Seven Stocking Stuffers!

Our year in review continues. A new list daily.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY KWANZAA to our beloved readers! 

For this festive morning of gift-giving, here's a list of some treasures from this year's movies that would make some lucky recipient smile from ear to ear. Which of these 7 would you most want to kiss Santa Claus for stuffing in your stocking this morning? Do tell in the comments.

(We wanted to include JLo's Hustlers fur or Tom Mercier's mustard Synonyms coat but we've never seen a stocking big enough to include either so we decided clothing was not allowed for this particular list) 

• The 'Scholar's Rock' from Parasite. You'd have to be more careful with it than the Kims were but it did bring them sudden success as advertised. 

• A Sith wayfinder from Rise of Skywalker. They are very rare so they're valuable. Though why would you want to go to Exegol? What a (surreal) dump...  

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Twitter's Dark Fate: To forever speak of Marty vs Marvel

a curated batch of amusing or interesting tweets about the movies...

Seeing people complain that Dark Fate brought wokeness to the Terminator is pretty hilarious when you realize that the most beloved installment featured a robot, a buff woman, a kid played by a Latino actor & a black scientist vs. a villain with the appearance of an LAPD officer. pic.twitter.com/3PPFFOEXWU

— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) November 5, 2019

The indignities we’ve put our ascending queens through... pic.twitter.com/rQ8CSeO9fW

— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) November 4, 2019

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A scattershot weekend at the box office. What did you see?

Since we haven't done a massive box office chart of everything in wide release (800+ screens) and the corresponding specialty titles in a month or so, let's do that shall we? What did you see on this scattershot weekend that had literally 9 new releases premiering and nothing truly dominant? After the jump the full chart and some context about The Farewell's major financial success (and Oscar dreams)...

Weekend Box Office August 9th-11th (Actuals) 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 Hobbs & Shaw $25.2 (cum. $108.3) REVIEW  ★	1 🔺 The Farewell $2 on 704 screens (cum. $10.2) PERSONAL TAKE, INTERVIEW  ★

2 🔺  Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark $20.9 *new*	2 🔺  Maiden $258k on 173 screens (cum. $1.9)  REVIEW ★

3 The Lion King  $20.2 (cum. $473.3) REVIEW	3 🔺   The Peanut Butter Falcon $204k on 17 screens *new* REVIEW ★

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