Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on December 2013

Home for the holidays? Get into the spirit of the season by taking home some holiday films on DVD. A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004) TV’s Kelsey Grammer proves he can actually carry a tune in this song-filled, family-friendly take on the Dickens tale costarring Jane Krakowski and Jason Alexander…Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You (1996) follows an extended family over one year of holidays from New York to Venice to a grand musical ending in Paris….The computer animated Arthur Christmas (2011; pictured) offers a familiar story of a loser proving himself by saving Christmas, but the all-star (mostly British) voice cast gives it heart.