Have yourself a streaming little Christmas

Christmas is largely about tradition, and sometimes it's nice to watch the same old stuff: movies that celebrate Christmas for all its good qualities, its ability to bring people together and to get some people to be a little bit nicer to one another. The movies here are sure to get the cheer flowing. If you'd rather skip the Christmas carols and good cheer, come back tomorrow when we'll offer our favorite twisted holiday fare. Santa's ne'er-do-well son Arthur (voiced by James McAvoy) gets the chance to save Christmas in Arthur Christmas. Coming from Aardman Animations--the English company that brought us Wallace and Gromit--Arthur Christmas (2011) is one of the most hilarious, colorful, and exciting animated Christmas movies ever made. Arthur (voiced by James McAvoy) is the clumsy, cheery son of Santa Claus; he works in a little, brightly colored office answering letters to children, and he loves his job. His older brother Steve (voiced by Hugh Laurie), on the other hand, pretty much runs the high-tech operation of delivering presents to all the children in the world in one night, while the current Santa Claus (voiced by Jim Broadbent) seems to have reached retirement age.