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[Rafael Nowning]

KevinMcCallister is a smart-mouth eight-year-old kid about to go on a big family trip to Paris for Christmas. In the morning, the McCallisters and their extended family head off to the airport and in the stress of everything forget Kevin at home. Left alone with the big house all to himself and no one to tell him what to do, Kevin enjoys the unexpected luxury. But when two robbers look to target the house over Christmas, the young Kevin must find a way to protect himself and the family residence.

We're more than a week into November and that means, for many people around the country, the holiday season is underway. As Thanksgiving approaches in just a couple of weeks, plenty of folks are already planning their holiday festivities, pulling out their Christmas decorations, and starting their annual festive rewatches. There's a roster of classic holiday films that are on the annual list for quite a few of us, and the recent streaming surge has made it a lot easier to find many of those movies online.

While streaming has made movies more accessible for many, it has also complicated things a little bit. With so many streaming services out there, it can be hard to track down some of your favorite Christmas films. That's where we come in.

From It's a Wonderful Life to Elf, and everything in between, we sought out the most popular holiday movies and where they're currently streaming. There are obviously going to be a lot of personal favorites that may not be on this list, but this will address the most talked-about and rewatched Christmas titles out there.

Heading into the month of November, the original Home Alone movie couldn't be found on Disney+, the streaming service where fans are used to seeing them. Fortunately, that has already changed. Disney+ continues to be the home of the Home Alone film franchise.

Disney+ has Home Alone and Home Alone 2, both of which star Macauley Culkin as Kevin McAllister. The streaming service is also the place to find Home Alone 3, Home Alone 4, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, and Home Sweet Home Alone.

In addition to streaming the Home Alone franchise, Disney+ has quite a few holiday offerings to choose from. The Santa Clause and both of its sequels are streaming on Disney+, along with the new series The Santa Clauses, which is entering its second season.

The Peanuts holiday specials used to air on TV every year, but that changed when Apple TV+ acquired the exclusive rights to those specials. Now, Apple TV+ is the only place to find them, and that includes A Charlie Brown Christmas.

One of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time, It's a Wonderful Life is one of the most accessible films on this entire list. Starring James Stewart as George Bailey, Frank Capra's 1946 classic is on a number of streaming services.

Few things are as synonymous with the festive season as an overstressed mother shouting "KEVIN!" at her mischievous eight-year-old son. One of best Christmas movies ever made, the Yuletide season isn't the only time of year to revisit the dysfunctional McCallister clan, with the movie making a great watch (or, more likely, re-watch) all year round.. Read on as we explain how to watch a Home Alone stream online in 2021 with Disney Plus.

For the uninitiated, Home Alone stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, a relatively normal (if slightly precocious) suburban kid left behind by his family over the holidays, just as casually as you or I forget to pack a toothbrush when we decide to jet off to Paris.

While Kevin is quick to the enjoy the freedom that comes with becoming a de facto emancipated minor - eating his weight in ice cream and tormenting the local pizza delivery guy - he soon realizes the family homestead is under threat and only he can protect it from a pair of bungling burglars.

Enter Harry and Marv, played with aplomb by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The dimwitted duo have spared no effort casing the McCallister's well-to-do neighborhood and are sure of an easy score - but Kevin has other ideas.

Hilarity ensues, with Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, and Kieran Culken also featuring in the superb cast of this 1990 family-friendly film - which is directed by Chris Columbus, produced by the legendary John Hughes, and rated PG by the MPAA.

This means that adults will be able to watch every episode of the Simpsons ever made while kids can watch classic Disney films like Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and more. A Disney Plus subscription also gives you access to the latest Marvel movies and the entire Star Wars canon - all for just $6.99/7.99/AU$11.99 a month.

Plus, the addition of Star on Disney Plus more than doubles the amount of grown-up content on the service for just a marginal price increase. Some of the best Star on Disney Plus shows at launch include Big Sky, Solar Opposites, and Love, Victor. Parents can sleep easy, too, as the rollout of the channel includes a slew of new parental control features to ensure the service stays as family-friendly as ever.

Disney Plus is already cheaper than competing streaming services like Netflix but you can save even more when you sign up for an annual subscription which gives you 15% off the monthly price. Obviously you have to splash the cash at the start, but with so much content to get stuck in to we very much doubt you'll run out of things to watch before the 12 months are up. You're looking at $69.99/79.99/AU$119.99 for the year.

Or if your interests are farther reaching (and you're in the US), then we'd seriously suggest looking at the fantastic value bundle package. It adds Hulu and ESPN+ to your subscription price. The Hulu element opens up a world of Hulu Originals such as The Great, Upload, Helstrom and Normal People. While ESPN+ brings tonnes of exclusive live sport, highlights and documentaries. The combined bundle costs just $12.99 a month.

Disney Plus is showing no signs of slowing down since the service first launched last November and in addition to being the exclusive release platform of new Pixar movies like Soul, subscribers can look forward to Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian, Mulan, Hamilton, WandaVision and much more.

Now that Disney has set the precedent of releasing its live-action Mulan remake on the service instead of in theaters through its Premier Access program, expect the company to keep bring more blockbuster films that were originally intended to be shown on the big screen to Disney Plus in 2021.

And finally, there's the new Star payload that most global markets get to enjoy and sees the amount of content available through Disney Plus more than double, with a particular eye to shows grown-ups are going to enjoy. It costs a tiny bit more, but is worth it based on our initial impressions - and you can still save big by going with an annual subscription.

James is a technology journalist with nearly 10 years experience and currently Sports and TV Streaming Editor at Future, where he works across TechRadar, T3 and Tom's Guide. He is here to help you find the best ways to watch sports, TV shows and movies online. Previously, he was News and Features Editor at Trusted Reviews, Editor of Lifehacker UK, and Senior Staff Writer at ITProPortal."}), " -0-10/js/authorBio.js"); } else console.error('%c FTE ','background: #9306F9; color: #ffffff','no lazy slice hydration function available'); James LairdSocial Links NavigationJames is a technology journalist with nearly 10 years experience and currently Sports and TV Streaming Editor at Future, where he works across TechRadar, T3 and Tom's Guide. He is here to help you find the best ways to watch sports, TV shows and movies online. Previously, he was News and Features Editor at Trusted Reviews, Editor of Lifehacker UK, and Senior Staff Writer at ITProPortal.

Over the course of history, technophobes and technoskeptics have been fundamentally incorrect. Technological advancement has enormously improved the human condition, and the onward and upward trajectory of innovation and growth is very good.

Still, not every single innovation and advancement has been good. As I've written before, the opioid crisis is a complicated phenomenon, but it has a technological root: the world has become much better at manufacturing fentanyl, which is easier to conceal and smuggle because of its higher potency relative to other drugs. Similarly, I was recently rewatching Breaking Bad, the premise of which is that Walter White is a genuinely skilled chemist and that makes him better at methamphetamine manufacturing than the average meth cook.

Obviously watching too much Netflix is not unhealthy on the order of doing a ton of meth. But I do worry that the proliferation and improvement of home entertainment are perhaps making us more atomized, unhappy, and dysfunctional.

Lehman is a conservative writer, so when he expanded on this idea, the article included a lot of conservative tics, like a very snide view about education, the belief that college graduates are uniquely bad, and most of all, a broadly Hegelian view in which changes in our world are driven by changes in our ideas. Lehman thinks millennials, especially well-educated ones, are too risk-averse and that this ultimately leads to a life of boredom:

The video games theory of the 2008-2012 decline in labor force participation was wrong (note that it turned around as the labor market improved), but the long-term decline in the share of men who are working fits the picture of idleness becoming less boring.

Sort of weird that this post came up. Right now we have our son-in-law staying at our house with my step-daughter. He got out of the Marines a year ago. Since then he has tried multiple jobs and never lasted more than a week. He also tried college. Quit after one semester.

More importantly, I think this is absolutely true when it comes to dating, on both ends. I'm going to give of course, pretty hyperbolic examples, but I think parts of all of it are why there's a depression in sex on the edges.

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