Stock up on the Reese’s Pieces from all good cyber-candy emporiums now. So Steven Spielberg’s evergreen coming-of-age classic is perfect family viewing for a chilly late December morning. Taking in waifs and strays is what Christmas is all about – especially if they’ve travelled from across the galaxy. The cinematography, score, performances, locations and Robert Bolt screenplay all come together in a gorgeous few hours of widescreen telly. Quick, wake gran up! It’s David Lean’s sweeping romantic epic, starring the ridiculously good-looking duo of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie as lovers torn apart by time, distance and a Bolshevik revolution. Photograph: Renown Pictures Alastair Sim in Scrooge What better time to revisit the kit-off classic than at the arse-end of the year? One of the few movies to feature men taking their tops off and not revealing a gleaming set of granite-hewn abs, it’s here to put all our dad-bods into some kind of perspective in time for the next bag of Twiglets. It’s full of post-war British acting royalty like Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley and Michael Hordern (ask your grandpa), as well as the Ghosts of TV future (George Cole, aka Minder, and Patrick Macnee, aka Steed in The Avengers). To help whittle things down, we’ve scoured the listings and picked out a few must-see movies to catch over Christmas.Īlastair Sim makes the scroogiest of Scrooges in this wonderfully wry take on the much-taken-upon Dickens cautionary tale. There you will find things the streamers don’t offer, and they often come with handy ‘ad breaks’ that are purpose-built for a crisps mission, bathroom break, poking of logs or just to tweet: ‘Watching the telly! #YOLO’. But what’s even nicer? Going old-school and watching a movie on terrestrial television. With Netflix and Disney+, among other streamers, offering an array of on-demand festive films, you’ve already got a wealth of festive options at your disposal. Congratulations, you’re ready to level up and face the big boss of Christmas: the remote control. And, before we go further, in this home, Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and if you disagree, you can respectfully get out and write your name on the naughty list as you exit.You’ve ordered the turkey – or non-bird equivalent – hung the mistletoe and bought stamps for the cards, even if you’ve yet to actually write them. Remember when Little Zuzu heard an angel gets its wings at the end of It's a Wonderful Life? Or when Sarah Jessica Parker said she slept with Luke Wilson in The Family Stone, when in fact, all she did was blackout on Bud Heavies and fall asleep in his bed? Classic! Who could forget either?īelow are 60 offerings you can't go wrong with: the classics, a few musical specials, and a couple quirky outings to keep you and your family on the edge of your couch. The best kind of Christmas movie, rather, is something that enters your senses in new and surprising ways and then lingers the rest of the year. We say this as people who love the format: Nothing hurts worse than when you sit down to watch a Christmas movie and it's the same cookie cutter Hallmark offering that you've seen 100 times over. The holiday film is one of the rare genres of cinema that doesn't judge on the merit of prestige, but rather the potential to make your heart grow three sizes. If you're simply not having a wonderful Christmastime at this point in the season, you may need something stronger-like, say, a Christmas movie. ![]() As Paul McCartney sang in the worst Christmas song of all time, "The moon is right / The spirit's up / We're here tonight / And that's enough." With no offense to Macca, that might not be enough to get the festive spirit coursing through your veins.
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