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I rewatched Love Hard a few years after first seeing it, largely because a suspicious number of people insisted it was something I wouldn’t hate. In Christmas-film terms, I think we’ve established that this is a glowing recommendation. Natalie, our protagonist, is young, hot, child-free, and looking for love on an app. She’s having a rough time of it; Losers.

I have survived A Very British Christmas, a film which promises festive British charm and instead delivers (exactly) ninety of plaid, mediocrity, and subtitles that appear to have been generated by a man in a hurry with a poor grasp of English. Call this a bonus review, if you will. I promised that tomorrow’s scheduled review would be it, and

Although it has bitten me before, I let my boyfriend take the wheel again. He could choose any Christmas film to watch, and he chose… A Christmas Karen. A Christmas Karen is a low budget take on A Christmas Carol, but starring a Karen. Much like The Knight Before Christmas, it’s possible someone came up with the name first and

Bored to tears of formulaic, beige Straight-to-Netflix Christmas romcoms, I thought I’d see what else there was on offer for my Christmas film review marathon. One film that was repeatedly recommended was action movie ‘Red One‘, staring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. Let’s be clear up front: We cannot compare Red One to a Hallmark Christmas movie. Such films operate on

After yesterday’s dabble with horror, we’re back to the Netflix Christmas romcom reviews I’m afraid! I have now watched Meet Me Next Christmas from start to finish, fuelled primarily by wine. I am now ready to share my opinion. The premise is simple and a little weird. Layla, played by early noughties R&B singer Christina Milian, is at the airport

A lot of you told me Violent Night was a must-watch Christmas film. Historically, listening to your recommendations has not gone well for me (see previous reviews here), so I ignored you for as long as possible. Turns out this was an error on my part, because this was exactly what I needed after two weeks of beige pap. Violent

I am convinced that The Knight Before Christmas is a film that was created in reverse. Someone in a Netflix meeting said ‘How about The Knight Before Christmas?!’ and everyone nodded like it was a great idea because these are the same people who thought it was worth making I Believe In Santa, and then a script was assembled around

Falling for Christmas was Netflix’s 2022 festive offering (before LiLo went heavy on the Botox) built around a single, unhinged premise: what if a very rich woman fell off a mountain, bumped her head, forgot who she was, and became nice. If the NHS could replicate this, we could sort half the country out by February. We begin with Lindsay