Surprisingly hard to find on streaming platforms, this culture-clash romcom has all the ingredients for the perfect pre-Christmas watch: big energy, loads of gratuitous food porn (you’ll be adding Singapore’s Newton Food Centre to your travel list) and some big laughs, most courtesy of the always lulz-y Awkwafina. 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.
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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’.
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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. 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.
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