There is nothing better than sitting down in front of the telly with a big tin of chocolates for a bit of indulgent laziness at Christmas time. It’s too early to tell what will be on the T.V, but below we have picked out 13 top films guaranteed to get you in the Christmassy mood. There were lots of others that we thought of but we didn’t have the room…Like Santa Clause played by Tim Allen (the cynical toy maker), Disney’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jingle All The Way (comedy), older classics like Meet Me In St Louis, White Christmas and Christmas Holiday as well as Millions – where an enormous bag of money falls from the sky (just what we could all do with at this expensive time of year! Anyway no doubt your family will have its own favourite seasonal movies. Everyone at Psychic Sight wishes you a Very Merry Christmas and we will see you in the New Year – hope it is happy, healthy and prosperous for you all.
It’s a Wonderful Life – George has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls. Despite his yearning to see the world, George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family and the local community. However, when a huge amount of money goes missing from the savings and loans company he panics and prepares to commit suicide. However, he is shown the error of this idea by Clarence, an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings.
The Snowman – Based on Raymond Briggs’ classic children’s book, the tale of a solitary little boy whose snowman comes to life in the night and takes him on a series of adventures which culminate in a meeting with Father Christmas.
Miracle on 34th Street – The original 1947 version of this story follows the misadventures of Kris Kringle as he gets a job playing Santa Claus at Macy’s department store in New York City. Natalie Wood is the little girl who tells him she doesn’t believe in Santa, and Maureen O’Hara and John Payne are the couple who help Kris through a trial in which he must prove he’s the jolly fellow from the North Pole.
Gremlins – When Billy Peltzer is given the cute and friendly little Mogwai, Gizmo for Christmas, he is told never to expose it to bright light, get it wet or ever feed it after midnight. But one night when a glass of water is accidentally spilled over little Gizmo, Billy soon finds out why he was told to follow this advice.
Elf – Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a human being who has spent his whole life believing himself to be an elf. But when his ungainly size starts to become a liability, Santa suggests that Buddy head to New York City to find his biological father. Needless to say, the unlikely spectacle of a 6’5′ man dressed from head to foot in bright green stands out a mile and Buddy finds himself in all sorts of scrapes.
The Bishops Wife – A Christmas fantasy tale, Angel Dudley (Cary Grant) comes to Earth to help out a bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) who is involved in a desperate fundraising appeal to build a cathedral. However, his financial concerns have led him to become cut off from his wife and parishioners, a state of affairs the suave angel intends to put straight.
About A Boy – The “coming together” of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence.
Scrooge – Christmas just would not be the same without Alastair Sim giving the performance of a lifetime as Scrooge in this truly wonderful British adaptation of Charles Dickens immortal A Christmas Carol.
Home Alone 1 & 2 – To lose your child once is acceptable, but twice is just plain careless – even if the child is a precocious brat. Still, that’s what happens in this double bill of popular slapstick comedies. ‘Home Alone’ features young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), finding that his family have gone on holiday without him and he is left alone in the house. To make matters worse, some local crooks have their beady eyes on the seemingly empty property.
The Polar Express – Late on Christmas Eve night, a boy (Daryl Sabara) lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pyjama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.
The Family Man – Late one Christmas Eve, investment banker Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is on his way home when he helps resolve a potentially violent incident in his local food store. His kindness is repaid on Christmas Day, when he wakes up not in his bachelor pad, but in a New Jersey family home where he is the father of two kids and the husband of his college sweetheart Kate. Jack and Kate separated thirteen years ago, when he left her to pursue his banking career, and he is now being given a 24-hr glimpse of how his life would have turned out if he had married her instead.
The Grinch – The Grinch (Jim Carrey) is a grouchy green monster who lives high up on a mountain overlooking the town of Whoville. The Grinch hates happiness, hates merriment, and most of all, hates Christmas. So one year he draws up plans to steal all the decorations and all the presents from the poor, unsuspecting citizens below. Does this mean the Whos won’t be celebrating this year? Not if little Cindy Lou has anything to do with it.
Love Actually – With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the London Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Richard Curtis guides a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who’s smitten with his caterer (Martine McCutcheon); a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who’s desperately attracted to a colleague plus a new bride (Keira Knightley) mistaking the distance of her husband’s best friend for something it’s not… Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies.
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