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Festive feature entertainment for in-between snacking and snoozing!

Film: The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland (Prime Video and Hulu from 15th November)

The Queen of Hearts has outlawed Christmas. As a child, the white rabbit missed her gift. Years later, Father Christmas receives the lost letter and voyages to Wonderland. With the help of curious young Alice, can Christmas be saved?

The animated film, based on the book by Carys Bexington, takes the stories of Alice in Wonderland and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ and squishes them together to show what happens when jolly ol' Santa Claus (voiced by Gerard Butler) gets a letter from the grumpy Queen of Hearts (voiced by Emilia Clarke).

Film: Dear Santa (Paramount+ from 25th November)

A festive family Christmas comedy starring Jack Black. The holly jolly film follows young Liam Turner (Robert Timothy Smith), who still believes in Santa. To prove to all of his disbelieving friends that Santa is real, he writes a letter to the big guy inviting him to show himself. The only problem? Liam isn't a very strong speller and addresses the letter to Satan (Jack Black) instead. Satan, who never gets letters from kids, is flattered and goes to meet Liam. Hijinks, chaos, and hilarity ensue. 

Film: Nutcrackers (Hulu from 29th November)

A purely entertaining and heartwarming family holiday movie. Ben Stiller stars in this family holiday movie about a man who must leave his stable life in Chicago to take care of his late sister's four children while they wait to be put in a foster home. Stiller is a single Chicago businessman when tragedy hits and his sister and her husband die, leaving their four kids orphaned. Uncle Mike is now in charge and drives his yellow Porsche out to this mud-filled farm to figure out what to do with the kids. Predictably, this city man is a fish out of water on this farm, stepping in chicken muck, walking into a disastrous kitchen with dirty dishes piled everywhere, opening a toilet lid to discover a King Cobra staring at him! It is a situation Uncle Mike couldn’t have imagined, and now he has to deal with it. Before long, he decides to find a foster home, one all four could be in together, but those “auditions” do not go well to say the least, particularly for the town’s richest man, an empty nester who with his wife might be ripe to take in the boys, that is until a nightmare visit to a Christmas party at his mansion goes terribly wrong.