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'JONES FAMILY CHRISTMAS is billed as a warm-hearted multi-generational comedy. A story told through the lens of an Australian family whose Christmas is impacted by bushfires.'
Source: Screen Australia.
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Telemovies Have Dominated Christmas Movies for 50 Years – so Why Are the Aussie Straight-to-streaming Ones This Bad?
2023
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2023;'For some, December 25 is a solemn day, key on the Christian calendar, involving important traditions to be treated with reverence. But for many, Christmas is a time for unbridled fun: Santa, presents, and the random grump next door who suddenly decorates his house in an overwhelmingly delirious light display. For a month, we embrace with childlike delight things that for the rest of the year we would dismiss as kitsch, tacky, too bright, too shiny.' (Introduction)
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Telemovies Have Dominated Christmas Movies for 50 Years – so Why Are the Aussie Straight-to-streaming Ones This Bad?
2023
single work
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2023;'For some, December 25 is a solemn day, key on the Christian calendar, involving important traditions to be treated with reverence. But for many, Christmas is a time for unbridled fun: Santa, presents, and the random grump next door who suddenly decorates his house in an overwhelmingly delirious light display. For a month, we embrace with childlike delight things that for the rest of the year we would dismiss as kitsch, tacky, too bright, too shiny.' (Introduction)
