Ten movies to stream in the 10 days until Christmas
What with the bushfire smoke, heat and crowded shopping centres, there’s no time like the present to hunker down inside for a festive movie binge.
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What with the bushfire smoke, heat, and crowded shopping centres, there’s no time like the present to hunker down inside and indulge in a festive movie binge.
We’ve picked one a day to take you right up to Christmas Eve:
LET IT SNOW
Labelled by one reviewer as Love Actually for teens, Let It Snow is a young adult Christmas movie starring Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Kiernan Shipka, Aussie Liv Hewson and actor/singer Shameik Moore that follows young relationships through the holiday season.
Watch it on: Netflix
NOELLE
Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader might not be the obvious choice for a Christmas fantasy, but here they are as Santa’s son and daughter — Noelle and Nick Kringle. The family patriarch has sadly died and responsibility for keeping Christmas alive falls to Nick, but he’s got cold feet and makes a run for it. Noelle must save the day.
Watch it on: Disney+
A CHRISTMAS PRINCE: THE ROYAL BABY
At this rate Rose McIver and Ben Lamb will be in a job until we finally reach A Christmas Prince: The Royal Funeral in 2075. The Royal Baby follows on from the 2017 original and last year’s The Royal Wedding. Wonder if Meghan and Harry will be watching?
Watch it on: Netflix
THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Vanessa Hudgens is becoming quite the Christmas regular. Last year it was The Princess Switch and now she’s back in a story about a knight who time travels right into her life as the festive season kicks off.
Watch it on: Netflix
WINTER LOVE STORY
Can you ever go wrong with the girl-forcibly-teamed-up-with-boy-eventually-romance-blossoms-the-end story? That’s what this is and the boy and girl are authors on a book tour at Christmas. Star Jen Lilley (Days Of Our Loves) is a Christmas movie regular with those classics Mingle All The Way (2018) and The Spirit Of Christmas (2015) also in her Santa sack.
Watch it on: Foxtel
NO SLEEP TIL CHRISTMAS
Not your usual Christmas movie. Two strangers who suffer from insomnia find an unlikely cure — with one big twist. Interesting concept. Silly movie.
Watch it on: Foxtel
KLAUS
One of the better quality festive offerings being dished up this Christmas, this animated flick follows the postal academy’s worst student when he is exiled to the tiny town of Smeerensburg somewhere deep in the Arctic circle. There Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) finds a community riven by feuds and a mysterious carpenter (JK Simmons) who makes beautiful toys no child ever plays with. A very watchable twist on the Santa Claus origin story and one the whole family can enjoy — especially those with Frozen fans among their number.
Watch it on: Netflix
HOLIDAY IN THE WILD
Come for the stars but stay for the elephants. Sex And The City favourite Kristin Davis teams up with a very grizzled Rob Lowe to save the residents of an African elephant refuge. She’s a Manhattan housewife whose husband announces their marriage is over exactly one minute after their son leaves for college. Luckily for Kate, she has just organised their second honeymoon (yep, she really didn’t see it coming!) and is able to hope on a plane and wing it to Africa. Ridiculous script, implausible story but the orphaned elephants will keep you watching right to the festive finale.
Watch it on: Netflix
HOLIDAY RUSH
If it wasn’t a Christmas movie, this would be a terrible film, but as it ticks absolutely every box in the Christmas movie checklist, it’s a winner. Top radio host loses job, rich kids freak out, finally falls for the girl who’s been right in front of his eyes, everyone learns what family is. Credits.
Watch it on: Netflix
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
OK, so you can’t actually binge this straight away as it screens first over three nights — December 23, 24 and 25 — but this lavish new production of Charles Dicken’s classic stars our very own Guy Pearce alongisde Andy Serkis and promises a “haunting, hallucinatory and spine-tingling immersion on Scrooge’s dark night of the soul”.
Watch it on: Foxtel’s Fox Showcase
Originally published as Ten movies to stream in the 10 days until Christmas