For an alternative Christmas movie, look no further than cult director Ken Russell’s short film, A Kitten for Hitler (2007). Born out of a conversation over film censorship — to which Russell was no stranger — this bizarre eight minute sees a young Jewish boy, Lenny, travel from Brooklyn to Germany on a mission to give “Uncle Adolf” a kitten. Hitler weeps, bagels abound, and all is going splendidly until — well, this is one Christmas tale without a happy ending for its protagonist. Russell’s intent was to cause offensive, resulting in his decision to cast a dwarf as the Jewish child protagonist, Lenny. The meeting between Hitler and Lenny quickly turns sour when Lenny is revealed to be Jewish, resulting in alarming and violent consequences which are subsequently parodied in absurd and unsettling ways. Cheaply made, with facile humor and in general bad taste, A Kitten for Hitler is more ridiculous than it is offensive, and an antidote to the more PC films that will inevitably be filling your TV this Christmas.