The Christmas Eve Film Fest

Every year on Christmas Eve, Jane and I watch our favourite festive films and today will be no different.


We kick things off with Trading Places, which holds up against the test of time, except for the fact that casual racism was clearly a lot more acceptable back in the eighties.


This is followed by Home Alone, which is probably only entertaining to adults if you were a kid when it came out. I was so I'm set. Plus there's nothing more Christmassy than a grown man being shot in the groin with an air gun.


Third up is Die Hard, which IS a Christmas movie and a brilliant one at that. Hands down my favourite ever action movie, by the time "Let it Snow" starts playing you can't help but feel in the Christmas spirit, especially whilst surrounded by dead terrorists.


Finally we have Scrooged, with the excellent Bill Murray tackling on of my favourite stories (A Christmas Carol) in what has to be my favourite adaptation. Karen Allen's smile reminds me of the Joker, which is both fun and terrifying at the same time (much like the Joker himself I suppose).


So that's our day...what are you doing? 

I did warn you

So in my excitement for Christmas, which is getting increasingly closer, I've begun a gauntlet of Christmas films.

I tend to do it every year, and it usually contains (but is not limited to) Elf, Gremlins, Christmas with the Kranks, a version of A Christmas Carol and if Jane gets her way, Santa Claus: The Movie.

The whole thing culminates on Christmas Eve with Trading Places, Home Alone, Die Hard and Scrooged; with the grand finale being my all time favourite film It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day.

Good times.