Christmas Mix [DVD] [2015] [Region 1] [NTSC]

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Did you know? For the role of B.Z., the producers originally offered the part to Harrison Ford who turned them down. They made offers to Dustin Hoffman, Burt Reynolds and Johnny Carson - all of whom, for one reason or another, also turned the part down, before it was offered to John Lithgow who made the role his own. It's a love story, it's a comedy, it's so much more than that, I found it rather an enchanting watch, I got into it straight away, and found the characters so rich.

Walter is at first skeptical that Buddy is his son, but after a paternity test proves positive he takes him home to meet his stepmother (Steenburgen) and half-brother Michael, who eventually warm to him. Meanwhile, Buddy falls in love with Jovie (Deschanel), a co-worker at the Gimbles department store.I can relate, having commuted on a train for seven years of my life, and I truly get this story, maybe writer Alastair Galbraith used to do the daily commute.

Three new Muppets take on the parts of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to help Scrooge remember the magic of Christmas, soften his heart and scare him about what might happen if he refuses to change. Along the way there are familiar Muppet characters playing various characters.

There’s even more to watch.

When it comes to Christmas films, there is no shortage of love and romance – but it’s all overwhelmingly straight. Even Love Actually filmed a queer storyline among its 524 interweaving plots, before deciding it should be cut from the film, leaving that “Colin goes to America” abomination intact. And so Todd Haynes’s Carol, a beautifully shot adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel in which department store worker Therese (Rooney Mara) falls in love with a mysterious older woman (Cate Blanchett) in the run up to Christmas, is a welcome break from heteronorm-nativity. Did you know? This is the third instalment in the National Lampoon Vacation series and was developed from a short story by John Hughes called "Christmas ‘59", which was published in the December 1980 edition of the National Lampoon magazine. Things go from bad to worse when Clark’s boss, Frank Shirley, withholds his yearly bonus. The farce snowballs when cousin Eddie kidnaps Frank and a SWAT team turns up to hold everyone at gunpoint. Can Clark still give the family a good, old fashioned Christmas despite these odds? What a cast list, what an astonishing wealth of British talent here, so many favourites, Timothy Spall, Kaya (glorious) Scodelario, Joanna Scanlan, Ben Miller and many more. Here’s the thing, though: sure, most Christmas movies are fluffy exercises in nostalgia, imparting messages about the importance of showing goodwill toward your fellow man, wrapped up with a tinge of innocent consumerism… but not all of them. As you’ll see on our list of the 50 all-time greatest yuletide classics, some subvert the tropes of the season and cast a critical eye at the more commercial aspects of the holiday. Others feature a lot of swearing, explosions and even a few bloody slayings. Whatever you’re looking for to get in the mood for this next month of merriment and Mariah Carey, you’ll find it under our proverbial tree.