Looking into Christmas alternatives gives you a whole new lease of life in terms of festive viewing that remains relevant to the season but actually offers the chance of a half decent film – as, let’s face it, most out-and-out Christmas films are pretty dire. Culture Television Music Arts Books Gaming Radio Christmas 2018: the best films on TV this year, from Paddington to Star Wars Here’s every film screening on the main channels over the. Surely the solution is to acknowledge that both views have some merit – but to move on by creating a new, separate category to describe films which prominently feature Christmas but aren’t particularly Christmassy, films which find their main focus elsewhere: ‘Christmas-adjacent movies’, as it were. Published in the July 10 & 17, 2023 Issue.
Opponents furiously insist that a proper Christmas film shouldn’t feature machine guns and explosions, but instead depict rather more heartwarming scenes. The 100 Best Christmas Movies of All Time.
Some claim this means it should take its place as a festive staple alongside more conventional classics of the season, It’s a Wonderful Life et al. It’s become one of the traditions of the modern festive period: arguing about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. The explosive 1988 film features, you may recall, a vest-clad Bruce Willis confounding Alan Rickman and his terrorist cohorts’ evil plans in a Los Angeles skyscraper on Christmas Eve – and it’s peppered throughout with fir trees and tinsel.
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