75 m. ago Dame Helen Mirren gasps in shock as she steps into 'beautiful and iconic' Repair Shop shop barn in first look at BBC's Christmas special

Dame Helen Mirren was overwhelmed by the 'beautiful and iconic' Repair Shop barn as she stepped inside to film this year's Christmas special.

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4 h. ago Best films on Disney Plus from Christmas favourites to 'next level funny' movie

Disney Plus is home to a whole host of classic films, documentaries and TV series families can sink their teeth into over the Christmas period

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9 h. ago ‘Criminally below the radar’: readers on their best underrated Christmas films

After Guardian writers picked their favourite lesser-known festive movies, readers shoutout Klaus, The Ref and moreI thought a real modern hidden gem is All Is Bright starring Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti as two down-on-their-luck Christmas tree sellers. It’s perfectly played by both, with Rudd putting in, not his usual “puppy dog everyone wants to be your mate” role but a sarcastic turn, complementing Giamatti’s Christmas grinch. More a black comedy (by Hollywood standards), it’s an excellent film. Andyouwillknowme Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Top 5 best Christmas films of all time as big day approaches

Christmas is a festive time of year, and what better way to get into the cheery spirit than with some movies that show the beauty and importance of being together.

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29 h. ago The Snowman fans left in stitches after spotting 'rude detail' in 1980s Christmas film

Christmas wouldn't be the same without watching The Snowman, but the festive animated film has managed to leave viewers in stitches years after its release as a "rude detail" has been spotted

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33 h. ago ‘A festive tour de force’: Guardian writers on their favorite underrated Christmas movies

From a John Cusack 80s teen comedy to the other Frank Capra Christmas crowd-pleaser, here are some seasonal picks you might not have seenSomething that bugs me about a lot of contemporary Christmas movies is how insistently self-conscious they are about the whole production – the ostentatious decorations, checklist of soundtrack chestnuts, the dialogue about the true meaning of the holidays that sounds canned even when the movie is trying to acknowledge its various stressors. Maybe because the idea of a holiday movie hadn’t yet ossified into routine, I’ve found that the versions of these films that came out in the 1940s tend to approach Christmas from more inventive, less neurotically obsessive angles. One of my favorite discoveries in sifting through 1940s Christmas comedies is It Happened on Fifth Avenue, a 1947 semi-romantic farce with a great starting hook: a cheerful vagrant Aloysius T McKeever (Victor Moore) winters in New York every year, because he knows a way into a particu...

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43 h. ago Keira Knightley makes surprise Love Actually revelation two decades on from film's release

Keira Knightley was just 17 when she starred in Love Actually and 22 years on, millions watch the film every Christmas - but the actress is not one of them!

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53 h. ago Worst Christmas movies ever made including 'abominable' Mila Kunis film

Reddit users have been discussing their choices for the worst Christmas films they've ever seen, with selections ranging from the dull to the downright strange

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66 h. ago Bump: A Christmas Film review – the most masochistic holiday ever?

Oly and Santi take their newborn on a hellish cruise halfway around the world. But amid the torture there are beautiful moments to treasure in this much-loved Aussie drama As a teenager, Oly Chalmers-Davis weathered her fair share of motherhood-related horrors. For a start, the high-achieving 16-year-old went into labour in the school toilets, having not even realised she was pregnant. Not long afterwards, she was forced to tell her boyfriend he wasn’t the father – the baby was the product of a fling with another classmate. Then, unable to entertain the prospect of her perfect grades slipping, she decided to juggle studying with looking after a newborn, all the while navigating mastitis, mockery from her classmates (including some inventively mean-spirited memes) and a rocky on-off romance with her child’s dad, Santi.After five series following Oly (Nathalie Morris) and Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr) as they struggled to adjust to parenthood, hit Australian comedy-drama Bump wrapped thing...

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3 d. ago Christmas TV preview 2025: Paul Whitelaw's guide to the best festive viewing

As we collectively shut the door to the world for a few days, Paul Whitelaw has trawled the yuletide TV listings to bring these highlights

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4 d. ago What Christmas film locations REALLY look like for the rest of the year

For those craving a taste of Christmas magic beyond the TV screen this season, these real-life filming locations from seven iconic festive flicks make for the perfect set-jetting holiday.

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5 d. ago Elf child star is unrecognisable and has wildly different career 22 years later

Daniel Tay played Buddy's half-brother Michael in the beloved 2003 Christmas film, but has since left acting behind to pursue an impressive new career away from the cameras

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5 d. ago All the south London locations spotted in new Netflix Christmas film

All the south London locations spotted in new Netflix Christmas film  News Shopper

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6 d. ago Every Christmas film you can watch for free including family classic and action thriller

Christmas is just under two weeks away and there's plenty of family favourites and classic movies to watch in the run up.

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7 d. ago Goodbye June review – Kate Winslet’s Christmas heartwarmer is like a two

Star turns from Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough and Toni Colette can’t stop cartoony sentimentality smothering this film directed by Winslet and written by her son Joe AndersKate Winslet’s feature directing debut is a family movie, scripted by her son Joe Anders; it’s a well-intentioned and starrily cast yuletide heartwarmer, like a two-hour John Lewis Christmas TV ad without the logo at the end. There are one or two nice lines and sharp moments but they are submerged in a treacly soup of sentimentality; in the end, I couldn’t get past the cartoony quasi-Richard Curtis characterisation and the weird not-quite-earthlingness of the people involved. Having said this, I am aware of having been first in the queue to denigrate Winslet’s Christmas film The Holiday, that is regarded by many as one of the most successful films of all time.Helen Mirren is the June of the title, an affectionate but sharp-tongued matriarch who is diagnosed with terminal cancer in the run-up to Christmas, and h...

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7 d. ago 'Phenomenal' Christmas film now streaming and it feels 'like a warm hug'

A "heartwarming British classic" has been hailed as "the best Christmas movie of all time" by fans as they rush to watch it.

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7 d. ago Netflix's 'perfect family Christmas film' with Succession legend now streaming

Netflix has dropped a Christmas film from Love Actually director Richard Curtis, with fans labelling it as the 'best Christmas movie of all time'.

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7 d. ago 'I starred in iconic Christmas film but I never watch it for one reason'

The stars of one of the most popular Christmas films of all time says she hardly ever watches the movie despite being a popular choice for families over the festive season

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7 d. ago Home Alone fans spot error in film and claim it has 'ruined Christmas'

Home Alone is a Christmas classic, but fans of the film have recently spotted a glaring error. After noticing the blunder, some claim it's "ruined" the festive season for them

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8 d. ago Inside The Holiday icon Kate Winslet's first Christmas film in almost 20 years

Goodbye June not only stars Titanic legend Kate Winslet but has been directed by the award-winning actress as well.

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