Christmas comes early for fans of Aardman Productions, Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton (“Your Sister’s Sister”) and “Spider-Man.” Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire ...

Here’s hoping this movie becomes another family Christmas classic, which it very much deserves. A veddy British take on the “monarchy” of Santa, “Arthur Christmas” is an inventive, sweet-natured ...

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 ...