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‘A festive tour de force’: Guardian writers on their favorite underrated Christmas movies

From a John Cusack 80s teen comedy to the other Frank Capra Christmas crowd-pleaser, here are some seasonal picks you might not have seen

The Guardian - US

The Surprising Inspiration Behind The Most Whimsical Fantasy Movie Of The Year

'Eternity' director David Freyne chats about his surreal fantasy romance, and why the film had to end the way it does.

Inverse

‘Can kick me out of any funk’: why Sullivan’s Travels is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series on writers’ top comfort films is a reminder of why Preston Sturges’s 1941 comedy is unbeatable

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What are the best and worst movies about elections?

As the US prepares to vote for a new president, a look back at the difficulties Hollywood election films have faced

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Canberra film festival defying the odds

Festivals around the world are folding as the cinema landscape changes. Not in Canberra.

The Canberra Times

Best movies on Turner Classic Movies this week: 9 classic movies not to miss

WTW's classic movie expert picks the movies you shouldn't miss on Turner Classic movies this week, August 21-27.

WhatToWatch

‘Eighty-nine perfect minutes’: 30 of the best short films and novels

Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time

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Movie top 10 for the holidays: From a new ‘Scrooge’ to an old Christmas romance you’ve never seen

Our stockings runneth over with streaming holiday options whose titles, on Netflix and Hallmark and elsewhere, tend to blur into a single, extended holiday viewing option we’ll call “Countdown to Falling for Christmas with You on a Holidate on Mistletoe Farm All the Way.” Someone should make that one, and…

Chicago Tribune

Sullivan’s Travels: 1940s screwball comedy pre-empted debate about ‘poverty porn’

Preston Sturges’s film makes a serious point about privilege and the downward spiral of impoverishment while delivering plenty of action and laughs

The Guardian - AU

Marsha Hunt, 1940s star and Hollywood blacklist victim, dies at 104

A Chicago native, she arrived in Hollywood in 1935 and over the next 15 years appeared in dozens of films, from the Preston Sturges comedy “Easy Living” to the adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” that starred Olivier and Greer Garson.

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