Some holiday entertainment

Greetings and salutations! Today we're going back in time to look at two movies from the nineties. Both are pretty damn good and well worth your time.

First up is Suicide Kings (1997).

The story of a group of collage age, well to do guys who kidnap a “retired” mafia boss, played by the unique Christopher Walken.

Walken spends nearly the entire film duct taped to a chair and yet he still manages to completely dominate the whole thing. Despite his mostly calm demeanor he's scarier than his main henchman Lono (Denis Leary), a man who shoots people with the same emotional response as someone scratching his nose.

The story unfolds beautifully and with great pacing so you never get bored, but it's not an action piece in any way. Nor is it a typical mobster movie. Suicide Kings stands on its own with no need for any excuses.

Great acting tops it off from all involved parties. Top notch movie in my opinion.

Our second entry for today is The Ref (1994).

What we have here is actually a Christmas movie, but one with a twist. Denis Leary (yup, him again) is Gus, a cat burglar forced to spend x-mas eve with a family he kidnaps in order to evade the police.

Although The Ref also stars Kevin Spacey, it's Leary's enraged and frustrated rantings that makes this film so funny. If you're a fan of the mans stand-up, it's a must-see.

It's not in any way a “Great Film” but none the less a surprisingly warm holiday movie with out any of the typical cliches that saturates the x-man market.

Other highlights include a wildly inaccurate “Scandinavian Christmas Dinner” and I do mean inaccurate, and possibly the nastiest woman found anywhere in film outside of serial killer and holocaust movies. This hag is truly vile.

If you're in the mood for some holiday fun, and it is Christmas this week after all, do check it out.

That's it for this week, happy watching and have a great Holiday you all, where ever you may be!

Peace out.