'Tis the season to slob out on the sofa and demolish a packet of mince pies in front of a good movie, or a bad movie - or a movie that's so bad it's good. This year, as ever, a crop of new Christmas films are hoping to be part of our festive viewing - and perhaps even join the ranks of enduring classics alongside the likes of Home Alone, Elf, Love Actually and Die Hard (don't start). So, in an effort to bring you a vital public service by sorting the crackers from the turkeys, and in an attempt to get myself into the Christmas spirit, I binged as many new Christmas films as possible in a day. This is the only 2025 release on Rotten Tomatoes' list of the greatest 100 Christmas movies of all time. The Jonas Brothers find themselves stuck in the UK after wrapping up their world tour and must get home for Christmas.

Last week, to formally consecrate the beginning of the holiday season, my fiancée threw on Christmas With the Kranks. The wretched 2004 Tim Allen film notched an impressively bad 5 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with most critics complaining about the screenplay's awkward marriage of lifeless Middle American sentimentality with the sort of visual gags you might find in Progressive commercials. Christmas With the Kranks is not making the Criterion Collection anytime soon, and I think it's fair to say that there are better ways to spend a winter evening, but if you value the season like we do--and intend to have a Christmas movie on-screen at all times until New Year's--then you must ration the heavy hitters of the genre for the premium slots on the calendar. Or, in other words, if you want to watch Home Alone on Dec. 22, then you might be forced to spend a night with Tim Allen on Dec. 5. We all know what the classics are. The Mount Rushmore of Christmas movies, at least according to mainstream millennial opinion, are Elf, A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Chuck Jones–animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and the aforementioned Home Alone.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Houston, we have a problem: Where's Kevin? Perhaps the ultimate coming-home movie, "Apollo 13," and the ultimate staying-home one, "Home Alone," are both being honored this year, selected for preservation in the National Film Registry They're part of an annual group of 25 that this year spans more than 90 years of filmmaking. The 2023 collection includes the sci-fi sequel "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," the Disney animated classic "Lady and the Tramp," and the searing, Oscar-winning drama "12 Years a Slave."

Would you rather spend a quiet evening by yourself, reading an awful book with a contrived plot and cringy dialogue . . . Would you rather go for a solo walk and get attacked by hissing Canada geese in heat . . . Would you rather go to a dog park on your own, receive weird looks from dog owners because you have no dog, and get your leg humped by three muddy puppies who smell like pee . . . Would you rather sit at home alone on a Saturday night and binge-watch "The Great British Bake Off" while on a strict no-carb, no-sugar diet . . . Would you rather go to a coffee shop by yourself and sit next to someone who starts loudly conducting a phone interview . . .

Have you ever felt guilty about leaving your dog home alone, wishing there was a way to calm it? Amazon's Audible may have the answer - a good book. Dog behavior expert Cesar Millan has teamed up with the firm to create audiobooks for dogs, which use human voices to tell stories to dogs when nobody is at home, keeping then company. Dog behavior expert Cesar Millan (pictured) teamed up with audible to conduct their own study to see what impact audiobooks have on dogs when their owners are away. By using a speaker along with one of the audiobooks, users can play one of a range of audible's audiobooks, with recommended titles including: According to a demonstration video by Millan, having to be away from our dogs can be a stressful situation, joined by guilt and shame for having to be away from our pets for long periods of time, for example when going to work.

If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. Our picks and opinions are independent from any business incentives. When Home Alone debuted more than 25 years ago, poor Kevin McCallister, left behind by his family, was forced to use regular household objects like glue, paint cans, wire and blow torches to protect his house (and himself) from would-be robbers. Kevin made do with his supplies, successfully booby trapping the house, but we can't help thinking his job would have been a lot easier if he had today's smart home technology on his side. Here's how we imagine Kevin would booby trap his house in 2017 with the help of the latest home tech.