Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara

Merv: A movie about a dog should be a slam dunk for Christmas. Right?

A couple split up and negotiate shared custody of their dog - but when he gets depressed, they reunite for Christmas to cheer him up. It's a rock-solid premise for some l

Jingle Bell Heist: It's definitely better than its title, but how much better?

Christmas is a time of miracles, and also robberies, according to Netflix's new rom-com crime caper, wherein two plucky but dodgy young people played by Olivia Holt and C

Christmas, Again: Will this indie film become a mumblecore seasonal classic?

It's not all glitzy romances and action movies at Christmas; spare a thought for the microbudget indie movies that are also set at this time of year. Take, for example, 2

The Family Plan 2: Mark Wahlberg leads an international criminal family Christmas - or something

What's more important: Christmas or geography? Can sexy Russian spies also be cat ladies? And is Marky Mark secretly French? All these and more questions will be answered

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie: Are we broken or is this actually funny?

Cynical brand extension or charming Christmas adventure? Why not both! A Very Jonas Christmas Movie features pop siblings the Jonas Brothers on an epic quest to get home

Goodbye June: Life, death and Nativity plays with Andrea Riseborough and Timothy Spall

Kate Winslet's directorial debut is not your typical Christmas movie. It's set mostly in a hospital, as a family gather around their dying matriarch (Helen Mirren), and f

Silent Night Deadly Night: We talk to the director of this season's sweetest serial killer slasher

This year has been relatively light on Christmas horror, but fear not. There's plenty of claret on offer in the remake of 1984's slasher Silent Night Deadly Night from di

Pillion, with director Harry Lighton: the unlikely love story with a Christmas twist

It's not often here at Bah Humbug that we can lay claim to a genuinely great, not-graded-on-a-curve film set over the Christmas season, but say hello to Harry Lighton's P

Oh. What. Fun. - Michelle Pfeiffer, Christmas, an all-star cast. It *must* be fun, right?

The last time Michelle Pfeiffer made a Christmas movie, the result was the great Batman Returns. Now she's back in Oh. What. Fun., starring with the likes of Felicity Jon

Tinsel Town: or, some Brits attempt to explain panto to the rest of the world

Today's episode of Bah Humbug, the Christmas movies podcast, focuses on Tinsel Town, the new Sky film wherein a spoiled Hollywood star reluctantly agrees to do theatre in

A Merry Little Ex-Mas and Champagne Problems: Are Netflix Films...Good Now?

Are Netflix raising their game on Christmas movies? Or just softening us up for My Secret Santa? Your host, Helen O'Hara, assesses the contenders with guest Olly Richards

Christmas Karma: Reinventing redemption, Dickens And Muppets

Gurinder Chadha's new film, Christmas Karma, reimagines Charles Dickens' classic Christmas story with The Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar in the lead. How does it stack up

Our Little Secret

Another year, another Lindsay Lohan Christmas movie - and this time she hasn't even lost her memory. In Our Little Secret, she's visiting her boyfriend's family, when she

Carry On

With people flying home for the holidays, now would be a really terrible time for ne'er-do-wells to smuggle a mysterious and dangerous package onto a plane by threatening

Dear Santa

It's a movie based on the old joke, about a dyslexic who sold his soul to Santa. This time, however, it's a kid (Robert Timothy Smith) who writes his letter to Santa with

Christmas Eve In Miller's Point

An unconventional and fresh-feeling Christmas movie, Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve In Miller's Point recreates a family get-together in a small town in the early '00s wi

That Christmas

This British Christmas animation is based on a series of books by Richard "Love Actually" Curtis, so you know it's going to be quirky and Christmassy and British, and sta

Hot Frosty And The Merry Gentlemen

Think Christmas, think perfect chiselled abs. At least, that appears to be the message from Netflix's Hot Frosty and The Merry Gentlemen. The former sees Schitt's Creek'

Red One

It's the biggest Christmas film in years, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Chris Evans leading a starry cast and a massive budget. But is Red One actually any good? Thi

The Holdover

It's not often that you see a Christmas film with Oscar buzz, nor one that the studio for some reason decide to release in the second half of January. Yet here we are, wi