The Metropolitan

The Metropolitan

Home
Essays
Mixtape
Raised By Puffins
Can We Show The Kids?
Track Listing
On The Box
Canon fodder
Seasons
Archive
About

Christmas

Christmas Movie Season 2025
And a one, two, three, four...
Dec 2 • 
The Editors
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special (1969—1980)
What do you think of it so far?
Dec 21, 2024 • 
Tobias Sturt
Batman Returns (1992)
Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.
Dec 7, 2024 • 
Tobias Sturt
The Best Way to Spread Gen X Cheer
Over-analysing ‘Elf’
Dec 23, 2023 • 
The Editors
He’s making a list
When he was six, my son devised an unimprovable experiment to find out whether Father Christmas existed.
Dec 16, 2023 • 
Rowan Davies
Cassandra Darke
Christmas in the everyday
Dec 9, 2023 • 
Rowan Davies
The other Christmas stories
Sitting down with the Christmas Radio Times and a highlighter
Dec 2, 2023 • 
Tobias Sturt
It’s A Wonderful Script
Every time a bell rings, a writer gets residuals
Dec 24, 2022 • 
The Editors
For Dad
The significance of Holly McClane's watch
Dec 17, 2022 • 
Tobias Sturt
The Box of Delights
John Masefield (Heinemann, 1935)
Dec 10, 2022 • 
Tobias Sturt
A Christmas Carol, five ways
How the Dickens did he pull it off?
Dec 3, 2022 • 
The Editors
© 2025 The Metropolitan · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture