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Christmas Video Vault – The Nativity Story

Nativity

Mary, a teenage girl growing up in Rome-occupied Nazareth, is betrothed to Joseph, a modest but kind carpenter. An angel tells her she will bear a child from God and after negotiating the anger and confusion of her family and Joseph at how this could be, she then finds that she, Joseph and the boy [...]




Christmas Video Vault: Jingle All The Way

Jingle All the Way

Ah, being a child in the nineties: GameBoys, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, early Pixar films, Batman: The Animated Series and Pokemon trading cards. But when it comes to Christmas films, one of my favorites as a youngster was Jingle All the Way, which was not only one of my first Christmas films at the cinema, [...]




Christmas Video Vault – Elf

elf

From the minute you see Will Ferrell’s name attached to this film, you know it’s not simply going to be snowflakes and snowmen, happy faces and neatly wrapped presents under the Christmas tree. Yes, all of that features, but Jon Favreau’s Elf is no conventional Christmas story. Setting the scene, Papa Elf recounts the story [...]




Christmas Video Vault – How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

the grinch christmas video vault

Before there was Jack Skellington preceding Christmas with nightmares, Billy Bob Thornton giving Santa Claus a bad name, or rare exports maiming innocent reindeer, it was the Grinch who first turned the tables on the festive season, daring to be indifferent (after Scrooge, of course). The first of Dr. Seuss’ acclaimed children’s stories to be adapted to feature [...]




Christmas Video Vault – Gremlins

Gremlins

‘Tis the season to wreck havoc. Joe Dante’s 1984 tale of that loveable and unique Christmas gift which turns out to be more trouble than he’s worth is now a firm festive favourite, and similar to Die Hard, it has earned a loving place on that list whilst using the holidays ostensibly as a hook [...]




Christmas Video Vault: The Nightmare Before Christmas

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As the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington spends his entire year planning for the next Halloween.  As a matter of fact, his entire town of Halloweentown does the same thing.  His latest stint as king has Jack questioning his place in life and after the events of Halloween are over, a somber Jack heads out for [...]




Christmas Video Vault – Home Alone 2

Home Alone 2

After leaving their son Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) behind the previous Christmas, the McCallister family are determined to make sure that he comes on holiday with them this time. They all make it to the airport, but being in a hurry, they are split up and Kevin follows a different man with a very similar coat [...]




Christmas Video Vault – Home Alone

Home Alone

Due to a mix-up caused by his banishment to the loft and the family oversleeping on the morning of their departure on holiday, Kevin McCallister is left alone at home while the rest of his family jet off to Paris. A pair of burglars, the self-styled “Wet Bandits” are working their way through the neighbourhood [...]




Christmas Video Vault – Miracle On 34th Street (1994)

miracle on 34th street

Kris Kringle (Richard Attenborough) is a department store Santa with a difference – he’s the real thing. Due to some ill-tempered rivalry between competing stores and some deliberate provocation, he winds up in court on trumped-up assault charges, leading to a consideration by the judge as to whether he really is Father Christmas or not. [...]




Christmas Video Vault: Christmas with the Kranks

Christmas with the Kranks

Christmas is many things to many people; a time of happiness, a time of reflection, a time to be grateful for what you have. It is a time for a veritable barrage of films which literally cut-and-paste the same plot elements every. single. year. Now, I have absolutely no problem with Christmas, and I like [...]




Christmas Video Vault – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Christmas Vacation

Having driven across the US to visit a closed theme park and tussled with continental Europe for Vacation and European Vacation, the Griswold family decide to stay home for Christmas. Clark (Chevy Chase) wants everything to be just so – the tree, the turkey, the lights – but between his uptight neighbours, his eccentric extended [...]