Summer is over, which means it’s time to start getting festive.
Sony Movies Christmas launches today (September 24), so we can start getting our festive fix early this year. A new season of Christmas classics awaits on the dedicated Christmas film channel, located on Freeview 50, Sky 319, Virgin 424 and Freesat 303.
It may only be September, but after the year we’ve had, we deserve a little cheer. Here are our top Sony Movies Christmas highlights to get the holiday spirit pumping.
If you can’t get enough of the fake relationship cheese, here’s another good dose of it. Web designer Jolie Guidry returns to her hometown in Louisiana for Christmas on a downer: her ex childhood sweetheart Foster Broussard will be there with his new partner, and she’ll be alone. That is, until Jolie’s best friend Naomi suggests hatching a daring plan to balance the playing field.
We all have that neighbour who goes all out on the Christmas decorations every year, and this film is about them. Bob Wallace prides himself on his incredible festive display each Christmas, until one year he notices his new neighbour, Stu Jones, has put on an even bigger and better display. The fight is on.
Small town sheriff Scott Hanson gets more than he bargained for on a Christmas Eve call out, when he discovers a sleeping Santa Claus in the woods. When Santa is put on trial to defend his identity, Hanson begins to fall for Santa’s court-appointed defence attorney, Sarah, as the whole town wonders what is real and what isn’t.
A festive twist on Groundhog Day, Christmas All Over Again tells the story of spoilt and materialistic teenager Eddie, who is forced to repeatedly endure a Christmas Day without presents until he gets his priorities in order. Can the chain be broken, and can Eddie learn to be a better person?
Watch Sony Movies Christmas on Freeview 50, Sky 319, Virgin 424 and Freesat 303 from today (September 24).