Sunday, 10 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PIZZA AND WHINE (2021)

Four cousins, Jennifer (Raffaela Capp), Natalyn (Natasha Capp), Millie (Ayla Kell) and Stephanie (Lily Gibson) are summoned home for their beloved grandmother’s memorial by their estranged grandfather, Carlo (Robert Davi).

Having been excited to celebrate Christmas with each other the cousins are unhappy to be around their strict grandfather for the holidays but decide to make the most of the situation and throw a Christmas celebration their grandmother would have enjoyed, with a little pizza and wine.

But issues soon come to the surface and threaten to get in the way but eventually the girls remember family comes first and they celebrate with their grandfather at their side. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – USS CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Newspaper reporter Maddie Contino (Jen Lilley) embarks on a US Navy Tiger Cruise also known as the USS Christmas, during the festive season, where she meets handsome naval officer Lt. Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan).

Being a serious career officer, he is less than thrilled to be assigned to assist her in researching a story, but his attitude softens after stumbling on a romantic mystery in the ship's archive regarding an old love story and while doing so begin a love story of their own.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN MONTANA (2019)

 

Four years after the death of her husband, Los Angeles based financial advisor Sara Bradley (Kellie Martin) still finds Christmas a very difficult time of the year and her and her daughter Chloe (Ava Preston) avoid the difficult conversation on Christmas and Rob’s death.

This year however she is given a last-minute weeklong assignment to Bigfork, Montana to help an important client, Travis Carson (Colin Ferguson), save his ranch, and she must take a reluctant Chloe on the business trip with her.

While there she explores every avenue to save the ranch, as her love of Christmas is rekindled, her relationship with her daughter repaired and her heart is opened to a new love. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TWINKLE ALL THE WAY (2019)

 

In the town of Redbird Falls the elementary school attended by seven-year-old Mary Clark (Isla Elizabeth Grimes) and six-year-old Ruthie Harrison (Cleary Herzlinger) are preparing for the upcoming Christmas pageant, and their respective parents Cadence Clark (Sarah Drew) and Henry Harrison (Ryan McPartlin) are paired as volunteers on set building and painting backdrops.

Cadence is a Wedding Planner whose motto is "organize and prioritize" whereas Henry is more of an intuitive person and initially they view each other with disdain.

But their daughters become inseparable friends and they grow closer themselves as they strive towards their goals.

The School pageant first and foremost, but it’s when helping with each other’s own business projects, Cadences Wedding Planning for former college friend, Avery Abbott (Nicki Whitely) who wants a perfect magical Christmas wedding, and the Christmas Eve Party for socialite Sue Sutton (Lanette Ware) being organised by Henry’s Christmas design company, when the bond is forged and two families become one.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT THE CHATEAUX (2020)

 

Margot Hammond (Merritt Patterson), is a world famous pianist who has lost her passion for playing and she returns to her hometown to celebrate Christmas with her family at the beautiful Chateau Newhaus.

At the Chateau she is reunited with her ex-boyfriend Jackson Lewis (Luke Macfarlane), who is planning a Christmas concert at the Chateau.

Soon the former bandmates have rekindled their love as they work in harmony to bring the special live music event to remember for friends, family, and the guests.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON YOUR TOES (2021)

Ballet teacher Olivia (AnnaLynne McCord) is struggling to keep her studio afloat as Christmas approaches and plans to close after the Holidays and leave town for pastures new in the New Year.

Before then she has the Christmas production to put on and casts Lily (Bianca Lawrence) in the starring role in The Nutcracker.

But after a few chance meetings with Lily's handsome firefighter father Michael Foster (Colin Lawrence) she soon finds her focus shifting from dance to romance.

For single widow Michael, dipping his toe back into the dating pool after his first romantic connection with a woman since his wife passed away was problematic enough, and even more so with his beautiful daughter's ballet teacher.

So would Lily’s struggle to adjust to his father finding love again extinguish loves embers before they have properly ignited or will Christmas magic work its will. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN ANGEL FALLS (2017)

 

Gabby Messinger (Rachel Boston) is a guardian angel and is meant to gently guide those who she is sent to help but she can’t stop herself from getting too involved in people's lives and intervening directly.

So, for her final mission Michael D'Angelo (Beau Bridges) sends her to Angel Falls on a very special assignment which gives her slightly broader scope for a mission during the Christmas season, to revive the town's forgotten Christmas spirit.

What she finds when she arrives is that each person she meets has lost his or her Christmas spirit, except one, Jack Avery (Paul Greene), Chief of the volunteer Fire Department and owner of the local hardware store.

Gabby is immediately drawn to him, and he unknowingly helps her as she discovers some of the many personal stories which explained how each of them lost their Spirit.

Through it all she finds a way to restore the Christmas Spirit of Angel Falls and unexpectedly finds love in the process and doesn’t want to leave.