Screen Idle’s Christmas film guide

Christmas Films

It’s either watch this lot or talk to your family.

Christmas Eve

Home Alone – Channel 4 17.30

Small boy tortures idiot burglars for your entertainment, you sickos.

Frozen – BBC1 15.00

No, *you* let it go.

A Christmas Carol – Channel 4 13.10

Ghosts defraud businessman by convincing him his future will be awful.

Unforgiven – ITV4 22.00

Grumpy cowboy kills everyone and then feels sad about it.

White Christmas – More4 17.45

Bing Crosby saves his friends hotel by singing a song, the name of which escapes me.

Christmas Day

Back to the Future – Channel 4 14.35

Marty travels back to 1955 to try and find a way back to 1985.

The Sting – ITV4 13.55

The adventures of a drowsy bee.

Deadpool – Film4 21.00

The adventures of superhero whose chief power appears to be the ability to be irritating.

Spartacus – ITV4 16.10

No, I’m on ITV4 at 16.10

Midnight Run – Film4 23.10

Grumpy bounty hunter has heart touched by grumpy white-collar criminal in greatest film ever. Watch this!

Twins – 5* 12.35

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins with hilarious consequences that are not included in this film.

Boxing Day

The Wolf of Wall Street – Channel 4 23.05

Too much sniffing cocaine off of bums, not enough wolves.

Ratatouille – Channel 4 17.00

Rat opens restaurant. Based on the story of the 2001 Masterchef winner

Beethoven – Channel 5 21.35

Warm-hearted tale of an ordinary family who adopt an eighteenth century composer

 

 

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