How to make the perfect Christmas film, from the man behind Home Alone & Christmas Chronicles 2

<p>We guarantee there's not a single person reading this that won't have had their lives improved by today's guest. Chris Columbus' filmography reads like a list of childhood memories - From writing 'The Goonies' and 'Gremlins', discovering and directing Macaulay Culkin in the Home Alone movies and then enchanting a whole new generation with the first three Harry Potter movies - it's pretty safe to say, he's a flipping Christmas filmmaking genius. So to celebrate his latest - '<a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80988988" target="_blank">The Christmas Chronicles 2</a>' arriving on Netflix, get those headphones on and prepare for an unexpectedly emotional cinematic masterclass.</p><p>As well as '<a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80988988" target="_blank">The  Christmas Chronicles 2</a>' the shows discussed are :</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80217229" target="_blank">Dance Dreams Hot Chocolate Nutcracker</a></li><li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/18171073" target="_blank">Stepmom</a></li><li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81071970" target="_blank">Hillbilly Elegy</a></li></ul><p>Each week join hosts and IRL friends <a href="https://twitter.com/tolly_t">Tolani Shoneye</a> (of The Receipts podcast fame) and <a href="https://twitter.com/SmileGena">Gena-mour Barrett</a> (who works for Netflix) as they discuss what they're watching, and what they think * you * should be watching. </p><p>Produced by Jamie East and Netflix UK</p>