Arthur Christmas
Arthur Christmas (James McAvoy), younger son of the current Santa (Jim Broadbent) is mortified to discover a child has been missed from Santa’s yearly rounds. With the help of the […]
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Dead End
On a Christmas Eve drive to the in-laws, a disgruntled father (Ray Wise) takes his family on a slay ride after chancing a shortcut for the first time in 20 […]
Jingle All the Way
The hottest August day in 17 years may be an odd time to review Jingle All the Way but the rosey-cheeked racists on TV have got us feeling all Christmassy. […]
Michael (1996)
There’s something fundamentally creepy and slightly sad about Hollywood’s obsession with angels meddling in human affairs – whether it’s Clarence showing George Bailey the dark timeline where his wife becomes […]
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Inside a snowflake, snowflake the Grinch (Jim Carrey) is triggered by the seasonal antics of the Christmas-loving Santaphiles in Whoville, the only place where Christmas doesn’t get earlier every year […]
Krampus: The Christmas Devil
Santa and his brother Krampus team up to ruin Christmas, Band Aid style. Originally released in 2013 but repackaged 2 years later for the sake of tricking people wanting to […]
Deep Red
A pianist (David Hemmings) witnesses a brutal murder in 1975 giallo Deep Red, which would technically make orange. Directed by Dario Argento with another progtastic score by Goblin, Deep Red […]
I’ve Never Seen… Elf
Welcome to a festive edition of the feature where we finally get round to a classic that’s passed us by, like the Marcus Brigstocke programme I’ve Never Seen Star Wars except we […]
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus meets The Thing in this 2010 Finnish holiday horror that I would have called Santa’s Grotty. From the director of Big Game, Rare Exports starts in much the same way: a […]
The Grinch
Liberal icon the Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) valiantly continues the war on Christmas by taking on Whoville, the Christmassiest town south of Lapland, home to the obsessively festive Whos. Their insufferable […]
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