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12 Things totalfilm.com Would Get You For Christmas

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11 Movie Games We Want To Play This Christmas

Nan, this is how you play The Running Man...

10 Great Christmas Movies You've Never Seen

A splash of seasonal goodwill, please, for these festive non-classics...

The 9 Meanest Christmas Movie Moments

Hosted by Michael Caine's Ebeneezer Scrooge...

8 Weird Life Lessons We Learnt From Christmas Movies

Not the original messages, maybe. But it's what they taught us.

7 Summer Blockbusters Reshot As Christmas Movies

What if 2008's event movies had been released at Christmas? Eh? Eh?

6 Actors Who Would Make Good Bad Santas

Ho, ho, woah! Pleasantly dodgy present-hawkers...

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5 Movie Bookmarks For Your New Laptop

Before you eat that Chocolate Orange, add these...

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