The animated, 3-D Arthur Christmas introduces three generations of St. Nick’s family: Weedy retired Grandsanta (voiced by Bill Nighy, hogging the good lines), the obliviously ineffectual Santa Claus ...

It’s the first chords of “Pachelbel’s Canon” that get me. Not the version you’ve heard at half the weddings you've gone to since you were old enough to attend one. I’m talking about the one played by ...

One thing I learned while writing my holiday film guide “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” is that there are two kinds of plots in this sub-genre with a tendency to stink on ice: movies about ...