So no more running.

I am to misbehave.

Shit, and your mother!

God damn it, I'm sorry myself into a criminal institution.

Is it any wonder then that I've chosen not to learn the intricacies of an antiquated and idiotic system?

I think not. Hello and welcome to Maximum Film, episode 426. I'm your host, Kevin Avery, and joining me as always. He's a brilliant film critic and author of the book, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas. And fun fact, if you rearrange the letters of his name, just so, they spell D'Raldi Alonzo. It's Alonzo Donzo Doralde. What's good? Oh, I love an anagram. Well, I'll tell you, Kevin, pursuant to my book that is out, I love Christmas creep, okay? I have heard people complaining to me about I can't believe it's in the stores already, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, hey, have we met? Why are you telling me this? Like, I'm going to sympathize. I'm here for it. Second of all, I love it. I love that, like, I went into a William Sonoma last week. And, like, they had it. They had your, like, Grinch-shaped pie tin servers, whatever.

Like, you name it.

Like the holiday stuff is out.

And this is just like the first wave.

There's more coming.

I know.

I just got back from the south where the little Debbie cakes are out in full,

uh,

forish,

including something called a, uh,

uh,

uh, uh, a cherry's something. It sounded like an old school dessert, like cherries jubilee or something. Jubilee, yeah. But I forget what they call. Oh, no, no, cherry cordial. That was it. Oh, man. Cherry cordial, which is basically a, a, a, a, a, a, a, moon pie with kind of red whipped cream in the middle of it that vaguely has a cherry thing going on.

Anyway, it's all there. I'm loving it. I love this period of the year in my job because like suddenly after months of waiting for something cool to come out, I saw like three movies today that are arguably among the best of 2025. So, you know, sure,

why not? Let's just do it all up and then collapse in January. There you go. I never got

into the Little Debbie, right? Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. That's, that's a lie. You liar.

I just had a flashback. I went to college in the South. I went to Tuskegee University. And I was introduced to Little Debbie Snack. Then you've met Debbie. I just had completely blocked. I used to house those things on the regular. Oh my God. Wait, what were you? Were you an oatmeal cream pie guy? Nutty bar, Star Crunch, perhaps. No, they were just, they were the, essentially they were like the ho-hoes. They were just the round. The Swiss cake roll. The Swiss cake, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. Oh, man. I love a zebra cake. A little deba zebra cake. They taste like nothing.

I've had them again as an adult and was like, oh, this is going to be so good.

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