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Our Favorite Christmas and Holiday Movies

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) One of the most popular holiday films of all time. This bracingly unsentimental celebration of family, friends and the power of one good man (James Stewart) to change many lives has been remade but never bettered. There’s a reason for all the parodies, pastiches and homages — it’s so good everyone wants a piece of it Continue reading

Best Holiday and Christmas TV Episodes

“Ludachristmas,” 30 Rock Worlds collide when Jack’s brusque mom, Colleen (“Some terrorist cells are more nurturing than you,” Jack tells her), and Liz’s aw-shucks, “perfect” clan — mom Margaret, dad Dick and brother Mitch, who has “Trauma-Induced Nivea Fascia” — drop by to visit. Jack says there’s no such thing as a perfect family, and Colleen makes it her mission to prove the Donaghys right, eventually turning the drunken Lemons all against each other at dinner. And with that, Jack wishes his mom a merry Christmas. Continue reading