This Is Christmas

An interesting thing.

On the one hand 'This is Christmas' is ultra, military grade, extra mature cheddar cheese and I've rarely been as uncomfortable watching a scene as I was during the initial speech on the train by Alfred Enoch's Adam - that sorta stuff, fake positivity/togetherness, is just something that makes me cringe, I can't help it.

However, in fairness, the film actually manages to play it off well. I was fearing the worst at that aforementioned moment, though as the scenes go by the characters actually do feel like they are getting to know each other in a relatively believable way - therefore making the earlier cringe actually befitting, given it would initially be awkward.

The cast help the film come to life in that wa...

I love this movie. I joined this platform just because I saw there weren't any reviews for this and a desire to add more pictures from it.

I wrote a review late november 2024 that I'll paste in below

I just love this movie. I teared up at like 4 different places. Granted the first one was out of sheer joy and disbelief that It's nearing christmas and I get to watch it again.

I watched it for the first time last year and added in straight away to my Letterboxd top 4. Ended up watched it a couple of times last christmas season Now upon a rewatch a year later, I do not regret it.

I just really connect with this film. I can relate to aspects of pretty much every character as well as identity their archetypes in persons in my ...