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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....

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...

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...