{"id":5161,"date":"2026-01-09T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:26:34","slug":"sick-of-holiday-fare-cozy-up-with-these-22-winter-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/?p=5161","title":{"rendered":"Sick of Holiday Fare? Cozy Up With These 22 Winter Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53.273542600897\">\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to watch this and not come away deeply impressed by penguins. Excellent for young kids, especially as a means to approach our current climate struggles and what they mean for penguins and their ilk.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Happy Feet<\/em> (2006)<\/h2>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-ldQZQl ejqOZZ iframe-embed\"><\/figure>\n<p>A childhood favorite for many millennials, <em>Happy Feet<\/em> follows singing and dancing penguins in Antarctica, voiced by a surprisingly stacked cast. (See: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Nicole Kidman, and more.)<\/p>\n<h2><em>Last Holiday<\/em> (2006)<\/h2>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-ldQZQl ejqOZZ iframe-embed\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite its title, <em>Last Holiday<\/em> maintains a respectful distance from the worst of the Christmas movie genre. Instead it\u2019s a solid rom-com set at the glamorous Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic, where\u2014after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis\u2014Queen Latifah charms nearly everyone in her path as she tries out snowboarding, goes shopping, and generally has the time of her life.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Frozen I &#038; II<\/em> (2013, 2019)<\/h2>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-ldQZQl ejqOZZ iframe-embed\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impossible to watch this and not come away deeply impressed by penguins. Excellent for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markcomedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}