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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