These are 9 rom coms to watch this Christmas - is your favourite here?

The Omicron Christmas holiday is upon us, most of us are working from home, but it’s almost time to properly turn off your email notifications, and with advice from a top ‘rom com’ expert, hunker down under your duvet to binge-watch heart-warming seasonal films to your heart’s content.

And while there are some great ‘best of 2021 films’ to catch-up on, for many ‘tis the season for re-watching old favorites.

We caught up with ‘rom com’ expert Dr Alice Guilluy, lecturer at the world famous MetFilm School to give us her top tips for this season.

Dr Guilluy said: "Not all of these films are set at Christmas, but most take place over various end-of-year holidays and/or feature copious amounts of snow, food, comedy… and romance."

So, grab the closest box of chocolates and escape the gloom and doom for a few hours with the ‘rom com’ dr’s Top 9 Holiday (mostly) Romances:

The Holiday (dir. Nancy Meyers, 2006)

Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.

Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black star.

If this is too cheesy for you, better turn away now, it’s not going to get better. Nancy Meyers’ is one of the reigning contemporary masters of the rom-com, and this is one of my personal favorites: yes, both heroines’ homes are worth millions, but their messiness and awkwardness make them engaging and relatable, and the production design is – as ever with Meyers’ films – flawless.

https://youtu.be/BDi5zH18vxU

The Shop Around The Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)A true Christmas classic: this delightful epistolary romance between two warring shop-floor workers bears the hallmarks of the famed ‘Lubitsch touch’.