The FORT90 FILM CLUB is back with yet another pair of movies that we can't reveal the titles of, though if you're a CLUB member (email fort90filmclub@gmail.com to join) or follow @fortninety on Twitter, you'll know ahead of time. But each month there's a theme, and given that it's December, aka tis the season...

MYSTERY MOVIE #1 is about a young boy who must use his bag of tricks (plus chest of toys) to deal with a home invasion. If that sounds an awful like the plot to a John Hughes Christmas classic, then it should. Cuz that film totally ripped off this one, to the point that the filmmaker took 20th Century Fox to court.

Though this film also features wonderful art direction, stellar cinematography, and an enchanting score, all of which helps to enhance the cartoony violence… with the recipient this time being a psychotic Santa, as opposed to a pair of bumbling burglars. As one person on Letterboxd sez, it's basically: "Home Alone, but you know, actually good."

MYSTERY MOVIE #2 is not so much a Christmas movie, just a film that happens to take place during Christmas, yet it genuinely (and brilliantly) succeeds in doing what every hackneyed holiday flick tries to do, the ones that try to give you the fuzzies but only succeeds in making your eyes roll.

Time once again from some rando on Letterboxd: "How can a movie look so tacky yet beautiful? Be so silly yet serious? Be so violent and yet achieve so much inner peace? ...This movie is a splat of infinite colours and wild situations, and by the time you get to the tear-jerker 'what the fuck'-reaction inducing ending, you look back and realise that huge explosion of colours is trying to show you people being people. Human beings learning to forgive themselves or others. Love trying to triumph where capitalism has made routines perfunctory and lifeless."