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Remember when everyone was obsessed with deciding whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie? (It is. Sorry.) Well, if you ask Anthony Breznican, we've been sleeping on quite a few other films that we ought to add to the Christmas movie canon. The War of the Roses? First Blood?! Both holiday classics, apparently. Check out Breznican's full holiday dispatch below. Whether you agree with him or not, consider it healthy debate fodder for when you run out of things to talk about with your in-laws this week. —Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor Plus: |
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Die Hard counts as a Christmas movie. Case closed. Now, let's settle the rest. |
We are fast approaching December 25, when people turn to classics such as It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and Love Actually to conjure nostalgia and deliver some much needed yuletide spirit. But there is also a new winter tradition: striking down with great vengeance and furious anger over what actually counts as a Christmas movie. Thanks, Die Hard. That movie is basically Patient Zero for this phenomenon. And yes, it's an action flick set at a corporate holiday party, with a soundtrack full of carols and a "Now I Have A Machine Gun Ho-Ho-Ho" taunt from the good guy. Die Hard counts as a Christmas movie. Case closed. But there are other even more borderline cases. Let's consider these as unusual contributions to the holiday-movie-watching season, or as fodder for your next online brawl or in-person family dinner argument. What else are you going to fight over, since the world is otherwise in perfect shape and everything is great? |
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Christmas cocktails are 99.9 percent about garnishes. You could put out a punch bowl of lukewarm Ocean Spray, and with some pine tree fronds, dried cranberries, and star anise pods scattered about, and people would rave. What's that other tenth of a percent, you ask? Alcohol. And alcohol is, needless to say, still important. So here's a collection of cocktail recipes that are more than appropriate for Christmastime and all its merriment. Or rather, strained togetherness after a year packed in tight with stress. Drinks all around! |
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To stand out in the mattress market is near impossible. Esquire's shopping team would know this because we've made a point to test every one of these direct-to-consumer mattress brands, and we've made a point to test as many models as possible from each. I've slept on Saatva's most popular model. I've tested the budget Casper, which has now turned into a different bed called The Cloud One. I've tested plenty from the luxury mattress category—like a giant, unwieldy Purple RestorePlus. I've advised on our other editors' mattress journeys, and I've put untold hours into the big new Esquire Sleep Awards. The more we test mattresses, the more we realize what we actually want is simplicity. The mattress needs to be great, and the buying process needs to be simple. I think Ostermoor—the topic of this review—understands that more than any other brand on the market. And to top it off, it's got a 170-year history other DTC brands could only dream of. |
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