Christmas cards on the table, this is a rehash of last year’s festive film blog post, but there is a reason for it, in fact there’s two. The first is that there has now been an official poll by the British Board of Film Classification that has ruled, in my favour, confirming that Die Hard – the 1988 action movie starring Bruce Willis as an NYPD detective hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife on Christmas is NOT a Christmas movie.

Who out there can recall the pure, simple pleasure of finishing the school week and anticipating the hedonistic fun that both the evening and weekend ahead promised? Well, as it turns out that particular school day is getting shorter and shorter.