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If Father Christmas is busy working with his toy-making elves in Lapland, who are all the Santas in stores, malls and grottoes?

The Finn's have long claimed the big man as their own and film-maker Jalmari Helander came up with a quirky answer to the multi-Santa problem in Rare Exports (2010).

Things might not be as cosy and cuddly as you think...

Out of all the festive movies I’ve seen over the years, it is Canadian Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story that captures the sense of anticipation from a kid’s-eye perspective better than anything else.

Roger Ebert speculated that “My guess is either nobody will go to see it, or millions of people will go to see it.” He was almost exactly right, but even he couldn’t predict the film’s longevity.

In Home Alone, screenwriter John Hughes and director Chris Columbus combine to take every parent’s nightmare and turn it into twinkly holiday fun.

Now 35 years old, it has become an annual tradition for many families and perhaps, Home Alone is just about the perfect festive film.

First broadcast on Channel 4 in 1982, The Snowman has aired every festive season since.

Like millions of families across the UK, the warm and melancholy adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ wordless picture book is a staple of our Christmases.

A Ghost for Christmas was a beloved series of BBC supernatural dramas broadcast through the 1970s, bringing eerie, atmospheric ghost stories to television audiences each winter. 

Often adapted from classic writers such as M.R. James, the series became a festive tradition, chilling, sometimes beautifully made and perfectly timed for those dark December nights.

The Hallmark Channel has been producing Christmas movies for over twenty years. There are now over 300 to choose from and 29 new offerings this year!

If you haven't yet seen one, which one do you choose? Well, we decided to start with 2023's A Biltmore Christmas.

Santa is well-known for being jolly, of course, but what if that guy turns out to be a homicidal maniac?

That is the fear we tap into with the peculiar horror sub-genre of Santa slasher movies.

Like many families in the UK, we would always have a cupboard full of goodies and sweets ready for Christmas. Invariably, one of the offerings would be a big tin of Quality Street chocolates.

The artwork on the tub evoked vintage times and perhaps due to this, I always thought of Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis as the Quality Street of movies.

Once broadcast and swiftly buried, the Star Wars Holiday Special has since gained mythic status among sci-fi fans. 

Let's take a look at why the part musical, part sitcom, and entirely surreal TV show refuses to fade from pop-culture memory.

It’s the festive season once again and movie buffs are gearing up for that big annual debate: Is Die Hard a Christmas film?

But there are voices out there also making a case for Lethal Weapon as an action-packed alternative to the standard Christmas fare...

Christmas is approaching as fast as The Polar Express. Soon we will all be curled up in comfy chairs to eat too much, drink a little and watch Elf, It's A Wonderful Life, Die Hard (is that a festive movie?) and of course Home Alone.

So, here are our recommended 'last order' dates for UK delivery by Christmas...

Hollywood has always been known for giving us good guys and bad guys, both on-screen and in real life.

As Keanu Reeves makes his return to comedy, playing an angel who loses his wings in Good Fortune, we take a look back at the career of one of Hollywood’s nicest dudes…