Here at Casa Piggy the snow lies all around, deep and crisp and even, disturbed only by the trail of paw prints from the local fox. Thus I find myself starting the usual cinematic Christmas thread a few days early. But don't worry, we haven't put the decorations up yet. Anything before December is terribly infra dig.
Christmas films. They have been showing the crappy schmaltzy ones for the best part of a month now. However I am pleased to report a rather more elevated addition to the Christmas canon.
A Boy Called Christmas is a Sky/Netflix co-production, thus part of the conspiracy to take over the world. It has a cinematic release but is available on Sky at the same time. Do you know what - it's rather good. A cast of very good British thesps including the compulsory Maggie Smith. A plot that completely ignores the religious side of Christmas (but hey ho) and I think I even detected an anti-Brexit tinge (but hey ho). The effects are very good and there's a sassy talking mouse, voiced by Stephen Merchant. Pleasingly in amongst the saccharine (it is Christmas after all) there is some jeopardy and a bit of unleavened tragedy. A good start to this year's festive dozen. 69/100.
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