So when I was assigned Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage, a straight-to-DVD film releasing today, some of my friends and co-workers reacted as if I was reviewing the bottom of the film barrel.

Q: I have a Thomas Kinkade Grand Winter Festival collectible. When the two parts of the sculpture are fitted together, the tree lights up and plays music. The top half is supposed to rotate ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. In the weeks leading up to Christmas 1977, Maryanne Kinkade has fallen behind in her mortgage payments and is about to lose her small house in Placerville ...

A cozy thatched cottage tucked beside a tree-lined lane ... functional equivalent of comfort food — that made artist Thomas Kinkade a fortune in the 1980s and ‘90s. Museums spurned the ...

Thomas Kinkade, master of the innocuous cottage paintings with warm, candle-lit windows and fluffy clouds just got upgraded with Star Wars. Watch as a batch of Stormtroopers set Kinkade’s world ...

As admirers await an autopsy report, revealing to the world how a 54-year-old man dies in his sleep of “natural causes,” we might pause to wonder about Thomas Kinkade ... “A Kinkade painting typically ...