Now, you tell me good readers is there any better feeling than to cuddle up on the sofa with a loved one It’s Not Gay If Its Tsa Shirt, with, for me a Baileys Coffee, a hot drink, with the weather outside being suitably seasonal and watching a classic Christmas film ? For some this Classic can be in the form of Die Hard, others It’s a Wonderful life, whereas others Christmas isn’t Christmas until they’ve watched Elf. So we sat down as a team at CMTM and came up with our definitive Advent Calendar of Christmas Crackers of movies to see you through to the big day. Seat back, relax and enjoy. Arthur Christmas – Released in time for Christmas 2011, this animated joy came from a deal with Aardman Animations, and Sony Pictures and had a soundtrack including a track from Justin Bieber, but don’t let that put you off. A star studded cast supplied the voices including James McAvoy, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent. If you haven’t seen it, get it on the list ! Home Alone – Can only be described as a modern Christmas Classic. Obviously raising all sorts of child care and safe guarding issues but hey this was back in 1990, by the great Chris Columbus. This film as we said raised all kinda questions including what did Mr McAllister do for a living to afford THAT house, plus pay for his entire extended family to spend the holidays together is Paris, no less. Die Hard – Yippy Ki yay blip, blip ! Christmas isn’t Christmas unless this highly contentious, is it a Christmas film or not film has been seen. Back in 1989, we first met detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) and the events that unfold at the Nakatomi tower at the hands of international terrorists Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman RIP). The Grinch – Have to say the character of the Grinch from the mind of Dr Seuss, is, for me, equally as scary as Freddie Krueger, Michael Myers or Charlie Mason. In recent years, like a number of Christmas classics, have had different reimagining of the story of “The Grinch who stole Christmas”. There is something in the character of the Grinch that people love which we only have to look at the popularity of Primark’s collaboration this season. Who is your Grinch, Jim Carey, Walter Matthau Benedict Cumberbatch or even Boris Karloff ? The nightmare before Christmas – Ahhhh Tim Burton’s incredible gothic fairytale from 1993. Like he normally does, he is a disruptor in every sense of the word, this time with animation. Telling the story of Jack Skellington, King of Halloweentown and his unique love of Christmas and bringing his unique interpretation of Christmas to Halloweentown. The Holiday – This Film directed by Penny Marshall in , always raises lots of questions including no way does she live in a house/cottage like that and I go gonna do that next Christmas ! Once again, a star studded cast of, kinda, interlinked characters sick of being done wrong and definitely not, but kinda yeah, looking for love. Home Alone 2 – Now if the McAllisters hadn’t learnt their lesson back in 1990 and took the adventurous decision to try another Christmas away, AGAIN, with all the family, a mere 2 years later, the unthinkable happened again. This time Kevin winds up in the Big Apple and has to fend off the newly released from Prison, Wet Bandits. Elf – The story of Buddy the Elf, uniquely played by the brilliant Will Ferrell and director Ed by Jon Favreau (The Mandalorian, Iron Man) and after being raised by elves in the North Pole and struggling with those ideas of not quite fitting in embarks on the quest to find his human family, in the shape of his father played by James Caan.

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