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On the surface, Bad Santa might seem like the total opposite of the kind of wholesome entertainment that we traditionally associate with the holiday season. But, I’m here to argue that Bad Santa delivers festive...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....