elves

It's not every day that Father Christmas finds himself briefing his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30C for days on end.

When the topic turns to her bookshelf, Thurman admits she’s become a fan of stories of orcs and elves in love.

In the film, Buddy is an adult human who had been raised by elves at the North Pole but travels to New York to meet his biological father.

She encounters elves fixing the trashed house, models playing Twister in high heels, Jesus opening a fridge to check for food and a woman destroying a Christmas tree with garden shears.

We believe in Santa Claus, reindeer that fly, and elves on shelves that descend from the North Pole and embed themselves in our homes.