Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara Podcast
1) Merv: A movie about a dog should be a slam dunk for Christmas. Right?
A couple split up and negotiate shared custody of their dog - but when he gets depressed, they reunite for Christmas to cheer him up. It's a rock-solid premise for some light comedy, with likeable sta...Show More
2) Jingle Bell Heist: It's definitely better than its title, but how much better?
Christmas is a time of miracles, and also robberies, according to Netflix's new rom-com crime caper, wherein two plucky but dodgy young people played by Olivia Holt and Connor Swindells decide to rob ...Show More
Jingle Bell Heist: It's definitely better than its title, but how much better?
26:41 | Dec 21st, 2025
3) Christmas, Again: Will this indie film become a mumblecore seasonal classic?
It's not all glitzy romances and action movies at Christmas; spare a thought for the microbudget indie movies that are also set at this time of year. Take, for example, 2014's Christmas, Again from di...Show More
Christmas, Again: Will this indie film become a mumblecore seasonal classic?
28:12 | Dec 21st, 2025
4) The Family Plan 2: Mark Wahlberg leads an international criminal family Christmas - or something
What's more important: Christmas or geography? Can sexy Russian spies also be cat ladies? And is Marky Mark secretly French? All these and more questions will be answered on today's episode of Bah Hum...Show More
5) A Very Jonas Christmas Movie: Are we broken or is this actually funny?
Cynical brand extension or charming Christmas adventure? Why not both! A Very Jonas Christmas Movie features pop siblings the Jonas Brothers on an epic quest to get home from London to spend the holid...Show More
6) Goodbye June: Life, death and Nativity plays with Andrea Riseborough and Timothy Spall
Kate Winslet's directorial debut is not your typical Christmas movie. It's set mostly in a hospital, as a family gather around their dying matriarch (Helen Mirren), and features more IVs than holly-an...Show More
7) Silent Night Deadly Night: We talk to the director of this season's sweetest serial killer slasher
This year has been relatively light on Christmas horror, but fear not. There's plenty of claret on offer in the remake of 1984's slasher Silent Night Deadly Night from director Mike P. Nelson. It's th...Show More
8) Pillion, with director Harry Lighton: the unlikely love story with a Christmas twist
It's not often here at Bah Humbug that we can lay claim to a genuinely great, not-graded-on-a-curve film set over the Christmas season, but say hello to Harry Lighton's Pillion, starring Harry Melling...Show More
Pillion, with director Harry Lighton: the unlikely love story with a Christmas twist
32:31 | Dec 12th, 2025
9) Oh. What. Fun. - Michelle Pfeiffer, Christmas, an all-star cast. It *must* be fun, right?
The last time Michelle Pfeiffer made a Christmas movie, the result was the great Batman Returns. Now she's back in Oh. What. Fun., starring with the likes of Felicity Jones, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe G...Show More
10) Tinsel Town: or, some Brits attempt to explain panto to the rest of the world
Today's episode of Bah Humbug, the Christmas movies podcast, focuses on Tinsel Town, the new Sky film wherein a spoiled Hollywood star reluctantly agrees to do theatre in the UK - and unwittingly find...Show More
Tinsel Town: or, some Brits attempt to explain panto to the rest of the world
33:19 | Dec 6th, 2025