bevo
“Only I didn’t say fudge… I said THE WORD. The big one. The queen mother of all dirty words… the F-dash-dash-dash WORD!!!!”
It’s Christmas in July whenA CHRISTMAS STORYscreens at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL ( 252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday July 27th. $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions) Lobby opens at 6pm.
I used an air rifle I got one Christmas growing up, but I never had a mail-in decoder ring which required me to consume mass quantities of Ovaltine, I never ran into bullies with yellow eyes, and I never took a dare to stick my tongue to an aluminum pole in the middle of winter. Of all the holiday films that have been released in the last 34 years, did anyone envision that the sleepy low budget film from 1983, generically titled A CHRISTMAS STORY, would be at the top of the almost everyone’s list? It actually bombed when first released in theater (though I saw it there twice) but has developed such an enormous following over the years, mostly through cable TV airings, that it probably is #1 on more favorite Christmas movies list than anything. Who would have thought Bob Clark, director of terrifying low-budget horror movies such as BLACK CHRISTMAS and DEATHDREAM (as well as the raunchy comedy hit PORKY’S) could capture such an innocent and nostalgic slice of life? Don’t miss A CHRISTMAS STORY when it screens at The Wildey Theater.
‘Late Nite Grindhouse’ film series, presented by Destroy the Brain continues this weekend! Head to the Marcus Des Peres Cinema (12701 Manchester Rd, Des Peres, MO 63131) this Friday and Saturday (December 6th and 7th) at 10pm for a double-bill of yuletide slasher essentials: SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT and BLACK CHRISTMAS (the ’74 original!) Since this is a Marcus Theater, you may need to reserve your seats ahead of time HERE. There may (or may not be) tickets available the nights of the screenings, but it never hurts to get them in advance! Tickets are $13 (technically $13.12 w/ tax). One ticket will get you in to both films.A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984)
“You scared, ain’t ya? You should be! Christmas Eve is the scariest damn night of the year!”
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT tells the tale of Billy Chapmen, orphaned at five after witnessing the murder of his parents at the hands of a Santa suit-clad madman on Christmas Eve. Now eighteen and out of the brutal grip of orphanage nuns, Billy is forced to confront his greatest fear, sending him on a rampage, leaving a crimson trail in the snow behind him. SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, the poster child for Holiday horror films, caused a huge stink when it was released back in 1984. Influential film critic Gene Siskel especially despised the film, going as far to list, on his syndicated TV show, the film’s producers by name and, wagging his finger like a sweater-vested church lady, wailed “shame, shame, shame” after each name. What got Siskel’s holiday hackles up was the distasteful idea to have a slasher film featuring Saint Nick as its bloodthirsty villain. It wasn’t even the first “killer Santa” movie – (CHRISTMAS EVIL from 1980 has that distinction) but SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT is the most notorious because it had the balls to be released during the Christmas season and its holiday television ads attracted the ire of overly-sensitive parents, some of who actually went out and picketed various theaters in protest of it. Outraged moms and dads wrote letters to the film’s producers (“My little Billy is afraid to sit in Santa’s lap because of a TV commercial he saw for your disgusting film”). Consequently, the flick got pulled out of the cinemas and in some markets, including St. Louis, it was never shown theatrically at all. It eventually did find a big audience when it was released to video stores and several increasingly inferior sequels were spawned (though the great Monte Hellman directed part 3!). Lost in the controversy is that SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT was actually a pretty solid and scary horror flick. Of course it was never meant for kids, who would likely have been scarred for life if they had seen the opening sequence where an escaped criminal in a Santa suit rapes and kills off a kids mom while the child looks on. SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT has plenty of fun bloody death scenes and some great one-liners.
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
“Filthy Billy, I know what you did nasty Billy!”
BLACK CHRISTMAS was one hell of a claustrophobic and bleak holiday gift that gave me the genuine willies when I saw it just down the road from the Hi-Pointe at the Esquire cinema back in 1974 (when the Esquire was still a single-screener). I was 12 years old. It’s not nearly as blood-soaked as some of the Late Night Grindhouse‘s past offerings but BLACK CHRISTMAS, generally acknowledged as the forerunner of the “slasher” genre, is so graphic in its imagination that you don’t even need to see any gore or murder. BLACK CHRISTMAS holds up spectacularly well and everyone should thank the Destroy the Brain guys and the Hi-Pointe theater staff for the opportunity to see this blood-curdler on the big screen. Basically BLACK CHRISTMAS tells the tale of a group of sorority sisters that are hounded and harassed by a mysterious obscene crank caller. Circumstances take a disturbing turn when one of the poor gals winds up missing (She’s the one up in the attic throughout the movie! With the plastic bag over her head!). Up next is an investigation and the appearance of a few more dead bodies, ultimately leading up to a finale that will forever be etched in your mind when you tuck under the covers and prepare for sleep (which may actually never come). BLACK CHRISTMAS was made before the thousands of cliches of the slasher genre became typical, and it set the tone & atmosphere for years to come. HALLOWEEN has the mystery of who the killer is nearly down pat; it was a holiday horror with a stalker and anonymous phone callers but it came out a full four years after BLACK CHRISTMAS. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS took the nerve-strumming concept from BLACK CHRISTMAS and used it for the opening act, where “the calls were coming from inside the house.” Many slashers to follow would use BLACK CHRISTMAS ‘ “Is that you?” line when a character would wonder who is lurking about. Today, the creepy caller often gets spoofed (SCARY MOVIE) or updated in the form of a less effective cell phone (SCREAM). The Canada-filmed terror of BLACK CHRISTMAS has influenced so many subsequent shockers that it feels like a crime that it is rarely seen as the powerhouse it deserves to be acknowledged as.
Upon initial release in the US the titled was changed to SILENT NIGHT EVIL NIGHT because the American distributor worried that the title BLACK CHRISTMAS might cause the film to be mistaken for a blaxploitation film (!). However the film didn’t do well under this new title and it was changed back to BLACK CHRISTMAS, and was a success. BLACK CHRISTMAS sports a stellar cast that includes Olivia Hussey (ROMEO AND JULIET), Margot Kidder (acting drunk and slutty), John Saxon (acting drunk and studly), Keir Dullea, and Andrea Martin (who would play the house mother in the forgettable 2006 BLACK CHRISTMAS remake). Add to the mix director Bob Clark, one of the most eclectic independent directors ever, and a born storyteller (the man was responsible for A CHRISTMAS STORY, PORKY’S, and CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS). No doubt, if Bob Clark could’ve copyrighted the slasher movie concepts and cliches that he created, he would’ve been just as famous as John Carpenter or Wes Craven, maybe even more. If you really want to spend a week hiding under your covers, track down Clark’s 1972 Monkey’s Paw/zombie riff DEATHDREAM (aka DEAD OF NIGHT)which is, believe it or not, even scarier than BLACK CHRISTMAS.
“Only I didn’t say fudge… I said THE WORD. The big one. The queen mother of all dirty words… the F-dash-dash-dash WORD!!!!”
A CHRISTMAS STORY(1983) is screening at 7:00pm Thursday December 20th at Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm. It’s a fundraiser by the A FILM SERIES for Helping Kids Together. This is the A FILM SERIES 6th year in a row hosting everyone’s favorite Christmas movie! The screening is sponsored by Karl & Beckie Heinz and will be introduced by We Are Movie Geek’s own Tom Stockman!
I used an air rifle I got one Christmas growing up, but I never had a mail-in decoder ring which required me to consume mass quantities of Ovaltine, I never ran into bullies with yellow eyes, and I never took a dare to stick my tongue to an aluminum pole in the middle of winter. Of all the holiday films that have been released in the last 34 years, did anyone envision that the sleepy low budget film from 1983, generically titled A CHRISTMAS STORY, would be at the top of the almost everyone’s list? It actually bombed when first released in theater (though I saw it there twice) but has developed such an enormous following over the years, mostly through cable TV airings, that it probably is #1 on more favorite Christmas movies list than anything. Who would have thought Bob Clark, director of terrifying low-budget horror movies such as BLACK CHRISTMAS and DEATHDREAM (as well as the raunchy comedy hit PORKY’S) could capture such an innocent and nostalgic slice of life?
A CHRISTMAS STORY captured the idealism and–yes—the sadism of being a kid. Childhood is a crazy mix of hero worship, toy envy, survival of the fittest, daily fear of something, extreme innocence, and the desire to be treated as a grown-up without having to actually put up with being one. A CHRISTMAS STORY captures all these elements with sardonic poignancy. One of the greatest things about A CHRISTMAS STORY is ‘the Old Man’ played by Darren McGavin (61 when the film was made), who is constantly busy throughout the film, whether it’s battling the *#&*#@! furnace or trying to get his *#&*#@! car started or any other number of task that he becomes occupied with and cause him to cuss. He has very little dialog with Ralphie, yet it is he who in the end gets him his BB gun.
A CHRISTMAS STORY has a kind of timelessness that makes such a beloved piece of art, one we watch over and over and never get tired of it. Now you’ll have the chance to shoot your eye out and see A CHRISTMAS STORY in all its big screen glory and with an audience of fellow merrymakers when it plays 7:30pm Thursday December 21st at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143). Suggested admission is $6 but all of that money will support production of A FIT KID, an active lifestyle development program produced by Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/), a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.
Sponsored by Karl & Beckie Heinz
A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds. The bartender will be on hand to take care of you.
We hope to see everyone December 21st! It’s better than sticking your tongue on frozen pole!
THE FACEBOOK Invite for the event can be found HERE
“Only I didn’t say fudge… I said THE WORD. The big one. The queen mother of all dirty words… the F-dash-dash-dash WORD!!!!”
A CHRISTMAS STORY(1983) is screening at 7:00pm Thursday December 21st at Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm. It’s a fundraiser by the A FILM SERIES for Helping Kids Together. This is the A FILM SERIES 5th year in a row hosting everyone’s favorite Christmas movie! The screening is sponsored by Karl & Beckie Heinz and will be introduced by We Are Movie Geek’s own Tom Stockman!
I used an air rifle I got one Christmas growing up, but I never had a mail-in decoder ring which required me to consume mass quantities of Ovaltine, I never ran into bullies with yellow eyes, and I never took a dare to stick my tongue to an aluminum pole in the middle of winter. Of all the holiday films that have been released in the last 34 years, did anyone envision that the sleepy low budget film from 1983, generically titled A CHRISTMAS STORY, would be at the top of the almost everyone’s list? It actually bombed when first released in theater (though I saw it there twice) but has developed such an enormous following over the years, mostly through cable TV airings, that it probably is #1 on more favorite Christmas movies list than anything. Who would have thought Bob Clark, director of terrifying low-budget horror movies such as BLACK CHRISTMAS and DEATHDREAM (as well as the raunchy comedy hit PORKY’S) could capture such an innocent and nostalgic slice of life?
A CHRISTMAS STORY captured the idealism and–yes—the sadism of being a kid. Childhood is a crazy mix of hero worship, toy envy, survival of the fittest, daily fear of something, extreme innocence, and the desire to be treated as a grown-up without having to actually put up with being one. A CHRISTMAS STORY captures all these elements with sardonic poignancy. One of the greatest things about A CHRISTMAS STORY is ‘the Old Man’ played by Darren McGavin (61 when the film was made), who is constantly busy throughout the film, whether it’s battling the *#&*#@! furnace or trying to get his *#&*#@! car started or any other number of task that he becomes occupied with and cause him to cuss. He has very little dialog with Ralphie, yet it is he who in the end gets him his BB gun.
A CHRISTMAS STORY has a kind of timelessness that makes such a beloved piece of art, one we watch over and over and never get tired of it. Now you’ll have the chance to shoot your eye out and see A CHRISTMAS STORY in all its big screen glory and with an audience of fellow merrymakers when it plays 7:30pm Thursday December 21st at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143). Suggested admission is $6 but all of that money will support production of A FIT KID, an active lifestyle development program produced by Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/), a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.
Sponsored by Karl & Beckie Heinz
A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds. The bartender will be on hand to take care of you.
We hope to see everyone December 21st! It’s better than sticking your tongue on frozen pole!
THE FACEBOOK Invite for the event can be found HERE
“Only I didn’t say fudge… I said THE WORD. The big one. The queen mother of all dirty words… the F-dash-dash-dash WORD!!!!”
A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) is screening at 7:30pm Friday December 18th at Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm. It’s a fundraiser for Helping Kids Together. The film will be introduced by We Are Movie Geek’s own Tom Stockman!
I used an air rifle I got one Christmas growing up, but I never had a mail-in decoder ring which required me to consume mass quantities of Ovaltine, I never ran into bullies with yellow eyes, and I never took a dare to stick my tongue to an aluminum pole in the middle of winter. Of all the holiday films that have been released in the last thirty years, did anyone envision that the sleepy low budget film from 1983, generically titled A CHRISTMAS STORY, would be at the top of the almost everyone’s list? It actually bombed when first released in theater (though I saw it there twice) but has developed such an enormous following over the years, mostly through cable TV airings, that it probably is #1 on more favorite Christmas movies list than anything. Who would have thought Bob Clark, director of terrifying low-budget horror movies such as BLACK CHRISTMAS and DEATHDREAM (as well as the raunchy comedy hit PORKY’S) could capture such an innocent and nostalgic slice of life?
A CHRISTMAS STORY captured the idealism and–yes—the sadism of being a kid. Childhood is a crazy mix of hero worship, toy envy, survival of the fittest, daily fear of something, extreme innocence, and the desire to be treated as a grown-up without having to actually put up with being one. A CHRISTMAS STORY captures all these elements with sardonic poignancy. One of the greatest things about A CHRISTMAS STORY is ‘the Old Man’ played by Darren McGavin (61 when the film was made), who is constantly busy throughout the film, whether it’s battling the *#&*#@! furnace or trying to get his *#&*#@! car started or any other number of task that he becomes occupied with and cause him to cuss. He has very little dialog with Ralphie, yet it is he who in the end gets him his BB gun.
A CHRISTMAS STORY has a kind of timelessness that makes such a beloved piece of art, one we watch over and over and never get tired of it. Now you’ll have the chance to shoot your eye out and see A CHRISTMAS STORY in all its big screen glory and with an audience of fellow merrymakers when it plays 7:30pm Friday December 18th at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143). Suggested admission is $6 but all of that money will support production of A FIT KID, an active lifestyle development program produced by Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/), a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.
Sponsored by Karl & Beckie Heinz
A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds. The bartender will be on hand to take care of you.
We hope to see everyone December 18th! It’s better than sticking your tongue on frozen pole!
THE FACEBOOK Invite for the event can be foundHERE
One of the great features over at the Internet Movie Database is the Bottom 100. Based on ratings viewers of the site give to various films, the worst of the worst films get put on this list. Some of them are on and off in a matter of days. Others stick around for the long haul, showing just how much suckage they truly emit.
It’s time to look at these movies and determine where they stand. Do they deserve to be on the Bottom 100 list? Are they not as bad as everyone says? Will they be off the list any time soon?
Here’s the breakdown for this week’s film:
Title: ‘Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2’
Release Date: August 27, 2004
Ranking on Bottom 100 (as of 5/27/2009): #4 (based on 8,052 votes)
Why It’s Here: When first viewing this movie, you may wonder why it’s even on the IMDB Bottom 100 list. It’s a kid’s movie, so a certain level of schlock is expected, and it even sort of resembles a earlier, less cool, lower budget ‘Spy Kids’ kind of idea during the introductory 5-10 minutes. Unfortunately, once the story of the Kahuna (the ultimate superbaby) and Biscane (Jon Voight) begins, it’s all downhill from here. Voight is actually sort of fun (in a horrible way) as a cheesy German master-villain that oddly reminds me of an elderly Rutger Hauer. I’m almost ashamed to admit that, but sometimes the truth hurts.
Venturing further into the movie, it becomes clearly evident that ‘Superbabies’ is all premise with greatly under-achieved execution with laughable special effects. The fight scenes are thrown-together with half-ass wire work and shamefully employ puns older than Bob Barker’s belly button lint. The movie’s physical comedy consists of gags worn out in the silent era or stolen directly from The Three Stooges. The dialogue is painfully bad, even for a kid’s flick, but there are some irresistibly enjoyable lines of dialogue made humorous only by the fact they were uttered by veteran actor Jon Voight.
Lowest of the Low Moments: The movie runs fairly consistent when it comes to low moments. No scene stands out as especially bogus over the others, but ‘Superbabies’ does have on incredibly low moment that only appears before and after the movie proper… it’s the director’s credit. ‘Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2’ as well as it’s predecessor was directed by Bob Clark. A relatively common, unfamiliar name, but for we movie geeks who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s it’s a name that has a nostalgic vibration.
Mr. Clark gave the world my all-time favorite Christmas movie called ‘A Christmas Story’. Aside from this holiday classic, Clark gave us a couple other classics including the horror movies ‘Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things’ and ‘Black Christmas’ and we can’t forget he brought us the first two ‘Porkys’ films. Unfortunately, after ‘A Christmas Story’ Clark made the regretful Sylvester Stallone/Dolly Parton disaster ‘Rhinestone’ and he never really recovered after that. To see a filmmaker so inclined with great genre sensibilities take a long and lethal nose dive into a tiny bucket of sour lime juice simply breaks my heart. Then again, we can’t all be Stanley Kubrick.
Will it Ever Get Off the List: It’s my opinion that, while ‘Superbabies’ is an awful movie, it doesn’t seem to deserve being nearly so high (or low, perhaps) on the IMDB Bottom 100 list. What I attempted to keep in mind while watching the movie was that it is primarily a kid’s movie, after all and that has to play into it’s rating. So, given that [at least] 99.9% of users on IMDB are adults, it doesn’t make for a very unbiased sampling of the film’s target audience. With that said, I highly doubt this will ever make it off the list altogether, but I feel in time may squirm it’s way into a higher-numbers spot on the list and see it’s infamous notoriety as #4 begin to dwindle.
This YouTube video pretty much sums up everything you need to know…
We all know it… We all love it… and if you don’t, well… I’m not sure I know what to say to you. ‘A Christmas Story’ is a modern classic of Christmas movies, to many a staple (including myself) of the holiday season. For many like myself, it’s the best Christmas movie ever made and can relate to so much in the movie. So, as movie geeks, what do we do when we REALLY like a movie? We look for cool geek stuff to show how obsessed we are with that movie… that’s what!
1. So, now you’ve got your Christmas tree up and standing proud, but it’s looking a little naked. Before you go for the typical boring round glass ornaments, why not personalize your tree with memories of the greatest Christmas movie of all time? That’s right, turn your holiday pine into ‘A Christmas Story’ shrine! [Yeah, that’s right… I rhymed.] These ornaments are part of the Hallmark series or ornaments and there are three to choose from: the leg lamp in crate (actually lights up), Ralphie in his aunt’s pink bunny costume and Flick being triple-dog-dared to stick his tongue to the flag pole. There was actually a fourth of little brother Randy in his “can’t put my arms down” coat, but it’s long since sold out.
2. Maybe you’ve been asking yourself the following question, “What on Earth shall we do when we’re not eating, napping, opening presents, eating, napping or watching ‘A Christmas Story’ during the holiday?” Never fear, Milton Bradley is here! That’s right… you have two, count ’em two board games to choose from. If you feel like recreating your favorite Christmas movie on a folding cardboard square with little plastic leg lamps you can play the official ‘A Christmas Story’ board game. Or, if you feel like killing a lot more time [because we all know how long it takes to finish one game of Monopoly] then try your hands at the movie-themed version of he classic Monopoly board game, complete with pewter game pieces of the leg lamp, bar of soap, broken glasses, fragile crate, bunny suit and the old man’s car.
3. Have you ever found yourself bored with the same old Christmas lights that you see everywhere, clear, blue and multi-colored strings of tiny incandescent bulbs that glow and maybe even flicker? Sure, they’re pretty and all, but sometimes you want something more… like, a leg in a fish net stocking! Yeah, that’s it! Thanks to Meca, your dreams can now come true. Meca is a toy company and what appears to be one of their most popular seasonal items are ‘A Christmas Story’ themed products, including a leg lamp night light for you to find you way in the dark and a string of little leg lamp Christmas lights to “spice up” that dreary Christmas tree display.
4. Bobbleheads, Bobbleheads, BOBBLEHEADS!!! What collection would be complete without bobbleheads? Available are various sizes and versions of Ralphie, Ralphie’s dad and even a leg lamp bobbleheadshade. Or, if you’re not into the head knocking action of the springy-necked toys, then you can always pickup the complete set of Parker family action figures, including mom, dad, Randy, Ralphie and of course, the leg lamp.
5. Finally, what fan of ‘A Christmas Story’ doesn’t own a copy of the DVD? Well, it may be time to upgrade from that old paper case version to the recently released two-disc collector’s edition in the limited edition cookie tin, that includes a collectible book about the movie, a recipe book, an exclusive cooking apron and a set of four cookie cutters; including the leg lamp, bunny costume, the Parker’s house and the Christmas star tree topper.
