Episode 11: 2025 Holiday Special

It’s a very festive holiday episode of Tickets Secured!

We’ve got games (FMK - 2025 movie edition), holiday movie watching recommendations (best movies to watch during holiday plane travel and best new releases to take your teenage cousins to, to name a few) and lots of fun reflections on Charlene & Jackie's inaugural year of cinema podcasting.

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:

14:40: “Art by committee is a really bad idea” - Kelly Reichardt on why no one is allowed in the edit room with her

19:51 “Baby, baby, baby, baby baby” - Reese Witherspoon goes OFF in Walk The Line

21:55 The scene from The Shining (in Spanish!) that Jackie mentions seeing on Telemundo as a child

27:56 Vogue: Greta Lee Makes 6 Movie Inspired Cocktails

39:50 Christmas Will Break Your Heart (which is actually by LCD Soundsystem)

41:18 The Connecticut Movie Hall of Fame 

45:43 George Blanchine’s The Nutcracker featuring Macaulay Culkin, which was released theatrically!

47:01 The Making of Eyes Wide Shut - Lisa Leone discusses taking hundreds of photos and conducting research for Kubricks Ext NYC Set

49:52 The Plaza’s Home Alone Special Offer, which includes limo ride, cheese pizza, and a ‘decadent sundae’

1:00:13 Aunt Cinema and Bad Dad Cinema

1:01:33 Crabs with Top Hats: One of Emerald Fennell’s many crimes

Full List of Movies, TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this episode:

  • Universal Language

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

  • Opus

  • The Wedding Banquet 

  • Jane Austen Wrecked My Life 

  • Sorry, Baby

  • The Sparrow In The Chimney 

  • The History of Sound

  • The Mastermind

  • Sentimental Value 

  • Jay Kelly

  • Walk The Line

  • A Star is Born

  • The Green Knight

  • The Shining

  • Crazy Rich Asians

  • Bel Canto

  • Bridget Jones’s Diary 

  • Theater Camp

  • Clueless

  • Silence Of The Lambs

  • Tick, Tick…Boom!

  • Girls Trip

  • The Tragedy of Macbeth

  • Hedda

  • Hustlers

  • Ingrid Goes West

  • In The Heights 

  • Juliet and Romeo

  • Late Fame

  • Kokuho

  • Sunset Boulevard 

  • Jaws

  • Mamma Mia!

  • Ladybird 

  • La Chimera

  • La La Land

  • Late Fame

  • Licorice Pizza

  • Little Women (ALL OF THEM)

  • Magic Mike (ALL OF THEM)

  • Materialists

  • Past Lives

  • Mean Girls

  • Mickey 17

  • Midsommar

  • Mistress America

  • Minding the Gap

  • Mountainhead

  • My Best Friends Wedding

  • Nightbitch

  • Notting Hill

  • Obvious Child

  • Ocean’s 11

  • Ocean’s 8

  • The Great Muppet Caper 

  • On The Rocks

  • Phantom Thread

  • The House of Yes

  • Planes Trains and Automobiles

  • Home For The Holidays

  • You’ve Got Mail

  • The Menu

  • Sinners

  • The Da Vinci Code

  • The Eternal Daughter

  • The Souvenir & The Souvenir Part II

  • The Farewell

  • The Favourite 

  • The French Dispatch 

  • The Piano Teacher

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

  • The Worst Person in the World

  • White Noise

  • When Harry Met Sally

  • Trolls

  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie 

  • Hamnet

  • The Family Stone

  • The Ice Storm

  • Christmas in Connecticut 

  • Mystic Pizza

  • The Haunting in Connecticut 

  • A Christmas Story

  • The Nutcracker (1993)

  • Merrily We Roll Along

  • Die Hard

  • Eyes Wide Shut

  • Big

  • Home Alone

  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

  • Napoleon 

  • Wicked

  • Wicked: For Good

  • Cruella

  • Sense & Sensibility

  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

  • Pulp Fiction

  • Grindhouse 

  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

  • Now You See Me: Now You Don’t

  • Marty Supreme

  • Ella McCay

  • Wuthering Heights

  • Marie Antoinette 

  • David Blaine: Street Magic

Thank you for listening and supporting the pod on its first year!

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