Flixgiving

Below are 10 suggestions for movies to watch over the Thanksgiving weekend along with my brilliantly compelling reasons for doing so.

Adjust your Netflix queue accordingly.

Movie	Why
Groundhog Day	Because you are not a slave to the calendar.
The Shining	Psychosis and homicide aside, it's nice to see a family spending time together.
The Blues Brothers	After fighting the holiday travel traffic, the car chases* are quite cathartic.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	Give the kids a reason to fear sweets = more pie for you.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Watch Richard Dreyfuss demonstrate proper mashed potato sculpting technique.
Waterworld	It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a turkey.
Tom Jones	You'll feel significantly less awkward about your own family dinner.
The Matrix	Watching Keanu chow down on a big bowl of “single-celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals” will make you feel a lot better about yet another day of leftovers.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World	It works equally well as either preparation for or justification against participating in the Black Friday sales.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving	It simply wouldn't be Thanksgiving otherwise.

 

Today's lesson: Making lists is fun.

Next: Probably not another list. Probably.
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*Not enough? Check out Ronin. Thirty minutes of plot, an hour and a half of car chases. Bless you Mr. Mamet. Bless you, sir.