festive cheer: Steve Martin and John Candy’s on-the-road odyssey, ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’

it’s streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple TV in the US and the UK

Hopefully you are wherever you are going to spend this weekend, a holiday in the US and a stormy one in the UK. And hopefully, if you had to travel to get there, you didn’t encounter anywhere near the trials and tribulations that Steve Martin endures at the hands of snow, airport chaos, and John Candy as he attempts to get home to Chicago from New York …