In this episode the yuletide gets gayer with Happiest Season’s favorite sister, Jane—AKA the film’s co-writer Mary Holland—and Dana Nachman, director of a documentary love letter to the US Postal Service, Dear Santa (and crowd-pleasers Pick of the Litter and Batkid Begins). Plus: Love Actually’s missing lesbians, our spooky new theme music, and Die Hard or Die Hard 2? It’s the battle of the Christmas voice messages.
Films mentioned:

What We Do in the Shadows
Love Actually
The Family Stone
Home Alone
“Christmas movie posters with white heterosexual couples wearing red and green” list
Make the Yuletide Gay—Christmas films with LGBTQ+ representation
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
It’s a Wonderful Life
Toni Collette comedies and Hereditary
Enchanted
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Grease
The Addams Family
Serendipity
Elf
A Christmas Story
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The films of Adam McKay

This episode was recorded in Los Angeles, Joshua Tree and Auckland and edited by Tony Stamp. Theme music is ‘Vampiros Dancoteque’ by Moniker. Podcast artwork by Ann Davenport. On the next episode, we’ve got Wolfwalkers director Tomm Moore and animation heads Kambole Campbell and Toussaint Egan—leave us a voice message regarding your favorite animated film.