2022 Christmas Movie Guide
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of year again when Hallmark and Lifetime and a great many other outlets put |
| 0:09.4 | on their holiday best. |
| 0:11.4 | That's right, it's Christmas movie season and we're diving in. |
| 0:15.3 | From a splashy musical to a big comeback for Lindsay Lawen, we're dipping a toe in some |
| 0:20.5 | of the highest profile movies of this season. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Linda Holmes and today we're offering up a guide to some of this year's holiday |
| 0:27.1 | movies on pop culture happy hour from NPR. |
| 0:35.2 | Here with me is writer Kat Chao, hey Kat, hello and also with us is NPR senior editor |
| 0:41.5 | Barry Hardiman, hi Barry, hello, I'm so excited to have you both here for this. |
| 0:47.0 | I do want to mention a couple things about the movies that we are talking about this year. |
| 0:51.6 | These are all Christmas movies. |
| 0:52.9 | There are always a handful of movies that focus on other holidays. |
| 0:56.6 | Hallmark alone has a Hanukkah movie this year and a Kwanza movie, neither of which are |
| 1:01.3 | arriving until much closer to Christmas. |
| 1:04.2 | So some of this is about what we have access to right now. |
| 1:07.6 | There are more LGBT movies every year. |
| 1:10.4 | There are more leads of color. |
| 1:11.8 | It's a bigger and wider world out there than we used to get. |
| 1:14.8 | We're just looking at some of the headliners. |
| 1:16.6 | So consider this just a taste of what is going on in holiday movie world. |
| 1:21.5 | Let's get right to it. |
| 1:22.5 | The first one we're going to talk about is falling for Christmas. |
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