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It’s the most wonderful time of the year (again), and as usual it’s getting to those last few weeks before the big day when creative ideas and planning make way for frantic grabs at whatever is left on the shelves after the Black Friday zombie hordes have cleared everything out.

But fear not: because the best of Christmas is watching movies, re-watching old TV specials and trying hard to forget that George Lucas ever decided that anyone wanted a Star Wars Christmas show, there’ll always be a helping hand round these parts for those who want it.

So if you’re buying for a difficult brother, a picky sister or just for the film, gaming or TV fan in your life, what follows is a compendium of the finest gift ideas for this year’s festivities, as usual there are massive opportunities to win most of what has been included…...

It's pretty typical for me to spend a lot of my time here at Fox Movie Channel looking at stuff ranging from old to really old. But that's not a bad thing - in fact, it's the basis of this whole blog, that I tell you about little gems that you probably haven't seen. And if you've been with me from the beginning, you've picked up a few things about what I most like in movies. I like hot guys that I can pretend are my boyfriends. I like good acting. I like it when film or television lifts you up and takes you wholly to a different world. I like romance best when it's impossible and I like action to occasionally be tempered by a dash of romance. I like most things from the early 80s and I particularly like 80s party scenes. In fact, I kind of want...