good morning!
Thanksgiving is almost here! Can you feel it in the air? How many pecan pies have you had? Be honest (I’ve had four little ones).
Christmas season always comes before Thanksgiving, but I think it really comes in earnest the days afterwards. When I was a kid, my parents would occassionally take my siblings and me to the cinema to watch a Christmas film. Those were fond memories.
But for all these wonderful Christmas movies, we shouldn’t overlook films to get us in the Thanksgiving spirit. That’s why I’m doing a pre-Thanksgiving post. To give you all a chance to watch a Thanksgiving film before the big day (or on the big day, after Spurs-Roma).
That film is Planes, Trains and Automobiles starring Steve Martin and John Candy.
This is one of my favourite holiday films of all time. I first watched it on Thanksgiving 2017 when I was living in London. Tucked in my tiny room, I turned on the flm and was hugely happy with what I chose.
The film follows advertising exec Neal Page, on his way home from New York to spend Thanksgiving with his family in Chicago. But he keeps bumping into this loudmouth guy named Mr Bryant, and the two eventually wind up in Kansas because of a huge snowstorm.
What ensues is a lovely and hilarious road-trip film with the two as they form a very lovely friendship.
All that’s to say, I watched Gladiator II tonight. Denzel Washington was spectacular and Matt Lucas (I know, right?) was a surprise treat. The film itself was good-not-great. The random cackles of some moviegoers during the film was also unpleaseant. Wondering if I should’ve wastch Planes, Trains and Automobiles instead.
I’ll watch it tomorrow.
Enjoy your pre-thanksgiving (or generic Thursday, all you non-Americans).
Fitzie’s track of the day: All In My Head, by The Linda Lindas
And now for your links:
Jack P-B ($$): Might be hardest time to stop ‘wild swings in mood and form’
Dan KP: Tottenham gamble backfires with Vicario injury
The match everyone’s talking about: Norwich City beat Plymouth 6-1
Steve Martin picks his favourite character from his career