It's a Wonderful Life (movie)

I love this time of year.. the lights, the music, the good cheer... and, the best part of all, the non-stop Christmas movies!!! As I write this, I'm chillaxin on my couch enjoying "Snowglobe." It's a made-for-tv flick brought to us by the good people...

Hollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and...

On Christmas Eve, NBC offers its second airing of the classic "It's a Wonderful Life" this holiday season (the first was Dec. 16). This year also marks the 1946 film's 60th anniversary, which has prompted Paramount Home Video to release a new DVD...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006 Soft ratings for Christmas Eve didn't keep CBS from dominating once again on Sunday. CBS averaged an 5.8 rating/13 share for the night, beating out NBC's 2.8/6. ABC's 2.5/6 edged out FOX's 2.3/5 for third,...

Friday September 25, 1998      "Pecker" is a cautionary tale as only John Waters can caution. Think of writer-director Waters as the Frank Capra of an alternate universe and this film as his genially twisted version of "It's a Wonderful Life," and you'll...

Friday March 9, 2001      Like many ambitious, provocative films, "15 Minutes" is a bit of a mess. Both audacious and unwieldy, exciting and excessive, this dark thriller is too long, too violent and not always convincing. But at the same time, there's...

How do you bring "It's a Wonderful Life" to the stage, intact? American Theater Company is smart enough to know they can never duplicate Frank Capra's beloved 1946 film, but transforming the film into a radio play--performed as theater--can unleash the...

Jim Carrey may have it all -- formidable comic gifts, physical grace, good looks and charm -- but "Bruce Almighty," his latest collaboration with director Tom Shadyac, is not so mighty. As a showcase for Carrey it's sufficiently surefire that it will...

In the '60s, beach-roaming kids discovered the Byrds playing at Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim's open beach bash. A decade later, Cher's son Elijah Allman's first birthday party featured elephants and an Army tank. More recently, a lemonade stand served Tom...

Combine the phrases "It's a Wonderful Life" with "A Live Radio Play" and you seem to imply irreverence — a seasonal mess of potage gurgling with exaggerated Jimmy Stewart impressions, faux Donna Reed-style sap, campy sound effects and enough fake...

For every married couple who have struggled without success to conceive a baby, there are dozens of well-wishers standing by, praying and kvetching. If the value of a film could be measured purely by the number of lives it spoke to, then "Maybe Baby"...