Listen, it’s only seven weeks TODAY until Christmas 2022, and you’re lucky I’m not telling you about Christmas 2023 (435 days, folks!). It’s never too soon, is what I’m saying. Catfish Christmas — a title I suspect was developed before the actual story, which is fine as I love alliteration as much as I love… The Catfish Christmas trailer is here (what do you mean, “too soon”) Read More
Misery loves company so come and join me in BAR HUMBUG
I actually LOVE Christmas, or I would if it ever lived up to expectations. Everyone else seems to be having such a great time, with their well-behaved children who simply want a hand-carved wooden toy and a five shilling book token in their stocking. Unlike my ungrateful wretches, the youngest of whom told a charity… Misery loves company so come and join me in BAR HUMBUG Read More
Pop Up Screens Are Back for 2018 With Christmas Movies & SNOW!
Pop up cinema experts Pop Up Screens are back this winter with Cinema In The Snow – a terrific selection of Christmas and wintry-themed movies running from 13-23 December 2018 at East London’s Hackney Showroom. As with last year, they’re turning the location into a Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe winter wonderland, complete with… Pop Up Screens Are Back for 2018 With Christmas Movies & SNOW! Read More
A Christmas Horror Story 4 stars
Bailey Downs is one of those towns you really, really want to keep away from. Bailey Downs had two horrific murders exactly one year ago in the high school basement. But worse than that, their nighttime DJ on their local radio station is William Shatner. Talk about bad chi in Bailey Downs. Like Albert Square… A Christmas Horror Story Read More
The Night Before 3.5 stars
All these ghosts appearing, from Christmases Past, Present and Future. The Night Before is a New York version of A Christmas Carol but with what Chris describes as “pseudo racist fake-ass acrylic sweaters”, trying to take off his obligatory Christmas jumper when an annual Christmas Eve night out starts disintegrating into recrimination and desperation. It’s… The Night Before Read More