It’s time for another Notcool presents brunch show. Join us for lazy Sunday morning with Jon Favreau’s holiday classic Elf. Per usual we’ll have mimosas, coffee and donuts on hand.

A cast lead by David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano (Outrage) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed the film’s outstanding score), and a script co-written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg (The Man Who Fell to Earth) make for a truly international production that explores Japan’s relationship to the west, and the consequences of repressed homosexuality.

After a reckless paintball game causes police to mistake millionaire Blake Thorn (Hulk Hogan) for a terrorist, Thorn disguises himself as a mall Santa to avoid capture. But when his trash-chute escape goes wrong, a brain damaged Thorn believes he was the real Santa all along. After beating few crooks for a cheering crowd, Thorn decides to use his strength for good, and rescue Sarah (Mila Kunis) and her orphan friends from the evil land developer of Ebner Frost and his geologist henchmen. I swear we didn’t make any of that up.

In Satoshi Kon’s unconventional holiday classic, three people have their lives upended when they find a child in a dumpster on Christmas Eve. Without homes or families of their own, they decide to solve the mystery of the abandoned child, and set out in search of her parents. What follows is funny, heartfelt and harrowing in equal measure, and another reminder of Kon’s singular talent.

A kid friendly marketing push left audiences sorely unprepared for Batman Returns, and the reaction was… mixed. As writer Daniel Water recalled “it was like, kids crying, people acting like they’d been punched in the stomach and like they’d been mugged. Part of me relished that reaction, and part of me to this day is like, oops.” But 30 years later, we can judge the movie for what it is: a strange, striking, gothic Christmas mood piece that stands among Burtons best.