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Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DEAD BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2025)

 

Real estate developer Marcus King (De'Tuan Williams) leave his job at an established firm and sets up on his own against the wishes of his wife Renee (Ariel Brown) which causes friction and leads to her spending increasingly more time with her sister Simone (Rachel Ann Jerome) which irritates Marcus.

Then one night he meets Nina (Racquel Palmer) an enigmatic woman in the roof garden after which his life rapidly spirals out of control, in betrayal and deception which leads in turn to Murder.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SINGLE FOR CHRISTMAS (2026)

 

Married couple Abby and Ben (Amanda Brown and Jason Park) have reached a hiatus in their lives and seem to want different things so after an argument just weeks before Christmas they decide to spend the holidays apart and focus on deciding what they want before the new year.

Ben returns home to assist Pops (Robert Germar) on the family farm while Abby throws herself into the dating scene but all the time they are reflecting on the memories they shared together amidst the sparkling lights and cheerful traditions.

As Christmas Eve approaches, they have to work out if their marriage is over or if they have a future together and if it’s the latter they have to meet by the Christmas Tree in the town square.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SINGLE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2026)

 

Married couple Abby and Ben (Amanda Brown and Jason Park) have reached a hiatus in their lives and seem to want different things so after an argument just weeks before Christmas they decide to spend the holidays apart and focus on deciding what they want before the new year.

Ben returns home to assist Pops (Robert Germar) on the family farm while Abby throws herself into the dating scene but all the time they are reflecting on the memories they shared together amidst the sparkling lights and cheerful traditions.

As Christmas Eve approaches, they have to work out if their marriage is over or if they have a future together and if it’s the latter they have to meet by the Christmas Tree in the town square.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOMECOMING FOR THE HOLIDAYS (2019)


Country singer Charlotte Quinn (Laura Osnes) returns home to Canyon Pass, Montana, for the holidays as her brother Eric (Jesse Irving) is coming home after completing his final tour of duty.

Her parents Patty and Glenn (P Lynn Johnson and Jan Bos) are expecting Eric to take over the family’s construction business, but Eric has other plans.

Meanwhile while writing songs for her new album, Charlotte falls for Matt (Stephen Huszar) who is in town to build a house for the non-profit company, Operation Homefront, but do they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HORSE FOR CHRISTMAS (2015)

 

Taylor Sims (Jaimie Steck) and her father Billy (Mike Mayhall) have been estranged since her mother's death in the 9/11 attacks, and had been living with her Aunt Martha and Uncle Carson (Leticia Jimenez and Martin Kove) but following Carsons death Martha can’t cope with Taylor on her own so she sends her back to live with her father.

The gulf between them seems unbridgeable, he has remarried and Janice (Krista Kelley) resents her being there, but the three of them must work together to re-establish their relationship.

When the difficulty nearly consumes them all, Taylor bonds with a beautiful horse who suffered the tragic loss of her foal and aided by Rocky (Matthew Hendren) she learns that family, friendship, and faith are what’s important, and all the pieces of her life fall into place.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – RUNNING FOREVER (2015)

 

Taylor Sims (Jaimie Steck) and her father Billy (Mike Mayhall) have been estranged since her mother's death in the 9/11 attacks, and had been living with her Aunt Martha and Uncle Carson (Leticia Jimenez and Martin Kove) but following Carsons death Martha can’t cope with Taylor on her own so she sends her back to live with her father.

The gulf between them seems unbridgeable, he has remarried and Janice (Krista Kelley) resents her being there, but the three of them must work together to re-establish their relationship.

When the difficulty nearly consumes them all, Taylor bonds with a beautiful horse who suffered the tragic loss of her foal and aided by Rocky (Matthew Hendren) she learns that family, friendship, and faith are what’s important, and all the pieces of her life fall into place.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS WRITER (2025)

 

A Bestselling lesbian Christmas romance novelist Noel Robbins (Shelby Allison Brown) is paralyzed by writer's block after her mother's passing and being cheated on the previous Christmas, so she returns home to her hometown of Pinewood searching for inspiration.

Unexpectedly she finds it in the form of a charming owner of Pinewood Books, single mom Callie (Callie Bussell) and her daughter Pepper (June Tuss).

But Noel has become a city girl so choosing between the life she’s built in the city and life in a small town with her Grandma (Karen M. Chan) and a love she never saw coming.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS PITCH (2021)

 

William and Becca (Joseph Morales and Alexa Maria Huerta) are both marketing executives at a big-time company in Chicago, and are both vying for a promotion to the New York office.

Because they make a hash of their Christmas pitch their boss Mr. Kriss (Sean Blake) sends them to William's hometown of Kringle Lake to rediscover the spirit of Christmas.

While there they get to know each other, more personally and when they find out  William's brother's bakery is being forced to close its doors, they work together on a plan to save the bakery, and in doing so, they do find the Christmas spirit they were searching for, but they found more than that, they found each other.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A LITTLE WOMEN'S CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

In this contemporary retelling of Louisa May Alcott's 1868 classic novel, the March sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy (Jillian Murray, Jen Lilley, Laura Osnes and Julia Reilly) return home to celebrate Christmas in Alcott Grove.

The story focuses mainly on Jo, a highly successful children's author, struggling to break into the YA market and her publisher gives her two weeks to produce a new draft, so she's forced to combine the holiday with developing a new concept.

In the meantime, Fritz, one of their editors, is sent by the publisher to support Jo.

He goes to Alcott Grove but doesn’t declare who he is or why he's there, and instead gets close to Jo, and her sisters encourage her to spend time with Fritz.

But with them developing a romantic relationship, what will happen when the truth is revealed?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JOY & HOPE (2020)

 

Joy and Hope McGregor (Alix Kermes and Ashley Brinkman) run the Two Sisters Ranch in upstate New York with their dad, Frank (Stink Fisher) and longtime friend Gabe Corsetti (Cody Calafiore).

Amanda Parkington (Vivica A. Fox) of Parkington Publishing books her bestselling author Ethan Dulane (Andrew Rogers) into the horse ranch for an inspirational holiday away from his Manhattan luxury apartment.

Elder sister Hope and Gabe are best friends, and each thinks the other only sees a brother or sister, everyone else see’s the love between them.

Ethan, a stubborn single in regard to relationships, but he is drawn to Joy, as she inspires his next novel.

So, will Christmas romance blossom for one or both McGregor sisters?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SHOW (2023)

 

An amusing Christmas story anthology is a collection of amusing Christmas scenarios wrapped around poignant messages.

Such as a grieving husband who doesn’t want to celebrate Christmas, an Elf visiting a therapist because he’s feeling the pressure of the holiday, cookie obsessed neighbours, and relatives snowbound in another city.

A Very Special Christmas Show delivers stories for the season, starring Nigel Butler, Carl Wager, Bryan Da Silva, Melissa Lee Fulmer, Peyton Real, John Applegate, Gunnar Dalton, Nancy Dinsmore, Kelly Dinsmore, Nancy Butler, Bruce Butler, Joseph Vassallo, Matthew Easley, John Butler, Isaac Scott, Joe Monroe, John Steadman and Kyle S. Brown

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HORSE CALLED HOPE (2016)

 

Susan and Dave Evans (Stefannie Smith and Warren Watson) send their rebellious teen daughter Lizzy Evans (Taylor Lyons) to stay with her grandmother Mary (Francine Locke) on her horse ranch for Christmas.

Once she got over her initial anger she falls for her grandmother's pony, Hope, and becomes determined to help save the ranch from foreclosure with the help of friends and neighbours, especially James Mifflin (Allen Williamson).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS RANCH (2016)

 

Susan and Dave Evans (Stefannie Smith and Warren Watson) send their rebellious teen daughter Lizzy Evans (Taylor Lyons) to stay with her grandmother Mary (Francine Locke) on her horse ranch for Christmas.

Once she got over her initial anger she falls for her grandmother's pony, Hope, and becomes determined to help save the ranch from foreclosure with the help of friends and neighbours, especially James Mifflin (Allen Williamson).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE - HALLELUJAH (1993)

 A Christmas tale about a young Reverend, Oliver Crawford (Dennis Haysbert) from Cleveland, is appointed as the new Pastor of the Hallelujah Church in Washington, D.C., and travels to DC with his teenage son Nat Crawford (Deon Richmond).

He is warmly welcomed by his assistant Eunice Perry (Suzzanne Douglas) but not so much so by the self-appointed church committee, Elmira Pendleton, Minnie Thomkins, Deacon Conoly and Rev. Foy (Phyllis Bash, Rosanna Carter, Lex Monson and Ray Aranha) who never wanted him in the first place and have concerns about his age and single-parent status, and they give him two days to impress them.

In those two days he is challenged when he encounters a pregnant teen Kathrine Marie Campbell (Tracy Douglas) a homeless veteran Big Willie Thornton (Keith David), Mayor Turner (Phylicia Rashad) and the irascible neighbourhood atheist Old Man Taylor (James Earl Jones).

But its Christmas so it is the season for miracles.


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HALLELUJAH (1993)

 

A Christmas tale about a young Reverend, Oliver Crawford (Dennis Haysbert) from Cleveland, is appointed as the new Pastor of the Hallelujah Church in Washington, D.C., and travels to DC with his teenage son Nat Crawford (Deon Richmond).

He is warmly welcomed by his assistant, Eunice Perry (Suzzanne Douglas) but not so much so by the self-appointed church committee, Elmira Pendleton, Minnie Thomkins, Deacon Conoly and Rev. Foy (Phyllis Bash, Rosanna Carter, Lex Monson and Ray Aranha) who never wanted him in the first place and have concerns about his age and single-parent status, and they give him two days to impress them.

In those two days he is challenged when he encounters a pregnant teen Kathrine Marie Campbell (Tracy Douglas) a homeless veteran Big Willie Thornton (Keith David), Mayor Turner (Phylicia Rashad) and the irascible neighbourhood atheist Old Man Taylor (James Earl Jones).

But its Christmas so it is the season for miracles.


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (1993)

 

After 12-year-old Heather Lofton (Jennifer Love Hewitt) runs away from her Beverley Hills home in order to find her birthmother Susan Ferris (Terri Treas) in Denver, her money-grubbing adoptive mother Sybil Lofton (Anita Morris), who doesn’t want to lose control of her daughters millions, hires Private Eye Nick Frost (Howard Hesseman) to find her.

When he intercepts Heather at the bus station and they are driving back to LA, Sybil double crosses him and sets the FBI on Nick for the kidnapping of Little Miss Millions, but will Nick manage to turn the tables on her?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LITTLE MISS MILLIONS (1993)

After 12-year-old Heather Lofton (Jennifer Love Hewitt) runs away from her Beverley Hills home in order to find her birthmother Susan Ferris (Terri Treas) in Denver, her money-grubbing adoptive mother Sybil Lofton (Anita Morris), who doesn’t want to lose control of her daughters millions, hires Private Eye Nick Frost (Howard Hesseman) to find her.

When he intercepts Heather at the bus station and they are driving back to LA, Sybil double crosses him and sets the FBI on Nick for the kidnapping of Little Miss Millions, but will Nick manage to turn the tables on her?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MISTER SCROOGE TO SEE YOU (2013)

In this interesting spinoff from the classic Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” Ebenezer Scrooge (David Rupprecht), is sent on an adventurous quest by Jacob Marley (Rick Richter).

In 1844 Scrooge is in London and has just made Bob Cratchit (Ken T. Williams) a full partner and then finds himself on the other side of the Atlantic in New Britain, his mission is to show Timothy Cratchit VI (Ken T. Williams) the great, great, great grandson of Bob Cratchit, the error of his ways and he soon finds an ally in Belle Dickinson (Shannon Moore) who owns the Dinner Belle Diner, who knew him in high school.

So, will Scrooge succeed in his quest and be able to return to his own country and his own time having achieved his goal? 

Thursday, 4 June 2026

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1949)

 

Vincent Price narrates the tale about miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this 1949 retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit Scrooge (Taylor Holmes), revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.

The Spirits are played by Nelson Leigh (Past), George James (Present) and Jack Nestle (Future)

 

The other key characters and portrayed by Earl Lee (Marley), Constance Cavendish (Martha), Patrick Whyte, Queenie Leonard, Mike Miller, Karen Kester and Jill St. John (The Cratchit’s), Robert Hyatt (Tiny Tim), and Robert Clarke (Fred). 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CAROL (1949)

 

Vincent Price narrates the tale about miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this 1949 retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit Scrooge (Taylor Holmes), revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.

The Spirits are played by Nelson Leigh (Past), George James (Present) and Jack Nestle (Future)

 

The other key characters and portrayed by Earl Lee (Marley), Constance Cavendish (Martha), Patrick Whyte, Queenie Leonard, Mike Miller, Karen Kester and Jill St. John (The Cratchit’s), Robert Hyatt (Tiny Tim), and Robert Clarke (Fred).