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Oscar Isaac is set to play Solid Snake and the Sony Pictures film Metal Gear Solid.

The film will be based on the 33 year old video game franchise of the same name, which was originally created by the legendary Head A Okajima for Konami, wherein solid snake searches for a nuclear super weapon called Metal Gear.

Kong Skull Island director Jordan Vogt Roberts will direct with a script by Derek Connolly.

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The release of Wonder Woman 1984 just around the corner.

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I was in tears when it ended as 2020 comes to a close, and we approach the holiday season.

We're celebrating by taking a look at Fandango.

Now's list off holiday romance films, and there is no one better to dive into this list of romantic holiday movies than film critic, writer and author of Have Yourself a Movie.

Little Christmas, Alonso, Darryl Day.

Happy Holidays, Alonso.

Happy Holidays, Good Morning.

So you literally wrote the book on this.

So you have to enlighten us.

What ingredients make a great holiday romance?

I think when you're looking at Christmas movies overall, there's a real sense of redemption.

Forgiveness.

You know, it's the time when families get together and maybe have that conversation they haven't had before or, you know, decide toe look past.

You know, the things of the past.

So I think that when you're looking at holiday romance more often than not, it's about a couple who maybe knew each other before they were.

They grew up together or they broke up, and now this is getting a second chance.

There's something that I think about a holiday romance where you really want there to be that feel of redemption, that idea of like, we messed this up before.

But this time we're going to get it right because of Christmas.

Right initially, I was like, Oh, you make it sound like a pressure cooker.

It's like the holidays really intensify it, but that's an unromantic way of looking at it, Okay, It's kind of amplifies emotion.

I think it was.

That's what it is that I think.

There's also the idea of, you know, at Christmas time maybe we confined our best Selves and the best versions of other people, and that's who you want to fall in love with.

That's that's a beautiful way of saying it.

I love that.

So who, then is your favorite holiday couple?

I think really George and Mary Bailey like they just they set the bar for everybody else.

You know, she's clearly interested in from a very early age and takes him a while.

Come around and figure out what's going on there.

But there is such a palpable like they're a sexy couple.

That scene where she's on the phone with Sam Wainwright and he's right there next to her and They're just like breathing on each other like that for a forties movie that is crazy, hot.

And then later in the film, he has that really hard to watch scene where he's just mhm flipping out.

And he's, you know, he thinks he's gonna go to jail and he's lashing out of this family, and it's like That's a that's a lot to bounce back from.

But then you get that amazing ending where she's gone out and rally the town on his behalf.

And he's, you know, had this other this Look at what you know Potter's Villa would have been, and and and And it really comes understand everything in his life that does work, and she's principal among those things.

And so when they when he is just like devouring her at the end, when she comes running in the house and whips that scarf off her head and he just can't get enough of her like that za hot and heavy Christmas moment.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah.

Do you watch that one like routinely on Christmas or Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, in normal years here in Los Angeles, the Arrow Theater in Santa Monica Screen said.

Every year and usually like the 22nd, 23rd.

And that's been sort of an annual tradition, and we're gonna have to sort of like wing it with the Blue Ray this year.

But yeah, going to see it's a wonderful life when you when you can see it on the big screen, is totally like a part of my my annual holiday tradition.

Man, I have to have to check that out.

Just zoom.

Just zoom movies this year, pretty much now.

We can't talk about modern holiday romance without getting into, like the massive catalog of Hallmark and Lifetime movies.

So what do you What do you love about these movies?

And do you have a favorite?

You know, the Hallmark Lifetime movies are, I think, in a lot of ways, this great sort of delivery system for, you know, the kind of the things that we want out of Christmas in terms of just like the visuals of nothing else.

It's the tree lighting, it's the cookie decorating and it's the you know, like let's go caroling and let's have a snowball fight and build a snowman and you know it is kind of a.

It's a Christmas card come to life, you know.

And that's what that's where hallmarks main business is.

So it makes sense that that's what they would dio.

And then, as far as their love stories go, I think very often the one of the plot tropes they kind of keep coming back to is the oh, we were high school sweethearts.

But then, you know, she went to the big city and he didn't or, you know, or there's some kind of thing in the past and it's tied into our families air close together.

And so you know that that that amplifies the coziness of it all.

But they don't always have to be that way.

In fact, I'd say my favorite one is a film that aired last year on the Hallmark movies and mysteries called Two Turtle Doves.

And it's about a woman who comes back after her grandmother has died and the grandmother raised her.

She's inherited her house, and the grandmother has stipulated in the will.

I want you to spend a Christmas here.

I want you to do all of our Christmas traditions, and then you can decide after that, do you wanna commit to staying here?

Is this gonna be part of your life where you wanted to sell the house and move on?

Uh, living next door to her is the guy who was The grandmother is a state attorney, and he's a widow.

So they both experienced loss.

But they're both kind of working together and with his young daughter to kind of make the holiday magical for each other.

Um, they're played by Nikki DeLoach, Michael Rady, and they have a crazy amount of chemistry.

And, you know, there's a trope in the Hallmark movies you always see, which is the almost kiss.

You know where they like.

They go in for it and then like somebody's phone rings or somebody interrupts the research bells go off.

Yeah, whatever it takes.

Like they can't because they kiss till the end.

You know, that's changing this some this year, but usually in homework, they couldn't kiss till the very end, and this one is really smart.

And then she comes in for the kiss twice, and he's like, I would love to kiss you right now, but until I know that you're ready to really commit to being here and toe like making a life with me and my daughter.

I'm not gonna cross that line because it would be too hard later to say goodbye to you.

And it's like, Oh, wow, human behavior.

You know, we don't get that all the time in Hallmark and Lifetime movies, but in this movie, they really land that moment.

So when they do kiss at the end, it really means something s Oh, yeah, I think that's a really great one.

It's a great love story if people want to check that one out.

Awesome.

My final question nightmare before Christmas, Christmas movie or Halloween movie?

Yes, All right, Well, thank you so much, Alonso.

Where can people find you?

I'm at a duality on Twitter.

You can read my reviews that the rap dot com and I host a whole bunch of podcasts, including Linoleum Knife, which just celebrated sent anniversary that I do with my husband, Dave White.

Awesome.

Well, happy holidays, Happy holidays and please, if you haven't picked it up already, have yourself a movie.

Little Christmas.

It's a great holiday film guide, and we'll give you some fun ideas.

Maybe for some movies you've never checked out before and you know will become part of your annual tradition.

Dude, in such a great book title s so good I saw it was like Nice, All right, so thanks much available to watch it home on Friday is Wild Mountain Thyme.

He's not normal.

I don't care.

You take after John Kelly and that man was mad as the full moon drowned himself, he fell in here, a rock tied to his neck.

Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Riley's love.

The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse and remains oblivious to his beautiful admire Er.

Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony's jolted into pursuing his dreams.

The film stars Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken and Jon Hamm.

Also available to watch it home on Friday is songbird.

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Songbird is set in 2024 where Kobe, 23 has mutated to the point that the world is in its fourth year of lock down and infected Americans are forced from their homes and into quarantine camps.

The film follows a handful of people as they navigate the obstacles currently hindering society, disease, martial law, quarantine and vigilantes.

The thriller is produced by Michael Bay and stars KJ APA, Sophia Carson, Craig Robinson, Demi Moore and Alexandra D'Addario.

All right, well, that's it for today.

But leave us a comment and let us know who your favorite holiday couple is.

I'm Kale and I'll see you next time.