Erin Snyder
@erinlsnyder.bsky.social
Self-published novelist, movie geek, and Yuletide nerd, originally from Maine and now living in the Pacific Northwest (He/Him)
About my books: https://erinlsnyder.com/
Christmas movie reviews: www.mainliningchristmas.com/
About my books: https://erinlsnyder.com/
Christmas movie reviews: www.mainliningchristmas.com/
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Erin Snyder
@erinlsnyder.bsky.social
· Nov 10
I'm putting together a starter pack for people obsessed with Christmas: authors who have written about the holiday, people with a year-round appreciation of Christmas movies, yuletide folklore/history buffs - you name it.
Recommendations appreciated!
Recommendations appreciated!
See, they should have gone with their original idea, "The First Film."
Has a better ring to it.
Has a better ring to it.
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
See, they should have gone with their original idea, "The First Film."
Has a better ring to it.
Has a better ring to it.
The kid wanted to see KPop Demon Hunters, so I wound up rewatching it. I still have reservations with the unintended subtext, but that being said... Jesus, they did a good job with this thing.
I wonder if one movie is allowed to get every nomination for Best Song...
I wonder if one movie is allowed to get every nomination for Best Song...
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The kid wanted to see KPop Demon Hunters, so I wound up rewatching it. I still have reservations with the unintended subtext, but that being said... Jesus, they did a good job with this thing.
I wonder if one movie is allowed to get every nomination for Best Song...
I wonder if one movie is allowed to get every nomination for Best Song...
Gave this one serious thought. I think the answer is Scrooge (1935), because it started a chain reaction that transformed the way I look at and think about movies.
What movie are you most thankful for? (not necessarily your favorite!)
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Gave this one serious thought. I think the answer is Scrooge (1935), because it started a chain reaction that transformed the way I look at and think about movies.
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I'd never read or seen any version of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." A day before watching the acclaimed 2024 movie, I figured I should read the original book, since we had a copy and it's extremely short. Here's why that was a big mistake. #filmsky
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)
Distilled Concentrated Cheer, updated frequently between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas movie, TV, and book reviews, articles, fiction.
www.mainliningchristmas.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'd never read or seen any version of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." A day before watching the acclaimed 2024 movie, I figured I should read the original book, since we had a copy and it's extremely short. Here's why that was a big mistake. #filmsky
No matter how talented, no one who does anything like this should ever again be trusted with the kind of power producers and directors have, but it's also worth remembering Brett Ratner was one of the worst filmmakers of his day. Just an absolute hack. Awful.
Brett Ratner outed Eliot Page as gay (before Page came out as a trans man,” is accused by six women of sexual assault and harrassment, and in 2018 lost all his deals with WB. Now Trump and his fellow rapists and rape apologists are demanding Ratner be fully funded to make movies.
its so weird how everyone connected with trump has SA allegations in their history
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
No matter how talented, no one who does anything like this should ever again be trusted with the kind of power producers and directors have, but it's also worth remembering Brett Ratner was one of the worst filmmakers of his day. Just an absolute hack. Awful.
Reposted by Erin Snyder
Hey! My book is now on sale everywhere (you’ll probably have better luck getting it online than from bookstores, alas), but come buy a signed copy at one of the following events! Thread:
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hey! My book is now on sale everywhere (you’ll probably have better luck getting it online than from bookstores, alas), but come buy a signed copy at one of the following events! Thread:
Sigh.
I know this is a joke. I get the joke. But I've heard it before, and it makes it all the more difficult to get people to engage with movies like Ronin, 101 Dalmatians, Scandal (1950), etc. as ACTUAL Christmas movies.
I know this is a joke. I get the joke. But I've heard it before, and it makes it all the more difficult to get people to engage with movies like Ronin, 101 Dalmatians, Scandal (1950), etc. as ACTUAL Christmas movies.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sigh.
I know this is a joke. I get the joke. But I've heard it before, and it makes it all the more difficult to get people to engage with movies like Ronin, 101 Dalmatians, Scandal (1950), etc. as ACTUAL Christmas movies.
I know this is a joke. I get the joke. But I've heard it before, and it makes it all the more difficult to get people to engage with movies like Ronin, 101 Dalmatians, Scandal (1950), etc. as ACTUAL Christmas movies.
I think the easiest way to resolve this traffic jam is for everyone to abandon the city, rebuild elsewhere, and allow nature to reclaim Oslo.
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I think the easiest way to resolve this traffic jam is for everyone to abandon the city, rebuild elsewhere, and allow nature to reclaim Oslo.
I don't know a damn thing about the Jonas Brothers, but I know a good Christmas comedy when I see one. This was far better than I was expecting and absolutely worth checking out. #filmsky
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)
Distilled Concentrated Cheer, updated frequently between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas movie, TV, and book reviews, articles, fiction.
www.mainliningchristmas.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I don't know a damn thing about the Jonas Brothers, but I know a good Christmas comedy when I see one. This was far better than I was expecting and absolutely worth checking out. #filmsky
Reposted by Erin Snyder
Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy is about how uniquely American cultural media changed as a result of federal influences on Hollywood in the 40s/50s.
I fought for Open Access because media & propaganda literacy are essential right now.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
I fought for Open Access because media & propaganda literacy are essential right now.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy is about how uniquely American cultural media changed as a result of federal influences on Hollywood in the 40s/50s.
I fought for Open Access because media & propaganda literacy are essential right now.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
I fought for Open Access because media & propaganda literacy are essential right now.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
I got nothing to add to this. 10/10. No notes.
LucasFilm: Muppet Star Wars
Marvel: Squirrel Girl
Warner Bros: Batgirl (just finish it)
Paramount: Star Trek Lower Decks - The Movie
Universal - Key and Peele Meet the Universal Monsters
Blumhouse: Twelve Days of Purge-mas
Lionsgate: A Very Step Up Wedding
Pixar: The Queerest. Movie. EVER.
Marvel: Squirrel Girl
Warner Bros: Batgirl (just finish it)
Paramount: Star Trek Lower Decks - The Movie
Universal - Key and Peele Meet the Universal Monsters
Blumhouse: Twelve Days of Purge-mas
Lionsgate: A Very Step Up Wedding
Pixar: The Queerest. Movie. EVER.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I got nothing to add to this. 10/10. No notes.
In keeping with the theme I figured it was time to rewatch this bit of forgotten 90's cinema.
The first half is actually good, and if it hadn't dropped the bit and started acting semi-serious...
It still probably would have bombed but maybe everyone wouldn't look at me funny when I say I like it.
The first half is actually good, and if it hadn't dropped the bit and started acting semi-serious...
It still probably would have bombed but maybe everyone wouldn't look at me funny when I say I like it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
In keeping with the theme I figured it was time to rewatch this bit of forgotten 90's cinema.
The first half is actually good, and if it hadn't dropped the bit and started acting semi-serious...
It still probably would have bombed but maybe everyone wouldn't look at me funny when I say I like it.
The first half is actually good, and if it hadn't dropped the bit and started acting semi-serious...
It still probably would have bombed but maybe everyone wouldn't look at me funny when I say I like it.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
"Animal Tales of Christmas Magic" is a beautifully animated all-ages anthology that deserves a place on the short list of great Christmas animated movies. If you have Kanopy, you can most likely watch it for free right now. #filmsky
Le grand Noël des animaux [Animal Tales of Christmas Magic] (2024)
Distilled Concentrated Cheer, updated frequently between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas movie, TV, and book reviews, articles, fiction.
www.mainliningchristmas.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"Animal Tales of Christmas Magic" is a beautifully animated all-ages anthology that deserves a place on the short list of great Christmas animated movies. If you have Kanopy, you can most likely watch it for free right now. #filmsky
"Hello, my name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father, Charlie Brown. Prepare to die."
He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died, Charlie Brown
[P] The truth is…you're the weak, and I am the tyranny of evil men. But I'm trying, Charlie Brown. I'm trying *real hard* to be the shepherd.
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"Hello, my name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father, Charlie Brown. Prepare to die."
I take it back.
Some movies would be better off Zaslaved.
Some movies would be better off Zaslaved.
Just when you thought Australian cinema couldn't get any worse...
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I take it back.
Some movies would be better off Zaslaved.
Some movies would be better off Zaslaved.
Okay, it's just going to be easier if we get a count of Bluesky users who *don't* feel called out by this post.
Anyone?
Anyone?
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Okay, it's just going to be easier if we get a count of Bluesky users who *don't* feel called out by this post.
Anyone?
Anyone?
"Nothing Like the Holidays" features an impressive cast, but it's a bit too disjointed to be one of the better dysfunctional holiday dramedies. #filmsky
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Distilled Concentrated Cheer, updated frequently between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas movie, TV, and book reviews, articles, fiction.
www.mainliningchristmas.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Nothing Like the Holidays" features an impressive cast, but it's a bit too disjointed to be one of the better dysfunctional holiday dramedies. #filmsky
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Five years on, @benitocereno.bsky.social's video lecture series THE MAGIC AND LEGENDS OF OLD CHRISTMAS is still the best and most accessible general survey of Christmas-adjacent holiday traditions and characters from around the world (predominantly central Europe).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
Magic and Legends of Old Christmas part 01: Christmas starts earlier than you think
YouTube video by Benito Cereno
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Five years on, @benitocereno.bsky.social's video lecture series THE MAGIC AND LEGENDS OF OLD CHRISTMAS is still the best and most accessible general survey of Christmas-adjacent holiday traditions and characters from around the world (predominantly central Europe).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
Two of the best animated Christmas movies ever made came out last year, but neither was a US production, so no one noticed.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Two of the best animated Christmas movies ever made came out last year, but neither was a US production, so no one noticed.
Four Christmas movies to know me by!
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Four Christmas movies to know me by!
That Nebula subscription keeps paying off.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
That Nebula subscription keeps paying off.
Chose?
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Chose?