Time for one of those advance screenings we all love. Seeing Boxing day a week in advance will be good especially as last week i missed out on Pirates & now know here near me is showing it. Livid. So yea im hoping to laugh & feel all festive at the end of this.

No as many people here as i thought there would be, the last couple of advanced screening they have almost been full, but today its a third full, maybe the word hasnt got out about this film as well as we all thought. Most people are my age late 20s to early 30’s (so basically all little mix fans?).

Trailers, The Cumberbatch & his cats, Cmon Cmon, Matrix & West Side Story. So lots that i will be seeing .Weird not seeing a trailer for Gucci, considering its been an advert before almost all films since cinemas re opened in May, but hey thats tomorrow cinema trip.

& then the film started… & if you want a film about a modern british christmas which is enjoyable than this is the film for you.

So it was a bit of a passion project for the director, who also wrote, produced & stared in the film & it was 85% of the time all about him & his actions that affected others. I mean it was a clever way to do it but because it was so much on him in every respect, you could tell exactly where we were going after the first 15 mins of the film. Again thats my fault for being a film nerd isnt it.

Casting Leigh-Anne Pinnock as a mega pop star was a clever move, other wise every time we cut to her it would have been like whats Leigh-Anne doing in this film. I know that actors should be able to be everyone, but a british film with not that many high profile people in it & then her, she had to have a special role didnt she. She was good, considering it was her first acting job.

Some very typical festive & london clichés to be had here, which is fair enough it is a christmas film (we will get onto the snow) but they were done well for the most part. Especially the nativity they are trying to put on while all this is going on, i lived that. I wanted to know a bit more about that project & why that was so important to so many people yet it was only ever brought in as a distraction.

I laughed a few times, but i wanted it to be funnier. There were maybe 4 more additional laughs in the film than are in the trailer (unless you stay for the credits & bloopers & outtakes). It was still fun but if your main marketing campaign has been Britain’s first all black cat christmas rom com, a bit more com would be cool please.

The food fight on christmas eve in fact that whole christmas eve. As someone who adores christmas eve, i loved that & all the stuff that went down in that house. Best part of the film that house on christmas eve.

So it snowed in london, quite a bit on christmas eve, urgh. However the snow did fall in a car park not on some leafy garden or park, & then there was a lot of it but it didnt lay, which is what would happen, thank god for that. Almost getting there films almost.

the acting was aright, with most of them being unknowns to me or not major lead actors, it was good. IT all felt very heartfelt & true at every point, which says a lot. IT means they all enjoyed doing it & put in effort to make it feel more than just a film but that you were spying on everyone’s christmas.

Did he really think he would get away with going home & not seeing his family? If he did thats a dick move.

She had a huge house didnt she in central london…

It was a nice sweet christmas film , which is the perfect start to my festive viewing. It does sum up a modern uk christmas pretty well ( other than it being about a global popstar & international author) but other than that it was pretty good. Im going to stop typing now & go find my mince pies, properly in a festive groove.