Top 5 Non-Traditional Holiday Movies with Graeme McMillan

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts, Film History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Or in your estimation does it not even count? This week on Geek History Lesson, Ashley is joined by journalist and Scottish icon, Graeme McMillan (Popverse, The Hollywood Reporter), to dig dow deep on the questions of: What constitutes a "holiday" movie? Do we like Die Hard? And provide you an eclectic list to enjoy throughout your celebrations this year! Yes, a comic book character makes an appearance!

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0:00.0	Little Graham McMillan, I have an important question for you.
0:16.8	Oh, well, with the introduction of Little Graham McMillan, I'm already into it.
0:20.6	Sure, ask me. Go. It's the most wonderful time of year. We haven't decided if I'm Greg Davis or if I'm Jeremy Wells, because I've started watching Taskmaster, New Zealand. Why do you have such a strong affinity for Christmas movies? If people don't know the lore, Graham and Pop Firstland is our king of all things Christmas.
0:40.0	I love Christmas.
0:40.8	Christmas is a... I just said it was the most wonderful time of the year as a joke because of the song,
0:44.2	but it's the most wonderful time of the year.
0:45.9	I have a theory about this which is not borne out by reality,
0:49.0	but I choose to believe it anyway.
0:50.8	It's the one time of year where people want to be better versions of themselves,
0:55.4	even if they do nothing about it. And even just that desire to want to be better is meaningful
1:02.0	to me. I like the color. I like the sentiment. I like the weather. I say that. I'm in Portland
1:08.7	and we've had really bad weather lately. So I'm not sure I do like the
1:12.0	weather. I like the cold. If you give me like a cold and sunny day. What do you think is an ideal
1:18.0	temperature like 18 Celsius or colder than that? Oh, I've been in America so long. I can't
1:23.4	crazy. I refuse to learn Fahrenheit. If it's below 75 or above 30, I have no idea what's happening.
1:31.6	It's, yeah, I'm, you know, give me something in the, I don't know, give me something in like the low 50s or high 40s Fahrenheit.
1:41.1	And I'm good.
1:42.5	And but sun, if you can give me sun with that as well.
1:44.9	Wonderful.
1:45.4	No, I love the same year.
1:46.5	I think the holidays are lovely.
1:48.6	I love watching the Christmas lights.
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