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Christmas films have long given us schmaltz. Oh. What. Fun. gives us disenchanted, disgruntled maternal point of view.
What about those who are sick of all the tinsel and baubles? They need the Christmas-adjacent film: films set during Christmas, that aren’t really about Christmas.
This tender family drama uses observational techniques to create atmosphere over story.
The new film from Stan manages to bend the rules of the Christmas genre without breaking them.
A Savage Christmas would give Crackers a run for its money as the worst Australian Christmas film to date.
While the film’s terrorists may have been fake, the message about the political climate of the time is real.
New independent Aussie film Christmess is emotionally engrossing and satisfying in its combination of melancholy tinged with the vague outlines of hope.
We are unsurprisingly attracted to the familiar.
It’s a favourite Christmas film in households across the world – but how did the muppet take on Charles Dickens become such an unlikely enduring classic? A Jim Henson expert explains.
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
An academic has developed a system to measure how much the golden ratio aligns with the plot elements of our all-time favourite Christmas films.
It’s the story of a man who just wants to get home for Christmas.
The real problem may be that a burden of representation means these narratives must ‘do it all’
Home Alone is a beloved Christmas classic now 30-years-old – but it gets dark. Really dark.
For so many people, Christmas movies are a link with a happy and safe childhood home.
We have an innate desire to be reminded of darkness and mortality during the festive season.
Most modern Christmas films angle for comedy with a touch of schmaltz, but literary Christmases frequently tap into the anxiety and sadness that can accompany the “happiest time of year”.
Christmas is a time for nostalgia, a time where even the most hardened cynics among us might reflect on our Christmases past with a certain warmth. And there’s no better way to set aside the slings and…
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