“An angry wish brings a family’s Christmas ornaments to life, unleashing havoc on Christmas Eve.”

I guess I’m watching holiday movies early.

Directed and VFX Supervised by Gregory Oehler, whose Mammal Studios has created effects for The Walking Dead: Worlds Beyond, Black Widow, Asura, Men In Black 3 and many more movies, this is the story of Meredith (Alicia Blasingame as an adult, Marla Robison as a teenager, Payton Sweeney as a kid) and Shannon (Autumn Harrison as an adult, Caitlin Charles as a teenager, Kynlee Heiman as a kid), two sisters who have never gotten along. Even the death of their mother Jean (Elyse Mirto), which should bring them together, has found them further apart.

When their father Pat (Michael Paré) brings the whole family together for the holidays, an errand wish on an ornament given to the family by The Trickster (Marian Elizabeth) unleashes a deadly array of Christmas tree ornaments. That allows the Mammal team to create a series of wild-looking things on the tree that come to life and attempt to destroy the family and even erase them from one another’s memories.

Written by Liam Finn, this is a movie about crafting, family in-fighting and what it takes to have people get along over the November and December weeks where everyone has to come together and pretend to get along. It’s not as scary as Krampus but has some of the same feel while remaining high energy throughout.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Big Bruh is from Bento Box, the same people who brought you Bob’s Burgers, Duncanville, The Great North and Housebroken on Fox and Pastacolypse and Millenial Hunter on Tubi.

Created by writer, stand-up comic and Duncanville co-producer Jerron Horton. Big Bruh is described as “a satirical comedy about a famous, undefeated boxer who is as ignorant as he is materialistic, struggling to find common ground with the bratty kid with high morals he’s paired with through the Big Bruh program.”

Randy “The Bone Stretcher” Bowers (Byron Bowers) is in the fight of his career against champion Money Montez Sheffield (Killer Mike), who takes a knee rather than box him. He claims that Bowers isn’t the kind of man who is even deserving of the belt and when Bowers wins by forfeit, the championship that he’s wanted all along rings hollow. He’s not the champion in his heart until he defeats Montez. To get the match he wants, he has to prove himself by becoming Big Bruh to Nikki (Kristin Dodson), a young girl who is not impressed by his status or bank account.

Plus, there’s MyBoy (Fahim Anwar) and the rest of his entourage to deal with, as well as his trainer Granny (Punkie Johnson) who is looking for the next depressed young man to mold into a boxing champion.

Directed by Jason Schwarz (Millenial Hunter) and written by Horton, this is only about an hour of your life and there are a few laughs in it. It’s a cute idea and I like that Tubi can be a channel for animated movies like this.

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Yes, there were traveling pants that girls of all sizes and shapes fit in, now there’s an engagement dress that has gotten women engaged for decades and it’s in a Tubi movie.

The dress didn’t work for Claudia (Angel Prater) whose boyfriend Mike (Sterling Sulieman) dumped her at a wedding and went right back to doing the electric slide. Now, she’s at the wedding of her best friend Barbie (Cathy Marks), acting as the event planner while Barbie’s brother Preston (Mike Manning) will be the caterer. They’ve always had something for one another yet Barbie hasn’t allowed either to date.

Everyone is in one place for the wedding with Mike falling back in love with Claudia, Preston falling for Claudia and Claudia, well, that’s why you watch the movie.

This was directed by Rachel Annette Helson (The Girl In the Window) and written by Alexa Droubay. It’s a romcom that has what you expect — love lost, love rekindled, exploration of the stars, you know, all of those things. That said, it’s a family-friendly movie that has plenty of good messages about finding the right person hidden amongst the usual Tubi Original movies that are about husbands and wives killing one another.

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People seem gleeful that superhero movies aren’t doing as well, as if it’s fun to ruin someone’s party. These are the same people who make fun of girls for liking Taylor Swift, post mean things on holidays and during the Super Bowl, and generally are the ones I hide or eventually unfriend online.

Look, life is short. Like what you like.

It’s OK to like superheroes. I mean, isn’t Hercules and every peplum character a superhero? Aren’t comic books modern myth? Thinking that there’s only one kind of comic book movie is like thinking there’s only one kind of animated movie.

And you know, you don’t have to like everything. Every movie is not for you.

But don’t you have to see too much to get this movie?

I never watched WandaVision, Ms. Marvel or the Captain Marvel movie and somehow, I really had fun with this movie. To be fair, I can also discuss ultra nerdified Marvel mutant history like how Cable is older than Cyclops despite being his son, you know? But you don’t need to know how Jean Grey wasn’t the Phoenix but an aspect of her or even care about comics to enjoy this.

Carol Danvers is Captain Marvel (Bree Larson). She’s been getting used to being back on Earth after thirty years gone thanks to being transformed into a Kree, one of the major alien races of the Marvel Universe. After her initial movie, she went back and destroyed the Supreme Intelligence that was the ruler of that alien empire which ended up causing a war that blackened out the sun, took away the oceans and ruined the air of Hala, the Kree homeworld.

Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) is an astronaut for S.A.B.E.R. whose mother was Carol’s best friend. Carol had left her behind after promising to come back, missing Monica’s mother’s death, which Monica also missed due to her being erased by Thanos.

Kamala Khan is Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellini), a Pakistani-American who has been given a bangle that unlocks the power to create hard light objects. She’s as young as the kids watching this movie and in awe of the other superheroes. She’s a real girl in a very comic book world, complete with a family — father Yusuf (Zenobia Shroff ), mother Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff) and brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh).

As the story opens, Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton)* has been opening portals that weaken time and space — definitely a theme in the last year of these movies — and has the same bangle as Ms. Marvel. She refers to Captain Marvel as the Annihilator and begins destroying the worlds that Carol loves most — Skrull refugee planet Tarnax**, Aladna*** and Earth — to take the air, water and sunlight.

The Marvels also have to solve Carol’s feelings of being a failure, Monica’s loss of her aunt and Kamala’s hero worship to become a team. They also have to figure out why they keep switching places like Rick Jones and Mar-Vell.

I loved the Aladna scenes, a planet where everyone sings. It was like that in the comic and it’s silly, sure, but works within the movie. Prince Yan in the comics came from a planet where only women could choose their mates. He eventually married a Skrull named Tic and abolished the rules that only women could pick their husbands. That said, you don’t need to know any of that. You just need to know that this scene is a blast filled with big action and even some funny comedy where Monica asked Kamala if this is all fueling her fan fiction.

Of course the good guys win, but the end of the movie seemingly sets up…something you should definitely see in the theater.

Directed by Nia DaCosta, who wrote the movie along with Megan McDonnell and Elissa Karasik, this movie just sails along. Does the villain not get enough motivation, as some say? I mean, Carol ruined her entire world. I saw one review that said, “hacked to pieces in post” and “We could’ve had Dune Part Two this week but we got this instead.”

I don’t know how you can dislike a movie where hundreds of alien cats eat people set to “Memory” from Cats. Or one where a singing space prince gives a teenage girl a magical fighting scarf. I get the feeling that bad reviews for this are either going with the flow or would be bad regardless because people are on the wrong end of liking comic book movies.

And that’s fine. You shouldn’t need anyone to love your culture to keep on loving it. I can’t even imagine if we got a movie like this during the 70s made for TV movies where Spider-Man had a grappling hook or during all the cash-ins of the 80s that ignored the source material or even movies where the heroes didn’t get their costumes or stories right.

If you love comics, we’re lucky to see what we love communally on the big screen.

And if you don’t, there are a million other movies for you.

Find what you love and love it.

PS: This is far enough to spoil one thing: Lucky the Pizza Dog showing up in a scene that echoes how Nick Fury — I didn’t even mention how fun Samuel Jackson is in this movie because he’s so effortlessly good — found the Avengers was great. And the next spoiler was so good I clapped like a demented Charles Foster Kane.

*If you’re wondering who she is, she appeared in about two Marvel stories. In the comics, Dar-Benn is the pink-skinned Kree who killed Clumsy Foulup — yes, really, that’s his name — and General Dwi-Zan using a robotic Silver Surfer. He was killed during the Kree-Shi’ar War by Deathbird.

**In the comics, Tarnax was the star system that the Skrulls — who are the enemies of the Kree — came from. All of the Skrull homeworlds are also called Tarnax, like Tarnax IV, which was chowed down on by Galactus.

***Aladna is where Prince Yan comes from in the comics, too. Except there, he was engaged to Lila Cheney, a space-touring musician with her band Cats Dancing. Yes, I knew that without looking it up, I was a virgin until I was 24.

I’m always amazed when a Tubi movie ends up feeling like a giallo, at least in plot. Famous writer William Law (Charles Malik Whitfield) accidentally kills his wife Jennifer (Veronika Bozeman) when they’re fighting over him leaving her for Kaitlyn (LaRita Shelby). He thinks she’s dead, so he does what bad giallo husbands do. He throws her off a boat and goes on with his life, working with his friend Kenny — they’re both drunk before his bar even opens figuring this out — and become even richer by writing the story of what just happened as his latest novel.

But what if Jennifer wasn’t dead?

Chris Stokes keeps making Tubi movies and I keep watching them. This does flirt with Italian psychosexual horror, as the cops are uniformly dumb and there is some fashion. But really, it’s just a dumb man thinking he’s smarter than the woman who helped make him. I kind of loved the book publisher pretty much telling William that being married made him a bad writer and that he needed to do something about it.

I’m also amazed that this has a big enough budget to have cover songs of Billy Paul’s “Me and Mrs. Jones” and Kanye West’s “Monster.”

As with all Tubi originals, this has somewhat of an open ending, so I can only imagine that we will soon get Still Here 2: I’m Still Here, Y’all, to be followed by Yo, Still Here: Still Here 3. If Chris Stokes would like, I’ll write both of these movies for him.

The only downside I can say with this movie is that the flashbacks get really confusing to the point that it’s hard to tell where we are in the story. The time and date help, but it’s pretty hard to understand at a few points. Also: who reads his own book at the bar to pick up women? The heroine of this should have known what she was getting into.

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The caddies of Old Glory Holes Golf Club are being killed off. Welles Landon (Jim Gordon), the owner, doesn’t want his members to have to see death. There’s also a big tournament coming and the murders would get in the way. Hopefully, personal assistant Ms. Flannager (Ilene Sullivan) and groundskeeper Hambone (Nick Twist) can stop whatever is happening.

Hambone might be the reason behind all of this terror. His new lawn spray has turned the once nice and cuddly gophers into human-mesticating monsters. Maybe Landon can build a wall and get the gophers to pay for it.

We’ll remember the partying caddies — Smitty (John Evans), Hoh Boy (Dave Lavelle), Dim (David Olsen Jr.), Fingers (Travis Frank) and Biggles (Mike Paquin) — that have lost their lives so that these gophers can party and sneak into convenience stores in trenchcoats to get beer with a fake ID.

Some may watch this movie and think how goofy it all is. They have such a small worldview and should not be trusted. You should not watch a movie with them. I bet they never played putt putt ever. Get new friends and watch this movie a lot.

The Wild Eye blu ray of this movie has director and producer commentary, behind the scenes footage, an Old Glory Holes commercial, Caddy Hack Rap, Balls Deep Karaoke, Brew Break Drinking Game, a slipcase and a folded poster. You can get it from Diabolik DVD.

Directed by Bruno Hernández and Damián Romay and written by Philip Lawrence, I am shocked that this entire film was not created by artificial intelligence. The last part of the movie has many twists and turns that you honestly lose track of who you can trust, who is right, who is the villain and if we should even care about Rex, who often acts like the worst person in the world and one who you really could see sleeping with a girl who says no. Then again, the scene where Darla blackmails Amelia only to collapse because she’s pregnant? That’s why I watch Tubi Originals.

No human being acts like anyone in this movie. Everybody hates everyone, everyone is horrible, everyone is at their highest level of drama at all times, people made shady business deals and then scream at each other, all while a strange old man that owes something to someone is involved in everyone’s dirty laundry.

It’s a lot like where I grew up.

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Stephanie (Vanessa Simmons) and Irvine Douglas (Jerome Ro Brooks) have been raising their developmentally challenged son Gerald (Perry Madison) with the help of their nanny Gloria. However, she has decided to move back in with her mother and this places their round the clock care needs in question. Luckily — well, you’ll see — Irvine and Gerald soon meet Olivia Stockton (Tationna Bosier), who is working in a coffee shop. Gerald seems to like her and her resume looks good.

Maybe you should do a background check.

As Olivia deals with David, who suffers from asphasia, which is a brain damage-related injury that causes speech issues, she starts taking over the house. After all, Stephanie is busy. And doesn’t Irvine look like a strong man to marry?

Meanwhile, her brother David (Maurice G. Smith) has been cleaning up her crimes since childhood and Detective Tonya (Jennifer Freeman) has been after him ever since. After all, he and his sister killed and covered up the murder of her best friend Amber Stevens. He’s still wearing her friendship bracelet to this day.

Directed and written by Bobby and Renee S. Warren Peoples (he’s directed 65 movies, she’s got 59), this movie sets up all the things that you want from the bad nanny genre. Does she make out with the dad? Does the developmentally challenge child finally stand up to her? Does the mom try and stop her? It does all that and has David, who only says the words “Tee tee water,” which is his “I am Groot.” He uses it throughout the movie to convey so many different things.

Tee tee water. Yeah, explain that to me.

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