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.