{"id":196040,"date":"2025-12-17T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:53:12","slug":"christmas-film-guide-from-scrooges-to-santas-saints-to-elves-and-all-the-die-hards-our-critics-have-snowploughed-through-the-streamers-to-plot-their-festive-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196040\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas film guide: From Scrooges to Santas, saints to elves, and all the Die Hards, our critics have snowploughed through the streamers to plot their festive favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nOur guide to what the platforms have to offer &#8211; with lots of old-school classics, cheesy romcoms and childish delights to devour\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From \u2018Home Alone\u2019 (top left) to \u2018Elf\u2019 (above) and \u2018It\u2019s A Wonderful Life\u2019 (top right), Christmas films can bring fun, laughter and an emotional punch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9281293d-90d8-4c7d-ae7c-42b8a058b6a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From \u2018Home Alone\u2019 (top left) to \u2018Elf\u2019 (above) and \u2018It\u2019s A Wonderful Life\u2019 (top right), Christmas films can bring fun, laughter and an emotional punch<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wasser and Hilary White<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Curling up on the couch with a Christmas movie is something to treasure no matter what age you are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whether it\u2019s an animated escapade, a dash of festive romance or a holiday tear-jerker you\u2019re after, there\u2019s plenty to choose from on the streaming platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our guide to what the platforms have to offer &#8211; with lots of old-school classics, cheesy romcoms and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,3281,3288,9618,93,61,60,1868,6992],"class_list":["post-196040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-apple-tv","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-netflix","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}