To help that Christmas lunch go down, here’s a sprinkling of Christmas films selected by the incomparable Mark Steyn in 2004. To see more of his writing for The Spectator click here. Otherwise, just read on…
Christmas Classics, Mark Steyn, The Spectator, 18 December 2004
’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house/ Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
At which point, Sylvester the cat looks up from his long fruitless vigil outside the mouse hole in the baseboard and sighs with feeling to the narrator, ‘You’re not jutht whithlin’ Dickthie, brother.’
I saw Gift Wrapped after four hours of grim slogging through a couple of this year’s charmless Christmas movies. The western and the musical may be dead, but the charmless Xmas movie is now a genre all of its own and doing gangbusters.
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