festive cheer: welcome to the party...

this is, ahem, a holiday classic I watch every Christmas season

1998’s Die Hard is one of my favorite movies. It’s brilliantly directed by John McTiernan. It introduced us to Bruce Willis, action hero (he’d previously been known mostly for the screwball romantic-comedy detective TV series Moonlighting), and Alan Rickman, cinematic god. Along with Lethal Weapon, which had been released 16 months earlier, it launched …