FILMS TO WATCH OVER CHRISTMAS HOW TO

The Banks children are all grown up, but when Michael’s (Ben Whishaw) wife dies, his old nanny arrives to give his own children a spoonful of sugar.Īlternatively, Chicken Run (3.50pm, ITV2) – about a coop of chickens on a mission not to become pie filling – is a good family favourite. Stick with BBC One for The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast at 3pm, followed by Emily Blunt’s glorious turn in 2018’s joyful Mary Poppins Returns (3.10pm). Superworm (Photo: BBC/Magic Light Pictures) When Superworm (Matt Smith) is kidnapped by the Wizard Lizard, it falls to his best friend, Butterfly, to rescue him.

The first of two new animations arrives at 2.30pm (BBC One), when Julia Donaldson’s Superworm is brought to life. Expect some familiar faces, including film director Martin Scorsese. As well as sharing his own (mostly non-denominational) life lessons, he also shares the stage with a host of contributors over the age of 70, who have stories and wisdom of their own to tell.

FILMS TO WATCH OVER CHRISTMAS HOW TO

How To Train Your Dragon starts at 11am (Channel 4), too, so they should be distracted for long enough for you to make some breakfast.įor a more sophisticated wake-up, Pope Francis is on Netflix to host Stories of a Generation. Those woken early by the pitter-patter of thunderous feet and rending of wrapping paper will be pleased to hear that Peter Rabbit 2 is streaming from the morning on Now and available to buy on Sky Cinema for anyone without a subscription. An adaptation of MR James’s novel of the same name, The Mezzotint has Rory Kinnear as Edward Williams, a university professor and unwitting recipient of a mysterious engraving of a house with rather spooky qualities… Christmas Day Don’t Look Up (Photo: Niko Tavernise/Netflix via AP)Īs has become tradition over the past few years, BBC Two rounds off Christmas Eve with a ghost story. It is a star-studded affair as Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Jonah Hill and Chris Evans appear alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who play astronomers intent on warning a disinterested world about a meteor headed to Earth. Paddy McGuinness, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris gift each other cars in their Secret Santa to deliver a Christmas tree to the Top Gear Winter Wonderland.Ĭan’t get enough of the banter? At 9pm on ITV, father-and-son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh travel to Iceland for a special of Breaking Dad.Īs for evening movies, the schedules are a little light on anything new, so head over to Netflix where Adam McKay’s latest, Don’t Look Up, premieres today. If you’re finding it’s “snow fun” halfway through, flick over to BBC One at 8.30pm for Top Gear: Driving Home For Christmas.

Johnny Vegas, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Dani Dyer, Liam Charles and Cherry Healey as they try to prove their skills in the snow. Just when you think the competition format had been stretched beyond belief, along comes The Greatest Snowman (8pm, Channel 4), in which a group of celebrities compete in three snow-building and ice-sculpting challenges.

Films to watch over christmas