The Arts Hole

Jack Frost

A year after the horror movie "Jack Frost" came this unintentionally horrific family movie of the same name, in which Michael Keaton plays a man who is brought back as what can only be described as a Snow Wight*. It's a bad idea, but it's also handled ineptly. Merry Christmas!
*If you, like Bea, did not get this joke apparently it's a very highbrow Luke pun about ghosts. 
Bruce Willis singing...
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The Polar Express

All aboard! ...Wait, no, sorry. All are bored by Robert Zemeckis' completely CGI Christmas movie about a magic train that can chug along on rails like a non-magic train, as well as no other things. None of the characters have names and all of them are Tom Hanks and if you want it to make sense, so did we.  
Luke's long digression - or at least one of them - is about this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_the_North_Pole 
Head to Bea's Instagram if you want to see a side by side comparison of Conductor Tom Hanks & murderer Dr. Crippen...
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Avatar 2: The Way of Water

 Listen, and understand. James Cameron is out there. He can't be bargained with. He can't be reasoned with. He doesn't feel shame, or remorse, or when a script is woefully in need of another draft. And he absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until we agree that giant blue cat monsters are sexy and cool. We've threatened this for a while, but settle in, because we finally watched Avatar 2. 
Correction: In the episode Bea says that Avatar: The Way of Water cost 2 billion US dollars to make; budget estimates actually range from $460 million to over $1 billion of combined production and marketing costs. The $2 billion figure came from James Cameron quoted in a Variety article from January 2023 saying the film would need to make $2 billion dollars to break even. 
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Masters & Disasters: Interview(s) With The Vampire(s)

Tom Cruise is a gay-coded immortal, who coincidentally plays a vampire in the movie adaptation of Anne Rice's book. It's not very good, but it did lead to a superb TV series. We look at why the recent 'Interview With The Vampire' series has bite, while the movie version just sucks. 
We also go into why former Superman Dean Cain's people reached out to us and what we did next...
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The Nun

With The Nun Two in cinemas now we take a look at The Nun One: The Nunnaning, which takes place in the same cinematic universe as The Conjuring, detailing another allegedly true haunting. Have the dead returned to torment us, or is it just the force of habit? ...Sorry.
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The Whale

Call us Ishmael. No wait - that other thing - The Arts Hole Season 3! We're back and so's Brendan Fraser in Darren Arronofsky's "The Whale" We take a deep dive with this beast but thankfully come up for air. God, this film is depressing...
Content Warning: Discussions of suicide. 
Things we mention: 
The brilliant work of Fat Activist Aubrey Gordon
A Single Man
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Viva Las Vegas!

The gambling dens of the Nevada desert are the setting for this musical which is largely set on a boat and doesn't feature any gambling, for some reason.
Elvis Presley scored an unlikely cinematic success at the height of Beatlemania as he pursues Ann Margaret in ways that our grandparents' generation apparently considered cute and which would now see you taken into custody. Join us for a confused romp that ends with far more violent deaths than anyone expected.  
Still, the score is catchy as hell. Everybody! "Bright lights city gonna set my soul..." 
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The Menu (& an announcement)

Ralph Fiennes was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as the outrageous, homicidal chef in this new horror comedy but is it a potboiler or just a load of old ham? 
Plus we're back! - to say we're going again, but just for a bit... 
 
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The Hole-y Awards 2022

Join us and Disco the Podcast Puppy for 2022's New Year round up episode in a new awards format we're calling 'The Holeys'! Does it work? You be the judge of that as we judge the film and TV of 2022. 
 
SHOW NOTES: 
All the titles we talked about in the order I can remember them in as I type this, plus where to find them.
TV: 
Peacemaker - Sky
Minx -  Paramount Plus 
Inside Job - Netflix
Invincible - Amazon Prime 
Severance - Apple TV
Succession - Sky
The Boys - Amazon Prime 
Blackbird - Apple TV
Barry - Sky
Girls5Eva - Sky
She Hulk: Attorney at Law - Disney Plus 
Everything I Know About Love - BBC
The English - BBC
Only Murders In The Building - Disney Plus 
MOVIES:
The Banshees of Inisherin - Disney Plus
Glass Onion - Netflix 
The Lost City - Amazon 
Bullet Train - Amazon
 
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Jingle All The Way

Perhaps inevitably, we have reached the point where we had to acknowledge the existence of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Jingle All The Way' Some of you asked for this. You sadists. You unhinged, coal-hearted monsters. 
SHOW NOTES: 
Back Door Santa  if you think the song title's spicy wait till you hear the lyrics...
Our Free Christmas Movie Bingo
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