Count down to Christmas with favourites selected by Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, John Waters, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha, Will Sharpe and more
The Christmas movie has, in recent years, become its own industrial complex, algorithmically churned out by streaming services to hit various subscriber demographic sweet spots.
This film was actually banned in the UK during the “video nasty” panic. This film isn’t nasty. It’s delightful to me. What’s nasty is all the other sentimental Christmas movies that make you gag. They should have the opposite of the nasties – they should have had a ban on the whimsical. That’s the one I’d join.At this time of year, on a cold night, I find myself wanting to be swept up in the world of.
For me the perfect Christmas film is something that brings the whole family together, takes us through a rollercoaster of emotions and leaves us all tearily hugging one another or jumping for joy. So one day I hope to find myself in the ideal scenario: watchingwith my wife and my daughters, making our way through a feast of snacks, all trying not to cry when Aragorn says to the hobbits: “My friends, you bow to no one.
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