Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara
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Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara
If you have tinsel on the brain and mulled wine in your blood, this is the podcast for you. We’re living in a golden age of delightfully cheesy Christmas movies, and on Bah Humbug we examine the biggest new offerings this season, as well as looking back at classic seasonal favourites. Think Kurt Rus...
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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-soli...
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...
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....
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 questi...
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 epi...
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 (...
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...
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...
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 l...
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 agr...
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...
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....
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 boyfrien...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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 ac...
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....
Pop Culture: with Helen O’Hara
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Welcome to Pop Culture, the podcast that puts soft drinks at the top of the menu. Helen O'Hara and Kat Brown are arts journali...
There's Something In The Barn
Folklore: not just a Taylor Swift album. In this Norway-set horror / comedy, an enraged barn elf just ruins a family Christmas in revenge for being fe...
Silent Night
John Woo is back, and he's brought a Christmas movie: now that's the kind of present we like to see under the tree. Or is it? To discuss this new Chri...
Hannah Waddingham
Apple TV's big Christmas extravaganza this year is a showcase for the multi talented Hannah Waddingham, the star of Ted Lasso who is also a classicall...
Wonka
Is it a Christmas film? Technically maybe not. But then again, yes, utterly. Paul King's follow-up to Paddington 2 is a musical, an ode to the power o...
Merry Little Batman
It's Christmas Eve at Wayne Manor, and little Damian Wayne is home alone. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Well, this animated caper suggests quite a lot might ha...
Genie
Bad news: you've lost your job and your wife and daughter have left you. Good news: you just rubbed a random antique and a genie popped out. That's th...
Candy Cane Lane
You know the one about the dyslexic who sold his soul to Satan? Well, imagine that but it's a family comedy starring Eddie Murphy and instead of Satan...
Your Christmas or Mine 2
How can the same s**t happen to the same couple twice, as John McClane might ask? Well, it's a bigger and weirder mix-up of Christmas plans in this Br...
Santa Claus The Movie
It was a famous flop, but the big-budget magic of Santa Claus: The Movie - just re-released in cinemas in a new 4K format - still has a lot to offer....
It’s a Wonderful Knife
It's a spectacular pun, based on the best Christmas Film Of All Time (TM), but now with added slasher action. This Christmas horror isn't for the fain...
20 Years of Tokyo Godfathers, Love Actually, Elf, and Bad Santa
It's 20 years since perhaps the best year for Christmas movies, the 2003 binge that gave us Love Actually, Elf and Bad Santa. But it also gave us one...
Spirited AND Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
It wouldn't be Christmas without some variation on A Christmas Carol attacking our screens, and this year offers two new takes on Charles Dickens' cla...
BONUS EPISODE: Emily Zarka / Krampus
Another special bonus episode today, this time focusing on Christmas monsters. Dr Emily Zarka has made an academic study of things that go bump in the...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Christmas Special
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has delivered another Christmas-themed treat, and Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb joins us to discuss it. This time it's a...
The Bishop's Wife 75th
One of the classics turns a sprightly 75 this year, so film historian Pamela Hutchinson and The Independent's film critic Clarisse Loughrey took the t...
The Noel Diary
Brace yourself: The Noel Diary is a Netflix Christmas romance that has some actual dramatic substance! Film critic Amon Warmann and editor Amanda Keat...
Christmas Bloody Christmas
Christmas is not just a time for peace and joy; it also makes a great setting for mayhem. The Evolution Of Horror's Michael Muncer comes by to talk ab...
A Christmas Story Christmas
It's strange that one of America's favourite holiday films, A Christmas Story, is barely a blip on the radar in the UK, but with new sequel A Christma...
The Santa Clauses
Tim Allen returns in the role that defined Santa for a generation - this time on the small screen - and film critics Tom Beasley and Charlotte Harriso...