A Podcast For Christmas

Ho ho.... ho can you believe it! We're wrapping up another year at A Podcast For Christmas! But don't you worry, we're going out with a bang....literally... this move is SO horny for Christmas. Join Dorian and Katie for freaky drag lore, festive sugar daddies and fraud. 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬My Secret Santa from Netflix ✍️ Film Description ✍️ : A single mom needs a job. A ski resort needs a Santa. D...

Ho Ho Haggis, it's that time of the year again where we deep dive into the American fascination with a Scottish Christmas. Expect.... well everything you always expect from one of these ... but this time with added GHOSTS, CRYPTIDS and your unemployed boyfriend following you back to America (threat) 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬Saving Christmas Spirit from AMC ✍️ Film Description ✍️ : ’An archaeologist dis...

Ho ho how does this count as a rom com? Welcome back to this... spy buddy comedy podcast... I guess. Come along for the ride as we get broadly misled by marketing! We still had fun, mostly we spent a lot of time talking about Italian Brain Rot 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬 Jingle Bell Heist from Netflix ✍️ Film Description ✍️ : ’Tis the season to give. And take. Two down-on-their-luck hourly workers team u...

Ho ho hiya! Welcome back for season three of A Podcast For Christmas where our lovely guest Annie demonstrates her frankly insane ability to choose the most innocuous Christmas movie possible and there still, somehow, ends up being a ghost involved. If you to love festive tenpin bowling, lets face it, who doesn't, topped with a Tony nominated actress singing off key and some crazy cryptic Christma...

It’s me… ho ho hello! I’m the podcast , it’s me! … Does that work? Welcome to the most deeply heterosexual movie we’ve covered so far…, so obviously I've drafted in my favourite lesbian Eilis to cover this one. I guess Lifetime is just allowed to publish Real Person Fiction these days? I thought we had all decided that that was a weird thing to do in the AO3 era….anyway…join us as we discuss Taylo...

Ho ho have you ever been so down bad you start eyeing up the local snowmen.... me neither. However, this weeks movie dares to dream. When you think about the implications, this is technically a semi horrifying paranormal romance so I've drafted in my lovely Liv, of Midnight Fun fame, to unpack... all of that. Join us to chat about the latest iteration in the NCCU (Netflix Christmas Cinematic Unive...

Ho ho hello... or should I say ho ho halò (this is what Google told me was hello in Scottish Gaelic... sorry). Katie has brought her Senior Scottish Correspondent Meg back to be lovingly mocked by both our host and the Hallmark corporation at large. Tune in for tiny horses, alarming bagpipes and a complete historically account account of the landed gentry. 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬 : A Merry Scottish C...

In the first episode of our new festive season Katie and Annie are back with a bang...quite literally as this movie starts with a good old bash over the head. So, wait? We're doing ghosts? You bet. Join us in this murder for Christmas as we try to answer the eternal questions: What if The Woman In Black was a holiday romance? 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬 : Spirt of Christmas from Lifetime ✍️ Film Descript...

False advertising this week when Katie and Meg sit down to watch 'A Castle for Christmas' and to their horror find there is nary a castle nor hardly any Christmas in sight! Not to worry as there's still enemies to lovers, 'there was only one bed castle', and more Scottish stereotypes than you can shake a bagpipe at! 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬 : Castle for Christmas from Netflix ✍️ Film Description ✍️ :...

This week join Katie and Annie to venture cautiously into the weirdest holiday romance yet, with dubiously legal private investigators, secret babies and a sound designer let loose- oh my! 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬 : Christmas Wedding Planner from Brain Power Studio ✍️ Film Description ✍️ : A wedding planner is in the midst of planning her cousin's lavish and exclusive wedding when a devilishly handsom...

On the second episode of the podcast Lifetime's first Lesbian Holiday Romance gave to me: 12 trees a-whispering, 11 Halloween homes, 10 chickens coop-in, 9 ladies dancing, 8 magic owls, 7 clunky references, 6 classic flannels, 5 u-hauls, 4 ugly bangs, 3 tarot cards, 2 crafting vests and girls with no chemistryyyyy. Join Katie and her favourite lesbian Eilis on a deep dive into Under The Christmas...

Katie & Liv take a tumble into the strange town of Angel Falls just in time for Christmas.👼 Stop by with us for Mary's GBF, ice skating mimes and robot angels- because, hey, sometimes you just need a man that's hotter than your current boyfriend to teach you the true meaning of Christmas! 🎄 🎬 Film Discussed 🎬: Angel Falls Christmas from Great American Family ✍️ Film Description ✍️ : A devo...

Ho ho hello and welcome to this prologue episode of A Podcast For Christmas. Join us for a tour at breakneck speed to set the scene for this podcast including: Perceptions of women's entertainment and why media targeted towards women is so culturally denigrated Hallmark Channels origins from religious broadcasting to queer controversy A new era of inclusivity and the surprising diversity behind th...

Snuggle up by our virtual fireplace as host Katie attempts to take her friends from skeptics to sentimentals in A Podcast For Christmas.  Deep dive into the festive fluff as we debate cynicism vs escapism, Christmas spirit vs capitalism and romance vs realism all through the lens of Hallmark-esque Holiday movies. We’ll ask - and keep asking - despite lack of on screen representation are these...