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The Holdover
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - January 19, 2024 07:19 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's not often that you see a Christmas film with Oscar buzz, nor one that the studio for some reason decide to release in the second half of January. Yet here we are, with the excellent cast and crew of The Holdovers. The reunion of Sideways' director and Star, Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti ...
Pop Culture: with Helen O’Hara
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 29, 2023 07:48 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsSHOW BLURB Welcome to Pop Culture, the podcast that puts soft drinks at the top of the menu. Helen O'Hara and Kat Brown are arts journalists who don’t drink: Helen's a life-long teetotaller, and Kat is four years sober. Join us as we explore the culture lifting soft drinks out of the dark ages, ...
There's Something In The Barn
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 24, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsFolklore: not just a Taylor Swift album. In this Norway-set horror / comedy, an enraged barn elf just ruins a family Christmas in revenge for being fed fish instead of cookies. It may be a relatable beef, but it's taken to extremes in a sort of Gremlins-esque romp through Norwegian folklore. Dire...
Silent Night
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 23, 2023 08:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsJohn Woo is back, and he's brought a Christmas movie: now that's the kind of present we like to see under the tree. Or is it? To discuss this new Christmas-set tale of revenge and voicelessness starring Joel Kinnaman, your host Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara) is joined by Amon Warmann (@AmonWarmann) ...
Hannah Waddingham
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 21, 2023 14:17 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsApple TV's big Christmas extravaganza this year is a showcase for the multi talented Hannah Waddingham, the star of Ted Lasso who is also a classically trained opera singer and Broadway star. As she gathers celebrity friends and family for an evening of Christmassy fun, Charlotte Harrison (@somet...
Wonka
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 20, 2023 06:36 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIs it a Christmas film? Technically maybe not. But then again, yes, utterly. Paul King's follow-up to Paddington 2 is a musical, an ode to the power of chocolate and one of the most delightful films of the year, and in this episode Helen is joined by The Independent's film critic Clarisse Loughre...
Merry Little Batman
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 19, 2023 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's Christmas Eve at Wayne Manor, and little Damian Wayne is home alone. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Well, this animated caper suggests quite a lot might happen, and our young hero is going to have to extend every bit of his efforts to saving Christmas for the whole of Gotham. It's a madcap adventure, ...
Genie
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 18, 2023 09:07 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsBad news: you've lost your job and your wife and daughter have left you. Good news: you just rubbed a random antique and a genie popped out. That's the premise of the new film Genie, starring Paapa Esiedu and Melissa McCarthy and based on a Richard Curtis TV film of 1991. We spoke to director Sam...
Candy Cane Lane
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 17, 2023 09:03 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsYou know the one about the dyslexic who sold his soul to Satan? Well, imagine that but it's a family comedy starring Eddie Murphy and instead of Satan it's a rogue Christmas elf. We have an exclusive interview with director Reginald Hudlin and screenwriter Kelly Younger to find out more about how...
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 17, 2023 09:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsHow can the same s**t happen to the same couple twice, as John McClane might ask? Well, it's a bigger and weirder mix-up of Christmas plans in this British comedy, the sequel to last year's Your Christmas Or Mine. We're once again joined by stars Asa Butterfield and Cora Kirk to talk about everyt...
Santa Claus The Movie
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 12, 2023 15:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt was a famous flop, but the big-budget magic of Santa Claus: The Movie - just re-released in cinemas in a new 4K format - still has a lot to offer. That's especially true for today's guest, comedian and author Marc Burrows (@20thCenturyMarc), who joins your host Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara) to t...
It’s a Wonderful Knife
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 09, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's a spectacular pun, based on the best Christmas Film Of All Time (TM), but now with added slasher action. This Christmas horror isn't for the faint of heart, but definitely has lots of red in it, a small-town where everyone has lessons to learn about the holiday spirit, and even a bit of roma...
20 Years of Tokyo Godfathers, Love Actually, Elf, and Bad Santa
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 08, 2023 17:26 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's 20 years since perhaps the best year for Christmas movies, the 2003 binge that gave us Love Actually, Elf and Bad Santa. But it also gave us one other Christmas classic, less well-known but at least as good. Your host, Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara), sits down with Jake Cunningham and Michael L...
Spirited AND Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 24, 2022 20:23 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt wouldn't be Christmas without some variation on A Christmas Carol attacking our screens, and this year offers two new takes on Charles Dickens' classic story. So Victoriana enthusiast Sarah Cooke joins the pod to talk about both, and The Dickens Fellowship General Secretary Paul Graham stops b...
BONUS EPISODE: Emily Zarka / Krampus
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 23, 2022 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsAnother special bonus episode today, this time focusing on Christmas monsters. Dr Emily Zarka has made an academic study of things that go bump in the night, and as well as teaching her students how to survive the monster apocalypse (we assume) she's the host of PBS show Monstrum. We invited her ...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Christmas Special
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 22, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe Marvel Cinematic Universe has delivered another Christmas-themed treat, and Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb joins us to discuss it. This time it's a one-off short that sees Dave Bautista's Drax and Pom Klementieff's Mantis head to Earth to kidnap Kevin Bacon. Ah, Christmas spirit! If you’ve en...
The Bishop's Wife 75th
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsOne of the classics turns a sprightly 75 this year, so film historian Pamela Hutchinson and The Independent's film critic Clarisse Loughrey took the time out to talk Cary Grant, angels, having fantasies of someone tidying your office, and the many charms of The Bishop's Wife... If you’ve enjoyed ...
The Noel Diary
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 20, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsBrace yourself: The Noel Diary is a Netflix Christmas romance that has some actual dramatic substance! Film critic Amon Warmann and editor Amanda Keats get involved in the discussion of this story of buried family secrets, long-lost parents and a tiny degree of actual realism among the fairy ligh...
Christmas Bloody Christmas
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 19, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsChristmas is not just a time for peace and joy; it also makes a great setting for mayhem. The Evolution Of Horror's Michael Muncer comes by to talk about this robot killer Santa Claus movie, while director Joe Begos drops in to explain just why he loves carnage. If you’ve enjoyed listening to “BA...
A Christmas Story Christmas
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 18, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's strange that one of America's favourite holiday films, A Christmas Story, is barely a blip on the radar in the UK, but with new sequel A Christmas Story Christmas emerging this year, now seemed like the perfect time to discuss the phenomenon that is Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) and his...
The Santa Clauses
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 17, 2022 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsTim Allen returns in the role that defined Santa for a generation - this time on the small screen - and film critics Tom Beasley and Charlotte Harrison drop by to give their verdict. Allen's Scott Calvin is thinking of turning in the suit and retiring to Florida, but first he has to find another ...
BONUS EPISODE: Your Christmas Or Mine interview with Screenwriter Tom Parry
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 17, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsA special bonus episode today, with Your Christmas Or Mine screenwriter Tom Parry explaining how his Christmas comedy of errors came to be, and how he spends his own Christmas. Best enjoyed in conjunction with the Your Christmas Or Mine episode, of course, which also contains cast interviews. If ...
Muppet Christmas Carol 30th Anniversary
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 16, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's time for one of the big ones! The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30 this year so podcaster Tom Salinsky and film critic Olly Richards dropped in to explain why it's one of the absolutely nailed on Christmas classics. Does it need the extra song that's been added back in? What's it like to meet...
Falling For Christmas
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 15, 2022 16:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsLindsay Lohan is back, and this time she's in a Christmas movie that dares ask, what if Overboard, but no-one was awful? Cathy and Dave from The Cinemile join Bah Humbug for a thorough dissection of the hunky hotel owner that an amnesiac Lohan meets, and discuss all the movie's couples we wish ha...
Violent Night
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 14, 2022 22:28 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhat if Jolly Old Saint Nick went bloody all John Wick? That's the brilliant premise of Tommy Wirkola's fun Christmas action movie, and author and award-winning podcast Maria Lewis joins the show to talk through all the madness of a film where David Harbour's Santa Claus does for man-buns what Co...
This Is Christmas
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 13, 2022 20:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis Is Christmas is the heartwarming story of what might happen if you stood up and talked to some strangers on the train. No, it's not about murder! People can be nice. Joining your host, Helen O'Hara, is guest Christmas expert and journalist Olly Richards. We're also joined by the star of the ...
Your Christmas Or Mine?
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 12, 2022 19:26 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWelcome back to Bah Humbug for another Christmas season! Today we're starting with Your Christmas Or Mine, the first of two train-based British Christmas movies this year. Here, young lovers James (Asa Butterfield) and Hayley (Cora Kirk) decide to surprise one another at Christmas - only to miss ...
Lani Diane Rich - special Episode
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - April 25, 2022 04:49 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn order to celebrate the release of Helen's book "Women Vs Hollywood" in North America, we're releasing this special episode featuring the full interview with the amazing Lani Diane Rich. If you're in North America make sure to grab a copy now! You can follow Lani Diane Rich (she/her): @LaniDi...
Shelley Stamp Special Episode
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - February 04, 2022 17:15 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn order to celebrate the release of Helen's book "Women Vs Hollywood" in paperback, we're releasing this special episode featuring the full episode with Shelley Stamp. If you prefer paperback books or love purple books make sure to grab a copy now! Shelley Stamp (she/her): @StampShelley on Twit...
A Hawkeye Christmas with Directors Bert and Bertie
Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara - December 24, 2021 09:13 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsBert and Bertie, directors of the Marvel TV show, join Helen to talk all about filming a TV show based at Christmas If you’ve enjoyed listening to “BAH HUMBUG” please take a moment to give us a lovely 5 STAR rating on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people to find the show. If you haven’t d...
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