Even Macaulay Culkin didn’t know the gangster movie in ‘Home Alone’ is fake

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It’s the end of the year, but it isn’t too late to learn something new before 2019! 

Seth Rogen — and a number of Twitter users — didn’t know that the old movie Kevin McCallister watches in Home Alone isn’t a real movie. In a tweet, Rogen said he believed Angels With Filthy Souls was an actual movie his “entire childhood.” 

And Macaulay Culkin, who plays Kevin in the film, did too! 

Me too! https://t.co/Y24cIHLNlM

— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) December 26, 2018

In fact, the movie-within-a-movie is a parody of old gangster films like the 1938 film Angels With Dirty Faces. The fake film is the source of one of the most iconic holiday phrases in pop culture: “Keep the change, ya filthy animal.”  Read more…

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The best gifts for all you holiday-movie-obsessed filthy animals

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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. 

It’s that time of year again. You’re permitted to huddle up on the couch — roast beast from Whoville in one hand, a moose-shaped mug of eggnog in the other — and watch a whole bunch of movies you saw at this exact time last year.

From The Santa Clause to Home Alone and The Grinch to Jingle All the Way, these movies are the ones you know back to front. You probably routinely quote them out loud, to the detriment of your relationships. 

And if it’s not you annually weeping through Love Actually and The Holiday, or demanding someone listen to your pitch on Die Hard as the ultimate holiday movie, that person is definitely someone you know. Read more…

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