This article explores the diverse landscape of Christmas movies, highlighting different genres and offerings for viewers.
Truth is, the Christmas movie isn’t a genre so much as a freewheeling grab-bag linked only by a date. And with horror, action, comedy, romance and goodwill all part of the mix, there’s truly something for everyone – maybe even you, Scrooge. didn’t make the list this year (purely because it’s already a fixture of Christmas movie nights), but another production by its director, Richard Curtis, has. Brian Cox, is Netflix’s newest family festive offering.
Based on Curtis’ own trilogy of children’s books, the film offers a collection of stories about a seaside town sent into crisis mode after being hit by a blizzard. In typical Curtis fashion, it involves people falling hopelessly in love and other high jinks of the heart, but it ultimately explores the joy and complexity of Christmas … as well as a truck-tonne of turkeys. Nancy Meyers was already the queen of rom-coms, but then she went ahead and made one of the best Christmas films ever. In this 2006 movie, two lovelorn ladies, one in a US mansion and the other in a quaint English cottage, decide to swap houses for Christmas. Despite wanting to escape men and all their drama, they both end up head over heels (if you pay attention, there’s also some self-growth in there). If its A-list cast, including Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black, isn’t enough to sell you, then its extreme Christmas cosy-factor should. And the scene in which Law puts a napkin over his face and pretends to be “Mr Napkin Head” for his two kids will melt the heart of even the nastiest Scrooge. If schmaltz isn’t your thing, Magnus Martens’ English-Norwegian horror comedy will do just the trick. An American man moves his family to a small Norwegian town after inheriting a family estate. They soon discover the barn is the home of a mischievous elf – a creature intent on getting rid of the family for good. There’s bloodied tinsel, killer icicles and gun-toting elf gangs. It’s a triumph of festive cinem
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