Avatar Yourself A Merry Little Christmas! An epic Christmas special, featuring our very own Nativity acted out for you, dear listener, praise for Avatar, aka, Dances With Smurfs (or is it 'Smurves'?), plus a mammoth discussion of the best Christmas films of all time as voted for by you, the podcastees, and latest reviews of recent releases Nativity! and A Christmas Carol. All that, plus a festive special of the quiz In This Week In Movie History. And Christmas greetings from us all!

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Combine Terminator and Back to the Future - what do you get? Well, something that's not quite as awesome as that sounds, but very entertaining nonetheless...

Paul, Jon and Jenny lavish praise on Away We Go and Fish Tank, heap scorn on Gamer and the prospect of the forthcoming Love Happens, and banter tangentially about toilet-based romantic comedies, best pregnancy films in Desert Island Flicks, what the writers of The Pink Panther 2 did next, a squirrel in Paul's garden mistreating its nuts, In This Week In Movie History, plus your emails and tweets via twitter, which are always welcome.

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Dorian Gray's the main movie up for discussion this week, together with Adventureland, Ocean's 11/12/13, Brassed Off, and more. We've also got a new feature based around mis-describing films, together with regulars This Week in Movie History and Desert Island Flicks, which this week sees us picking our favourite Patrick Swayze movie.

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This may just be my new favourite thing on the internet ever.

Our beloved podcast, fine though we strive to make it, is still gloriously lo-tech. We start recording, we stop recording, we edit a bit, but we have thus far shied away from the whistles and bells of jingles and intro music (largely cos one made of whistles and bells would be just an annoying noise). But our listener Blair from Australia has taken it upon himself to write us some lyrics for our non-existent theme. So until we pull our metaphorical fingers out of our musical backsides, here's what he suggested...

Another week has gone by So it's time for Movie Banter Delivering new episodes Like a sack of presents from Santa

So come on join our hosts The one girl and two men The guys are Jon and Paul And the girl's name is Jen

Paul provides the laughs Jon has movie mistakes on tap They argued over Quantum of Solace But agree Max Payne was crap

We all love Back to the Future Time travel is really cool Except when Doc burned those children To provide his train with fuel

This week in movie history Shows Jon is always number one And if the podcast has taught us anything It's that bullying can be fun

Paul interviews comedians Whose recommendations are always right Just don't ask what our hosts get up to Every Saturday night

Come on join movie banter To miss it would be a sin Open your ears and shut your mouth 'Cause it's about to begin

There y'are. Might work.

Well done to SciFiWire for finding this image - how Twilight should have ended. I'd have paid good money to see the next minute of film.

Arguably a better cast than the movie...

Whoops - Paul reminded me that we said we'd put these online, and we/I since forgot. So as promised...

From Jedd:

The Duke of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings)

Sarah Connor: Waitress (The Terminator films)

Star Trek: The Still Picture (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Lukewarm Fuzz (Hot Fuzz)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Mild Depression (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)

Under British Rule (Independence Day)

The Day the Earth Slowed Down (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Mentally Unstable (Psycho)

Blade Walker (Blade Runner)

Dawn of the Critically Ill (Dawn of the Dead)

From Supertoys:

Titanic – Hey, let’s build a boat!

And last but not least, two posters, courtesy of Ryan: