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The director, Elordi, and Oscar Isaac join EW for a laugh-filled conversation about the new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel.

Guillermo del Toro on the Frankenstein scene he had to argue for, and how Jacob Elordi found the Creature's voice

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Director Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac on the set of 'Frankenstein'. Credit:

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Guillermo del Toro loves a good movie monster.

In the case of his latest, *Frankenstein*, he actually has two. Yes, there's the Creature (a prosthetics-covered Jacob Elordi) created by scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), but he, it turns out, is just as monstrous, if not worse — cruel and abusive in his treatment of the experiment he thinks is unsuccessful but in reality just needed more of his time, attention, and love.

The Creature is the latest on a long list of del Toro "monster" movies, including the Pale Man and Faun in *Pan's Labyrinth*, the Amphibian Man in *The Shape of Water*, and *Hellboy*'s Abe Sapien. But his monsters aren't there just for the sake of pure horror; they often symbolize the story's deeper meaning. In this case, it's a father-son relationship and Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's core themes of pain and regret. But del Toro expands the emotional spectrum with forgiveness.

The director has waited his whole life to make this movie — he's a superfan of Shelley's 1818 novel and has a collection of Frankenstein memorabilia at his famous Bleak House in Los Angeles — and at one time, it was going to be two movies: one dedicated to Victor, and the other to the Creature; now it's one movie in two acts. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival and a successful limited theatrical/Oscar-qualifying run, it's now available to stream on Netflix.

Jacob Elordi as the Creature and Mia Goth as Elizabeth in 'Frankenstein'.

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Below, del Toro, Oscar Isaac, and Jacob Elordi sit down with ** to talk about the director's vision for his long-gestating film, how Isaac found his way into the mad scientist, how Elordi connected with the Creature and found his voice, and more.

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**: Guillermo, I know this movie was a dream of yours to make for a few decades, and you had a very specific vision for it. But what did these guys bring that you weren't expecting? What did they bring that wasn't necessarily part of that vision? **

**GUILLERMO DEL TORO:** Honestly, themselves. And each of them was a surprise because when I met with Oscar the first time, we were just having a general meeting.

**OSCAR ISAAC:** He wasn't even into my acting.

**DEL TORO: **I thought he was an insurance man. I said, "I'll take that." [*laughs*] No, but when we started talking about our fathers and being fathers and the lineage of pain in a family, how it passes from one generation to the next, at the end of the chat, I said, "I'm gonna write it for you." And when I spoke with Jacob the first time on Zoom, I texted Oscar, timestamped, and I said, "I found him. We found him." You can talk about range, you can talk about this, but it's essence. If the character's essence is perfect for the actor, or the actor's to the character, you don't have to think again. You just tailor it to them, and watch them grow. They can't fail.

**Oscar, you had previously told me Victor Frankenstein was not on your list of dream roles, but the experience became a dream...**

**OSCAR ISAAC:** I mean, you say what you gotta say when you're in room... [*laughs*]

Oscar Isaac in 'Frankenstein'.

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**But you did say that it was kind of a dream experience for you, and what you got to do here. How did this push or change you or challenge you in ways that previous roles haven't?**

**ISAAC:** The form of it is so heightened and extreme, which was really exciting. And very early on, Guillermo said, "This is not naturalism. This isn't naturalistic. I want speed: speed of thought, speed of language. You've got lots of things to say, but I need it to move at a much quicker pace than maybe you'd think naturally you would want that to be." Finding the voice, we talked a lot about what that would be, that would ignite that way of speaking. And also, he encompasses such an incredibly physical character. It's very elemental. He's Jungian, he's archetypal...

**DEL TORO:** And running up and down...

**ISAAC:** Yeah! Those tiny little boots, running up and down those steps.

**DEL TORO:** Those cute little boots.

**JACOB ELORDI:** So cute. [*laughs*]

**ISAAC:** So everything about that, which was also what was so indelible and so pleasurable about that, was also what the big challenge was, encompassing all that.

**Your dad is a doctor, and he got to come to set. You told me you were going to take him to the premiere. What was that experience like for him?**

**ISAAC:** Yeah, he came to set and he criticized Guillermo [*laughs*] and he didn't understand why he was doing so many takes.

**DEL TORO:** He said, "I think you got it on the take before." [*laughs*] I said, "Thank you, sir." And then I understood everything.

**ISAAC:** Then he really understood me! He was like, I made the right decision. [*laughs*] And I did, I brought him to the screening in Venice, and at a certain point I was watching it, and I heard some sniffles behind me. I think it really impacted him.

**DEL TORO:** But funny, his dad was very pleased that we had a medical advisor on the set. He goes, "Does he know about Victorian surgery?" ... "He does." ... "Okay."

Jacob Elordi as the Creature in 'Frankenstein'.

Ken Woroner/Netflix

**Jacob, when you look at yourself in the movie, what do you see?**

**JACOB ELORDI: **I love it. It's really nice because I can see how I feel inside when I watch the film, but I can't see me. So it makes it a lot easier to enjoy the picture as a whole 'cause if it was me on screen without all of that, I think I'd be sitting there scratching holes in my head. But I see a lot of myself behind closed doors.

**Oscar mentioned finding the voice. Was there a lot of trial and error for you, finding that very specific sound?**

**ELORDI:** Yeah. Even while we were filming, [Guillermo would] come back from the edit the next morning and he'd say to me, "There's a gravel that needs to be there," because I was developing with the Creature as the Creature developed in the film. I was lucky enough to, for the most part, shoot it in something of a chronological order. So I got to develop the voice as I played it live. But I had a lot of conversations with [*pointing at Oscar*] Gerry early on, and there was this kind of throat chant thing that we would practice and work on, but it was something that evolved.

**DEL TORO: **Tibetan.

**ELORDI:** Tibetan, yeah. A Tibetan throat chant. But it was something that evolved, depending on the physicality of the scene or how he's being treated in the moment affects the way his voice works. And there's also a sensitivity that you wanna find because you don't just want to growl and do something that doesn't mean anything. But I think the voice really comes from every incision, every memory, every different bit of flesh, every life lived — you have to build something that sounds like that.

**ISAAC:** We worked with Gerry Grennell, was a great voice coach.

**DEL TORO:** [Jacob] didn't think [Oscar] was Gerry. [*laughs*]

**ELORDI:** This is my buddy, Gerry.

**ISAAC:** He calls me Gerry. It's totally fine.

**DEL TORO:** The other thing that was very fortunate, not by design, is the way we shot the movie. We started with the scenes where he was most articulate, and then we went to the ones where he was learning vowels and consonants with the Blind Man (played by David Bradley). It happened in the right way, finding the "f" and the "s." The monologue with the Blind Man was out of the teeth...

**ELORDI:** And David Bradley is also super instrumental in the voice, because I had recordings of him doing Shakespeare when he was younger, and then I had him sitting in front of me telling stories about drinking with John Hurt. And you can hear the way he draws words out. And when he remembers something, the way his voice would change to when he's speaking in the present, the way his voice would change. There was just so much to absorb and draw from.

Director Guillermo del Toro and Jacob Elordi on the set of 'Frankenstein'.

Ken Woroner/Netflix

**How closely does the final look of your Creature resemble your original ideas of what he might look like?**

**DEL TORO:** I have a sketch from 1987 that has a couple of the...

**ISAAC:** He had it on set!

**DEL TORO:** The thing that evolved was newly minted. It needed to feel not like a repaired body but a newly minted individual, a soul. And I think the evolution, if you've see *Cronos*, when I'm trying that look with the vampire, and then I try it again with a vampire in *Blade*, it takes a while to find somebody like Mike Hill, who is a true artist and is a true partner in creation to make it feel exquisitely designed, frail, and vulnerable — all these things that should not go together. The difference between Mike and everybody else: 99 percent of makeup artists are gonna create a monster; one percent are gonna create a character, and Mike is in that one percent.

**When we spoke in Toronto, I had not seen the movie yet, and I asked you to describe him. You said "staggeringly beautiful," and I was like, *What's that going to mean*? And when I saw it, it really blew me away.**

**DEL TORO: **Because it is about, can we ruin something beautiful? And sadly, the answer as humans is yes.

**ELORDI:** Always.

**DEL TORO:** You have to see the purity of the moment when Victor touches his cheek and understand that there *could* be a happy ending, but there won't be. When I saw Jacob in *Priscilla*, there's a moment of rage there, I knew from talking to him on the Zoom that he had all this innocence and pain in his eyes, but the *Priscilla* rage, I went, *Okay, this is what can happen*. The work of a director is to watch and listen.

**Jacob, when I spoke with Guillermo in Toronto, he shared with me that you had said you felt the Creature was more you than you. Can you elaborate on that? What is it about what you got to explore that you connected with so deeply?**

**ELORDI:** I was thinking about this as I was driving here. I don't think you can attempt to find truth in something like this without mining into yourself. You can't just do a roar or bend your fingers a certain way. It has to be everything that you have. And I had such a short amount of time from Guillermo calling to go and shoot the film that the only way through was to go and find a place that I hadn't been to before, which is also — [*pointing to Oscar*] which you'll attest to — the treat of acting. It's constantly evolving, and every time there's somewhere else you can go. The Creature gave me this sort of space. It's the kind of character that allows you to fully go to the bottom of whoever you are, and you have to go down there to play it. Otherwise, you sort of have no chance of attempting to do it honestly if you don't,

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi in 'Frankenstein'.

Courtesy of Netflix

**What was the hardest part about making this for each of you that you weren't expecting? Aside from the days your dad was there.****

**DEL TORO:** Honestly, the way you connect, it becomes a hall of mirrors. And you are all looking for truth and sincerity. I jokingly say it is the first time I have method-directed because it affected me emotionally in a way that no other movie had. Perhaps *Pan's Labyrinth* and *Shape of Water* — those and this are the three times. But this one, I lasted from sort of the first quarter all the way to the end. I felt emotionally involved with the Creature and, sadly, for me, with Victor. [*laughs*] I identified the good traits and the bad traits, and it made me softer.

**For you guys? ****

**ELORDI:** Probably working with Oscar.

**ISAAC:** Me too.

**ELORDI:** Tough stuff. [*laughs*]

**DEL TORO:** Finally, they agree on something. [*laughs*]

**I think people would expect maybe prosthetics, but was that a limitation? **

**ELORDI:** It was so delightful. And I knew it was gonna come to an end as well. There's a finite amount of time that you can put them on for, 'cause the movie has to finish. So to squander any moment in them, I would've just hated myself. People say this all the time, but the more I look back on it, and I look back at being in it, it was just delightful. It was like your dreams playing live, and you are in them, and you're fully conscious and fully awake in your dream. So I can't say anything that was difficult.

**ISAAC:** It's funny 'cause it's not just like looking back now with rose-colored glasses. I kept a journal, and throughout it's like, "This is amazing! ... Oh my God, this day was even better than the last day!" And it really was like that. But of course, there's days where it's like, *Oh, I didn't trust enough, I didn't quite find my flow state, and I was reaching for something when I didn't need to*. So you come in really wanting to leave everything out on the floor, but that's not necessarily different from other films where you just wanna make sure that you're giving everything you can, but the actual joy of doing it was daily.

**Guillermo, you put your own spin on this story, and that includes changing the end of Mary Shelley's version. How did you come to this conclusion? **

**DEL TORO:** I knew I wanted the Creature to have his only act as a human. Meaning, he reacts to love with love, he reacts to hatred with hatred. But the moment they make each other human — father and son — he comes out and he decides in a beautiful moment to say, "The people that attacked me, I'm gonna free them." And turns and pushes [the ship]. And to me, how moving it was... and we were missing a shot that I had to argue with my producing partner — I said, "No, you don't understand, we need that shot." Because you're pushing the ship and looking at it for a second, that gained a lot more weight, I thought. It's a liberation. And I think that's the difference with the book. This ends in a note of possible hope.

*This interview has been edited for clarity and length.*

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'White Christmas'; 'Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas'; 'The Holdovers'. Credit:

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Christmas is as much about memories and tradition as it is celebration and gift-giving. It's a holiday that brings its own stresses, but it's also important to carve out some time for the season's cozier pleasures — a heavy blanket, a hot cup of cocoa, and a movie that reminds you of simpler times.

Below, we've assembled 15 movies that deliver the cozy factor, from vintage soul-warmers like *It's a Wonderful Life* to stop-motion Rankin/Bass classics to more recent additions to the Christmas canon, like *The Holdovers *and *Christmas Eve in Miller's Point*.

Light a candle, roast some chestnuts, and scroll down for **'s favorite cozy Christmas movies.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in 'The Shop Around the Corner'.

These days, Ernst Lubitsch's *The Shop Around the Corner* is mostly remembered as the inspiration for *You've Got Mail,* the maddening Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan rom-com that's become something of a Christmas classic in its own right. Both movies follows ostensible rivals who don't realize they've also been communicating as anonymous pen pals.

*You've Got Mail *sparkles thanks to Hanks and Ryan's chemistry, but there's more depth and specificity in *The Shop Around the Corner*, which stars James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as feuding sales clerks in Budapest leather goods store, a shop so cozy you can practically smell the rich, earthy leather.

"Hanks in *Mail* is lovable, engaging, deeply sympathetic. In short, he's not a heck of a lot more complex than his golden retriever," reads an EW ode of the film from 1999. "Stewart in *Shop* is bitter and hopeful, a jerk and a mensch, scared and serene — all the things a smart, struggling young guy on the cusp of love would be."

It goes on to call *Shop* "one of the most perceptive movies ever made about the workplace," adding, "It sees employees as members of a fractious family and acknowledges that each has a story worth telling (the focus on two potential lovers seems mere happy accident)."

Where to watch *The Shop Around the Corner*: Amazon Prime (to rent)**

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

'It's a Wonderful Life'.

*It's a Wonderful Life*'s dominance as the alpha and omega of holiday classics is sort of funny when you consider how much of it is about shattered dreams, despair, and resignation. But isn't the hope for angelic intervention and a renewed perspective a gift unto itself? Speaking with EW a few years back, stars like Dolly Parton, Claire Danes, and Mary Steenburgen all cited it as one of their favorite holiday movies.

The truth, of course, is that *It's a Wonderful Life'*s story isn't remembered so fondly for its story so much as its cathartic ending, which can't help but make one grateful for whoever they're currently cuddling.

"It fully embraces both the love and humor and compassion, all the positive elements of Christmastime," film historian Jeremy Arnold told EW in 2020. "But it does not shy away from the darker aspects of the season, so it feels very honest."**

Where to watch *It's a Wonderful Life:* Amazon Prime

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn in 'Miracle on 34th Street'.

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Christmas is that time of year that allows even the most jaded adults to feel like kids again — if only for a moment.

The holiday classic that perhaps best encapsulates that sensation is *Miracle on 34th Street*, George Seaton's 1947 film about a Macy's department store Santa who turns out to be none other than Kris Kringle. (He's even forced to prove it in a courtroom.)

"To see Santa Claus proven as real? It's a great scene," said an EW editor in 2016. "Everyone wants to see their childhood continue. The film allows us to believe… and have a happy ending where yes, Santa is real and the world is a nice place."

Where to watch *Miracle on 34th Street:* Amazon Prime

White Christmas (1954)

Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Vera-Ellen in 'White Christmas'.

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VistaVision, a widescreen film format renowned for producing sharp images suited for the big screen, is making a comeback due to recent successes like *The Brutalist* (2024) and *One Battle After Another* (2025). The first movie to be filmed in VistaVision? *White Christmas*, Michael Curtiz's ecstatic musical about a song-and-dance duo working to save a Vermont lodge with the help of two mellifluous sisters.

More than 70 years later, *White Christmas* still looks gorgeous, positively popping with berry reds, snowy whites, and minty greens. It's as easy on ears as it is on the eyes, with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen crooning through the title song, as well as enduring hits like "Sisters" and "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)."

Where to watch *White Christmas:* YouTube (to rent)****

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'.

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The stop-motion spectacles of Rankin/Bass are the platonic ideal of Christmas coziness. And no list of holiday musts is complete without *Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, *one of the earliest creations of the beloved production company.

Is it less polished than many of the Christmas specials that followed? A little longer in the tooth? Oh, sure. But, for many, it was the first movie to crack open the myth of Santa Claus and build an entire world around his workshop.

It helps, too, that it's so peculiar. All those Misfit Toys, strange cadences, and ramshackle songs lodge themselves in young, impressionable minds in such a way that makes them impossible to forget (and enticing to revisit).

Where to watch *Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:* Amazon Prime (to buy)**

The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

The Heat Miser in 'The Year Without a Santa Claus'.

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Like *Rudolph,* the 1974 special *The Year Without a Santa Claus* folds new characters into Rankin/Bass' Christmas universe while also telling an entirely new story. This time, Mrs. Claus (Shirley Booth) recruits a motley crew of elves and reindeer to give a grumpy, spurned Santa (Mickey Rooney) a break after he becomes disillusioned by the world's lack of love and appreciation.

Heat Miser (George S. Irving) and Snow Miser (Dick Shawn), two of Rankin/Bass' most inspired creations, steal the show with their jaunty song-and-dance routine, which still hits all these years later.

Where to watch *The Year Without a Santa Claus:* Amazon Prime (to rent)**

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)

'Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas'.

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*Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas* is among Jim Henson and Co.'s most evocative and immersive creations, a heartwarming tale set on tree-lined riverbanks, icy ponds, and wood-paneled shanties shot with such flair that it's easy to forget you're looking at miniatures.

It follows a sweet otter named Emmet (Jerry Nelson) and his widowed mother, Alice (Marilyn Sokol), each as fuzzy and huggable as can be. They want to surprise each other with Christmas gifts amid hard times, and join a talent show with the hopes of securing a cash prize. Unfortunately, they'll have to square off against the Riverbottom Gang's gaggle of weasels, snakes, and muskrats (who somehow manage to still be so dang cute).

Themes of community and sacrifice abound, as do bluegrass ditties penned by Paul Williams.

Where to watch *Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas:* Amazon Prime

A Christmas Story (1983)

'A Christmas Story'.

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You'd be forgiven for being a little sick of *A Christmas Story*, Bob Clark's beloved tale about 9-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) and the Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle he so fiercely desires. For years, TBS and TNT have made it inescapable with 24-hour marathons beginning on Christmas Eve.

Give it a break for a year or two, though, and you'll return to find it fits just as snug as it used to, its tale of Midwestern holiday mishaps laying over your shoulders like that threadbare sweater you can't bear to thrift.

"One of the best things about *A Christmas Story," *EW previously observed, "has always been its lack of holly-strewn sentiment: the light that shines brightest in it is not the standard glow of lovingly-strung Christmas bulbs, but the wanton plastic leg lamp, wrapped in fishnet and saucily topped with bordello tassels, that Ralphie Parker's dad so proudly displays in the family-room window."

It's amusing how that leg lamp, once so scandalous, has now become as common a Christmas decoration as snow globes and nutcrackers.

Where to watch *A Christmas Story:* HBO Max**

Metropolitan (1990)

The ensemble cast of 'Metropolitan'.

You won't find Santa, Rudolph, or the Grinch in *Metropolitan*, the directorial debut of refined filmmaker Whit Stillman. Christmas lingers in the periphery of this "identity comedy," which centers on the relationships, banter, and after-hours arguments of upper-crust New Yorkers on vacation from college during the holiday.

Much of this lovely, cerebral film unfolds in a cozy Manhattan high-rise, a Christmas tree twinkling in the background as snow falls outside. One memorable scene takes us to a sumptuous Mass on Christmas Eve, "Come All Ye Faithful" filling the vast cathedral.

Traditional holiday themes of generosity, salvation, and tradition are mostly absent here. Rather, *Metropolitan* evokes the youthful experience of being home, avoiding family, and clinging to friends during the holiday break, when responsibility remains over the horizon and your whole life is still ahead of you.

Where to watch *Metropolitan*: HBO Max

Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)

Angela Lansbury in 'Mrs. Santa Claus'.

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Angela Lansbury stars in 1996's *Mrs. Santa Claus,* a mostly-forgotten gem that first aired on CBS in 1996. A story of female independence, it finds Lansbury's titular wife mapping out a new, more efficient route for Santa (Charles Durning, who played the gift-giver five times in his career). To test the route, she leaves the North Pole, only to be waylaid by a storm in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1910.

There, Mrs. Claus becomes involved in the women's suffragette movement, helping to organize a strike demanding labor reforms (and help some locals find love).**

The legendary Jerry Herman (*Hello, Dolly!, Mame*) composed the whimsical score, which exudes Christmas cheer across the film's many song and dance numbers, many of which unfold in the snow-crusted thoroughfares of its charmingly vintage vision of New York City.**

Where to watch *Mrs. Santa Claus:* Tubi

One Special Night (1999)

Julie Andrews in 'One Special Night'.

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There's no shortage of snowed-in romances out there, but you might've missed Roger Young's made-for-TV romance *One Special Night*. Julie Andrews and James Garner, whose screen history dates back to the 1960s, star as widowers who spark a late-in-life connection while trapped in an abandoned cabin during a winter storm.

It's a familiar premise that's elevated by the chemistry of its leads. You may know where it's all heading, but that doesn't blunt the impact of its climactic moment, which unfolds on Christmas Day. Andrews and Garner deftly convey years of love and loss, as well as the difficulties and rewards of moving on. ****

Where to watch *One Special Night:* Tubi

Polar Express (2004)

'The Polar Express'.

This one's for the Zoomers, as the uncanny motion-capture animation of Robert Zemeckis' *The Polar Express *creeped out many older audience members. But kids *love* this movie, and, even if it creeps you out, it nevertheless remains an "intricate, exploratory, indefinably askew interpretation," as articulated by EW back in 2007.

Set on Christmas Eve, this adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's beloved 1985 children's book follows a young boy whose waning belief in Santa Claus is reinvigorated after hopping on a magical train to the North Pole. It's bursting with warmth and wonder (there's even a song about hot chocolate.) And Tom Hanks, a repository of good vibes, plays no less than five different roles (including Santa Claus).**

Where to watch *The Polar Express*: HBO Max

Christmas, Again (2014)

Kentucker Audley in 'Christmas, Again'.

The tragically under-seen *Christmas, Again, *written and directed by Charles Poekel, is a subtle film about Noel (Kentucker Audley), a newly-single Christmas tree salesman whose brief encounter with Lydia (Hannah Gross) brings a spark of magic into the lives of these troubled souls.

It's a simple story that about small joys, like slotting holly into a wreath or how a Christmas tree can light up a child's eyes.**

Where to stream *Christmas, Again*: Cineverse

The Holdovers (2023)

Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Paul Giamatti in 'The Holdovers'.

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Everyone's a little sad in *The Holdovers*, Alexander Payne's charmingly sour comedy about a student stuck at his New England boarding school over the holidays with only his grouchy professor (Paul Giamatti) and the school cook (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) for company. And that's appropriate; coziness and sorrow are not mutually exclusive.

"The film's three lost souls all need someone, and as their secrets trickle out, they become the ragtag family they so desperately crave. Even if only for a little while," reads EW's review. "The holidays are inherently melancholy for so many — the season's emphasis on togetherness simultaneously highlighting our most painful losses. It is through this bittersweet relationship with the season that these characters connect."

Where to watch *The Holdovers*: Amazon Prime (to rent)

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)

'Christmas Eve in Miller's Point'.

The exhilarating *Christmas Eve in Miller's Point* wastes no time in assembling its massive cast of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and pet lizards. An ensemble piece in the truest sense, Tyler Taormina's film captures the joys and exhaustions of holiday gatherings via a Long Island family's annual Christmas Eve shindig.

There are a few through lines here — an ailing grandma and a bit of teenage rebellion — but the film feels most alive when Taormina shakes up the little snow globe he's populated and lets his characters bounce off of each other.

Come for the holly-strewn chaos, but stay for Michael Cera and Gregg Turkington's amusing turns as a pair of straight-faced cops.

Where to watch *Christmas Eve in Miller's Point*: AMC+**

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Yemen's Houthi rebels signal that they've stopped attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping

Yemen's Houthi rebels signal that they've stopped attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping JON GAMBRELL November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM 0 This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo) () DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels are signaling they've stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. In an undated letter to Hamas' Qassam Brigades published online by the group, the Houthis offered their clearest signal that their attacks have halted.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels are signaling they've stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip.

In an undated letter to Hamas' Qassam Brigades published online by the group, the Houthis offered their clearest signal that their attacks have halted.

"We are closely monitoring developments and declare that if the enemy resumes its aggression against Gaza, we will return to our military operations deep inside the Zionist entity, and we will reinstate the ban on Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas," the letter from Maj. Gen. Yusuf Hassan al-Madani, the Houthi military's chief of staff, reads.

The Houthis have not offered any formal acknowledgment their campaign in the region has halted. Israel's military, which has launched attacks killing senior Houthi leaders, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Houthis gained international prominence during the Israel-Hamas war with their attacks on shipping and Israel, which they said were aimed at forcing Israel to stop fighting. Since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, no attacks have been claimed by the rebel group.

The Houthi campaign against shipping has killed at least nine mariners and seen four ships sunk. It upended shipping in the Red Sea, through which about $1 trillion of goods passed each year before the war. The rebels' most recent attack hit the Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht on Sept. 29, killing one crew member on board and wounding another.

While insisting its campaign targeted Israel-affiliated vessels, the ships attacked at time had limited — if any — relationship to the Israel-Hamas war.

The U.S. launched an intense bombing campaign targeting the rebels earlier this year that President Donald Trump halted just before his trip to the Mideast. The Biden administration also conducted strikes against the Houthis, including using America's B-2 bombers to target what it described as underground bunkers used by the Houthis.

Meanwhile, the Houthis have increasingly threatened Saudi Arabia and taken dozens of workers at U.N. agencies and other aid groups as prisoners, alleging without evidence that they were spies — something fiercely denied by the U.N. and others.

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26 people injured after bus returning from church camp overturned on California highway

26 people injured after bus returning from church camp overturned on California highway Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM 0 More than 20 people, including teenagers, returning from a church camp were injured when a bus overturned in the Southern California mountains, authorities said Nov. 10. The bus had been traveling downhill when it rolled over at a curve on State Route 330 near Running Springs, a community about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. The crash occurred at around 8:50 p.m. local time on Nov.

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More than 20 people, including teenagers, returning from a church camp were injured when a bus overturned in the Southern California mountains, authorities said Nov. 10.

The bus had been traveling downhill when it rolled over at a curve on State Route 330 near Running Springs, a community about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. The crash occurred at around 8:50 p.m. local time on Nov. 9, and the fire department said first responders were dispatched to the scene just before 9 p.m.

Upon arriving at the scene, the fire department said first responders discovered the bus tipped over on its side in a turnout with passengers "extricating themselves — including many through the vehicle's roof hatch." The bus carried 36 people.

"County Fire resources quickly declared the incident an MCI (mass casualty incident), with firefighters and paramedics setting up triage protocols, a patient treatment area, and an ambulance loading zone," the fire department said in a statement on Nov. 10.

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Twenty-six people, including three with major injuries, were treated, according to the fire department. Of those injured, 20 were transported to area hospitals by ambulances, while the others on the bus declined transport or treatment.

The fire department noted that there was no fire or hazardous-material exposure, and no extrication operations were required. The agency added that the first patients were taken to hospitals within 15 minutes of the crews initiating triage, and by 10:30 p.m., all patients had been transported.

The incident prompted a large emergency response, including 11 engine companies, 11 ambulances, and four chief officers, according to the fire department. The California Highway Patrol also temporarily shut down State Route 330 in both directions to secure the scene.

The California Highway Patrol is leading the investigation into the incident, according to the fire department.

Fire department: Passengers attended a California church camp

The fire department said the bus was returning to Orange County after passengers attended a church camp in the San Bernardino Mountains near Angelus Oaks, a small community surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest.

The group was with Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Santa Ana, a city in Orange County, the Diocese of Orange confirmed to KABC-TV. The Diocese of Orange said in a statement that the group was attending a three-day parish youth retreat at Camp Nawakwa in the San Bernardino Mountains, KABC-TV reported.

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The Diocese of Orange added that about 125 people, including teenagers, retreat staff, and volunteers, participated in the event, according to KABC-TV. Participants left the retreat on Nov. 9 in several vans and one bus that was involved in the accident.

In a statement shared on social media on Nov. 10, the Diocese of Orange thanked first responders and asked the community to "join in prayer for healing as a way to cope with this tragic incident."

"Today, our thoughts and prayers are with the youth, families, and staff of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church (Santa Ana) who are feeling deeply affected by the bus accident on Sunday evening in the San Bernardino Mountains on the way home from a youth retreat," the statement reads.

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India rattled after car explosion in Delhi kills at least 8 people

India rattled after car explosion in Delhi kills at least 8 people Mithil AggarwalNovember 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM 0 Police and security personnel investigating the scene of an explosion Monday near the Red Fort Metro Station in Delhi, India. (Ritesh Shukla / Getty Images) Indian authorities are investigating "all options" after at least eight people were killed Monday night in a rare car blast that tore through a neighborhood in the capital that is popular with tourists. Several others were injured in the explosion near the historic Red Fort in Delhi, which took place at 6:52 p.m.

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Indian authorities are investigating "all options" after at least eight people were killed Monday night in a rare car blast that tore through a neighborhood in the capital that is popular with tourists.

Several others were injured in the explosion near the historic Red Fort in Delhi, which took place at 6:52 p.m. local time (8:22 a.m. ET) and left the surrounding area laced with charred vehicles.

A "slow-moving vehicle" had stopped at a red light at an intersection when it exploded, Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha told reporters Monday, starting a large fire that spread to nearby cars and rickshaws.

Officials have not said what caused the explosion or identified any suspects.

Delhi Police have registered a case under anti-terrorism laws and are building the "sequence of events," Deputy Commissioner Raja Banthia told reporters Tuesday morning.

"It is too premature to comment upon anything," he added.

Footage verified by NBC News showed burned vehicles at the scene of the explosion, where investigators are combing for forensic evidence that could help determine the cause.

Witnesses described seeing body parts strewn around the area.

"It was like an earthquake, the impact and intensity was very powerful," said Wadqas Shaikh, a 34-year-old pharmacy owner in the nearby Chandni Chowk market.

"We were shocked," he said.

Home Minister Amit Shah said Monday night that it was too early to say whether the blast was a terrorist attack, telling reporters that investigators are exploring all possibilities.

"We will investigate all angles with determination," he said.

Shah was expected to chair a meeting with top intelligence officials on Tuesday morning.

Forensic experts inspecting the blast site in Delhi on Tuesday. (Arun Sankar / AFP - Getty Images)

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said Tuesday that the investigation findings "will soon be made public."

"Those responsible for this tragedy will be brought to justice and will not be spared under any circumstances," he said.

The blast has rattled nerves in India, which almost went to war with its neighbor and fellow nuclear power, Pakistan, over an April terrorist attack in the disputed region of Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists.

India, which said Pakistan-backed armed militants were responsible, launched airstrikes on Pakistan, which denied involvement in the attack. Dozens of people were killed on both sides of the border in the following days before a ceasefire agreement was reached.

Monday's blast occurred outside the 17th-century Red Fort, once the seat of Mughal emperors and now a major tourist destination, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers an address every Aug. 15 to mark India's Independence Day.

Security has been ramped up at key locations around Delhi, which has a population of nearly 33 million people, including the country's busiest airport, several monuments, and train stations, India's federal police unit, the CISF, said in a post on X.

The Red Fort metro station was closed on Tuesday "due to security reasons," the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said on X. The fort itself has also been closed until Thursday, the archaeology agency said.

Neighboring states Uttar Pradesh — the country's most populous and home to the Taj Mahal — and Haryana have also been put on high alert, police there said.

India's financial hub, Mumbai, in the country's south, is also on high alert, police said.

The State Department expressed its condolences and advised U.S. citizens to stay away from crowded areas, especially around the Red Fort. The blast occurred hours before President Donald Trump swore in Sergio Gor as the U.S. ambassador to India.

Modi, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party governs Delhi and also faces key elections this week in the northern state of Bihar, shared his condolences Monday in a post on X and said he had "reviewed the situation" with Shah.

The blast occurred hours after police in Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority region, said they had arrested several people linked to prominent terrorist groups and seized over 6,300 pounds of explosive materials in a joint operation involving police in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. It was not clear whether the arrests were related.

While blasts such as the one on Monday are rare, it evoked memories of previous attacks targeting Delhi.

A briefcase bomb killed about 12 people when it went off outside the High Court in 2011, a decade after gunmen stormed the parliament and killed more than a dozen people.

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The HBO Max series is brimming with references to King's vast literary universe. Every Stephen King Easter egg you may have missed in IT: Welcome to Derry The HBO Max series is brimming with references to King's vast literary universe. By Randall Colburn :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RandallColburnauthorphotoe7e8b48d9f8645588439077e721a5f48.jpg) Randall Colburn Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at . His work has previously appeared on The A.V. Club, The Guardian, The Ringer, and many other publications. EW's editorial guidelines on November 10, 2025 2:37 p.m.

The HBO Max series is brimming with references to King's vast literary universe.

Every Stephen King Easter egg you may have missed in IT: Welcome to Derry

The HBO Max series is brimming with references to King's vast literary universe.

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Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann on 'IT: Welcome to Derry'. Credit:

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Like the malevolent clown dancing in its dark heart, *IT: Welcome to Derry* is a strange creature.

The series is technically a prequel to 2017's *IT* and 2019's *IT Chapter Two, *which were adapted from Stephen King's 1986 epic novel about Derry, Maine, a small town being terrorized by an ancient, child-devouring evil that surfaces every 27 years. According to co-creator Andy Muschietti, who also directed the films, *Welcome to Derry* will adapt the book's various interludes, which dig deep into Derry's violent history and how its namesake creature factors into it.

And while that's true, the show is also its own beast, deviating greatly from King's story by weaving in military intrigue, spycraft, and Native American mythology. That gives the creative team ample freedom to flesh out their vision of Derry, all while paying tribute to the breadth of King's vast oeuvre, which, by virtue of the author's penchant for cross-pollination, lends itself to Easter eggs.

What an Easter egg *is*, exactly, is up for interpretation. But for the purposes of this piece, we're focusing on direct and oblique references to the book *IT* and King's work in general. Also, for the sake of clarity, we'll be calling the story's nameless shapeshifter Pennywise, the leering clown that often serves as its painted face.

Below are all of the Stephen King Easter eggs in *Welcome to Derry. *Be sure to bookmark this piece, as we'll be updating it after each new episode.

Episode 1: 'The Pilot'

Bert the Turtle in 'IT: Welcome to Derry' episode 1.

- The surname of Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo) will be familiar to fans of both the novel and its adaptations, as it's shared by Mike, a key member of the Losers' Club who goes on to become the town's librarian (and the researcher of the interludes on which *Welcome to Derry* is based). An older version of Leroy (played by Steven Williams) is seen in Muschietti's *IT* films showing Mike (Chosen Jacobs) the ropes at his abattoir.****

- Fans may also recognize the surname of Teddy Uris (Mikkal Karim-Fidler), the broccoli-haired pre-teen who features heavily in episode 1. Stan Uris (played by Wyatt Oleff and Andy Bean in the films) is among the most ill-fated members of the Losers' Club. Considering what happens to Teddy at the end of episode 1, it's likely his brother, not him, who is Stan's father.

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'It: Welcome to Derry' star Stephen Rider initially lost out on Mike Hanlon movie role

- We don't spend much time with him in episode 1, but the Black soldier seen with Leroy at the Derry military base is Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk). Hallorann is best known from *The Shining*, in which he teaches a young Danny Torrance to use his psychic gift. The character also appears briefly in *IT*'s first interlude, though it's clear his role will be expanded on in this series.****

- One of the more curious elements of *IT* is Maturin the turtle, a cosmic being that essentially serves as a benevolent counterpart to the evil in Derry. Maturin hasn't been portrayed in any adaptations yet — it would be very difficult to pull off — but is often referenced. *Welcome to Derry* is no exception, with the school's mascot being Bert the Turtle. We also see Matty (Miles Ekhardt) give Lilly (Clara Stack) a toy turtle, and she responds by saying, "Turtles are lucky."

A bloody finger rising from the drain on 'IT: Welcome to Derry'.

- After Lilly hears the voice of missing Matty coming up through her bathtub drain, she shrieks when one of his bloody fingers reaches up through it. This may or may not be a reference to "The Moving Finger," a short story collected in King's 1993 book *Nightmares & Dreamscapes*. In that story, a man is haunted by a long, multi-jointed finger rising from his bathroom sink.****

- Eagle-eyed viewers will see a *Creature From the Black Lagoon* poster in Phil's (Jack Molloy Legault) room. In the book, the scaly Creature is among the many forms Pennywise takes when terrorizing its victims.

"Alvin Marsh," reads bathroom graffiti in 'IT: Welcome to Derry'.

- During a scene between Lilly and Marge (Matilda Lawler) in the school bathroom, the name "Alvin Marsh" is seen written inside a heart on the wall. Alvin Marsh is the name of the abusive father of the Losers' Club's Beverly Marsh (played by Sophia Lillis and Jessica Chastain in the films).****

- This one might be pushing it, but Teddy is notably seen reading a Clayface comic book. For one, Clayface is, like Pennywise, a shapeshifter. Secondly, DC Studios' upcoming Clayface film was written by Mike Flanagan, who has directed multiple Stephen King adaptations, including *Gerald's Game*, *Doctor Sleep*, and the upcoming *Carrie* series for Amazon.**

Episode 2: 'The Thing in the Dark'

Peter Outerbridge as Clint Bowers in 'IT: Welcome to Derry' episode 2.

- This episode offers a look at how the U.S. military is attempting to leverage Hallorann's "gifts," a.k.a. the shining, to help track down Pennywise's lair.****

- Juniper Hill, the mental hospital where Lilly is taken at episode's end, appears in numerous King books, including *IT*. (In the book, one of the guards is named John Koontz, a supposed dig at author Dean Koontz, one of King's contemporaries.)****

- Derry's police chief is named Clint Bowers (Peter Outerbridge), another name that should ring a bell with Constant Readers. Henry Bowers is the local punk who relentlessly bullies the Losers' Club and later falls under the spell of Pennywise. Henry's dad, Butch, was portrayed as a cop in Muschietti's films, and we're guessing Clint is his father.****

- A portrait of actress Rita Hayworth can be seen behind Clint in the bar. The King novella that inspired *The Shawshank Redemption* is called *Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption*. A poster featuring the actress plays prominently into the plot.

A sign announcing the building of a Paul Bunyan statue on 'IT: Welcome to Derry'.

- A great deal of hubbub is being made over the installation of a Paul Bunyan statue in Derry. That statue, as fans of both the book and *IT Chapter Two* know, will be used to terrifying effect by Pennywise.****

- Lilly is seen drinking a Fizz-A-La soda. A fictional soda brand in King's work is Nozz-A-La.****

- This episode marks the first appearance of Secondhand Rose, Secondhand Clothes, a thrift store featured in several King stories. In *IT Chapter Two*, King himself played the store's proprietor.****

- Is this an Easter egg? Maybe? Well, the man Charlotte (Taylour Paige) sees outside the drugstore in downtown Derry looks very much like a younger Norbert Keene, the creepy pharmacist the Losers encounter in the films.

Larry Day as Stan Kersh on 'IT: Welcome to Derry'.

- The butcher Charlotte meets is named Stan Kersh (Larry Day). Kersh is also the name of the elderly woman (?) Beverly finds living in her old home when she returns to Derry as an adult.****

- In detention, "Mike loves Christine" is written on the chalkboard. How can we not think of the 1958 Plymouth Fury at the center of King's 1983 novel *Christine*?**

Episode 3: 'Now You See It'

Kids gathered in a graveyard in 'IT: Welcome to Derry' episode 3.

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- The episode begins at a circus in 1908. One of the games has players trying to knock down turtle carvings. As we established previously, a turtle appears in King's book as a cosmic representation of order. Turtles are all over this show.****

- Muschietti, who directed the *IT* films and is a co-creator of *Welcome to Derry*, cameos as the creepy piano player inside the circus tent.

Andy Muschietti as the piano player in 'Welcome to Derry' episode 3.

- Clint offers Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider) a Pall Mall cigarette. King often has his characters smoke Pall Malls, most notably in his 1989 book *The Dark Half*.****

- Clint also threatens Hank with a prison sentence in Shawshank, a penitentiary that appears in numerous King stories and adaptations, but is best known as the setting for *The Shawshank Redemption*. "You know what they do to kiddie killers at Shawshank?" Clint asks. Anyone who's read the novella or seen the film will have an idea.****

- During Hallorann's vision of Pennywise's lair, he sees a woman floating above him that he calls "grandma." In King's work, we learn that Hallorann's grandma was also gifted with the Shining, and that she was the one who taught him how to use it.****

- When the ghosts of the dead kids from episode 1 swarm our heroes during the climactic scene in the cemetery, Susie can be heard singing the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons," which you can also hear in Muschietti's *IT* movies.**

Where can I watch IT: Welcome to Derry?

*IT: Welcome to Derry *streams on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO Max.

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