With the holiday season fast approaching movie-mad readers may well be plundering the dustier sections of their DVD shelves, or flicking through the carefully curated offerings of their streaming service of choice, for the perfect Christmas movie. While many of you will find festive fun in Home Alone, Elf, Die Hard (yes… of course it is), Scrooged and so on there will be a hefty subset who turn to Richard Curtis’s 2003 sugar high of a film, Love Actually.
Time seems to be impervious to the perennial seasonal cheer of Curtis’s film. It is mawkish perhaps, ludicrously well-off certainly, but utterly charming nonetheless. One of the stories Curtis and his team follow in the film is that of faded rock star Billy Mack (a phoenix-like performance from national treasure Bill Nighy), whose seemingly disastrous final shot at fame all comes good with his ultimate triumph – a Christmas No. 1.
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Time seems to be impervious to the perennial seasonal cheer of Curtis’s film. It is mawkish perhaps, ludicrously well-off certainly, but utterly charming nonetheless. One of the stories Curtis and his team follow in the film is that of faded rock star Billy Mack (a phoenix-like performance from national treasure Bill Nighy), whose seemingly disastrous final shot at fame all comes good with his ultimate triumph – a Christmas No. 1.
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- 12/11/2018
- by Michael Walsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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