Twelve Films At Christmas: 2 & 3

You can confuse yourself in knowing ridicule of Dick Van Dyke's ludicrous mockney but to do so is to miss the point about Mary Poppins, which is that it is a genuinely good film. The songs are terrific - I enjoy best of all Feed the Birds - and the pre (very pre) CGI effects are still arresting. It must I'm sure be on over Christmas (we noticed it on Sky Disney) so treat yourself to two hours of innocent fun. Perhaps with a glass of something pleasant and a mince pie. 8/10.

Now one we hadn't seen before but picked up from the same channel. Movies chronicling efforts to 'save Christmas' are opportunistically thick on the ground and Get Santa duly obseves the necessities of the generic cliches, but it has enough to mark it from competitors. It is stolidly British and has Jim Broadbent (whom we like) as an imprisoned Santa. It made me smile. 6.5/10.