'Tis the week before Christmas, and there's a LOT to choose from coming to theaters. Our Indie Movie Guide and host Alicia Malone are here to save the smaller films from getting lost in the shuffle, and help make your moviegoing choices easier. 

In this episode, Alicia talks about the heartbreaking drama A Monster Calls, about a boy dealing with his mother's impending death by befriending a giant tree voiced by Liam Neeson. Neeson also happens to star in the other movie she highlights, Martin Scorsese's Silence, as a mentor to two Jesuit priests who are searching for him in Japan at a time when Catholicism was banned. Which leads us to what else Alicia covers this week: her favorite Scorsese movies that are available on VOD.