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The Shape of Water, Channel 4, 9.30pm Drawing on influences as varied as Mike Leigh’s film Happy-Go-Lucky and legendary 1950s monster flick The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Mexican horror maestro Guillermo del Torro spins this extraordinary feat of imagination and image-making which wowed the 2018 Oscars with 13 nominations and four wins including Best Picture and Best Director. It was in Happy-Go-Lucky that del Torro saw and was impressed by British actress Sally Hawkins and it was with her in mind that he wrote the character of his heroine – Elisa Esposito, a mute cleaner at a secret government laboratory to which a strange amphibian creature has been sequestered after its capture in a South American river. And here’s where The Creature From The Black Lagoon comes in, a childhood obsession of del Torro’s and a film he was planning to remake at one time.
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How many times have you watched Love Actually this month? What is it about Home Alone that keeps us coming back for more? Is The Holiday really that bad, and is there such a thing as the perfect Christmas film?
Well, if there’s a lesson to be learned from the cinematic ghosts of Christmas past, it’s that festive features come in all shapes and sizes. Morality tales, glossy soap operas, sugary fantasies, explosive actioners you name it, we’ve seen them all. Some of them get better with every viewing, others have started to lose their sparkle.
Let’s take a look inside the vault and see which Christmas movies have made the nice list this year and which ones deserve to be banished to the naughty corner…
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