Comfort Movies: The Polar Express, 2004
I knew this was going to happen at some point during this month, because I see so many movies. Eventually …
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Comfort Movies: Mr. Vampire, 1985
A Taoist priest and his two bumbling assistants must move a rich man’s father’s coffin because he was buried in …
Comfort Movies: MST3K’s Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
There can’t be anything more comforting than putting on a good episode of MST3K late at night. I didn’t even …
Comfort Movies: Best in Show, 2000
I mentioned the Christoper Guest mockumentaries yesterday so I decided I’d include my favorite one in this theme month. Most …
Comfort Movies: Hands on a Hardbody, 1997
In the summer of 1995, a bunch of strangers got together at a Nissan dealership in Longview Texas to see …
Comfort Movies: The Full Monty, 1997
Unemployed steel mill worker Gaz gets the brilliant idea to make some money by doing a Chippendale’s style strip show …
Comfort Movies: Desert Hearts, 1985
In the late 1950s Vivian, an apparently stuffy English professor from New York, moves to Reno to establish residency long …
Comfort Movies: Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
Best friends Romy and Michele moved to L.A. from Tucson right after their high school graduation and never looked back, …
Comfort Movies: Local Hero, 1983
Mac is a mid-level executive in a huge oil company called Knox Oil and Gas in Texas. He drives a …
Comfort Movies: Donnie Darko, 2001
Donnie Darko almost defies explanation, and no matter how many times I see it, I have to work out what …
