Sunday, 31 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STARRING CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Heroine of a trio of superhero movies, Olivia O'Hara (Tori Anderson) is dumped before Christmas by her rock star boyfriend Ryan Wrangler (Matthew James Dowden).

So, to avoid the reporters and paparazzi she secretly returns home to small town Happy Valley, Colorado, unannounced to spend Christmas with her family.

All she wants to do is watch Christmas Movies, eat cookies and avoid the press, but instead she has to go to the store for condensed milk which is where she runs into an old high school classmate, Casey Rawlins, (Victor Zinck Jr.) who now teaches English at Eagle Heights, their old school.

So instead of being a couch potato for the holidays she finds herself directing the Christmas Eve school show.

As a result, she spends the holiday busily directing the show, avoiding the paps and falling in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MYSTERY CHRISTMAS MIRACLES (2019)

 

Hope (Jeni Ross) was abandoned as a baby and left in a diner booth and was discovered by waitress Louise Jensen (Jodi Larratt) who adopted her.

Hope has a very happy life with her adoptive mum until the time Louise is suddenly taken ill and passes away.

The day after the funeral she returns home to the apartment to find it has been burgled.

As the Police Officer is taking her statement Hope is feeling at her absolute lowest and then she discovered a Christmas Jar left anonymously in the hallway outside her apartment filled with coins and bank notes.

As a reporter for an online publication, she is tasked with writing a feelgood holiday piece, so she decides to investigate the "Christmas Jars" which have become a widespread phenomenon and tries to uncover the secret benefactors.

Using her journalistic skills, she tracks down the original act of kindness to the Maxwell family who have a business restoring used furniture.

Posing as a customer she manages to worm her way into the bossom of a loving family, but she gets in too deep and falls in love with Ian Maxwell (Markian Tarasiuk) but when the truth gets out that love will be put at risk.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CARDS (2019)

 

Amalie Hess (Ashley Newbrough) is a magazine feature writer dolling out relationship guidance but is sadly lacking herself in the relationship and romance department.

So, when she receives a Christmas card containing an unsigned love letter from someone she was at school with, full of romance and longing, the envelope bearing the postmark from her hometown, she starts to try and find out who the sender was.

So, to tackle the puzzle of who sent it head on she decided to head home and possibly discover the author.

The first person she meets is her old school friend Ian McCallister (Tilky Jones) and his daughter Marty (Izzy Herbert), so would they shed any light?

Or will she need to look further afield to find true love.

Friday, 29 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS RIVALRY (2021)

After her landslide loss in her political campaign for a City Council seat Julia (Jacky Lai) returns to her hometown of North Falls to lick her wounds and drown her sorrows in eggnog.

Almost the moment she returns she runs into her old high school rival, and crush, Parker (Jake Epstein) who unknown to her still carried a torch for her.

At the tree lighting ceremony North Falls Mayor Rodriguez (Stephanie Herrera) resigns, so an emergency election is called for Christmas Eve.

When Julie discovers Parker is running opposed, she just can’t help herself and throws her hat in the ring as well on a whim.

As their campaigns get under way, they spend more time flirting than they do canvassing for votes.

By the time their political race comes to a head, Julia and Parker had discovered winning the election wasn’t everything, they had won a much greater prize. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS CEO (2021)

 

Childhood friends and co-founders of CJ Toys, Christmas Winnacker (Marisol Nichols) and Joe Sullivan (Paul Greene) part company after a disagreement over the direction the company was going in and they didn’t speak again, until….

Seven years later Chris plans to merge with Arlo Toys and she would be CEO of the of the new company.

However, in order for the deal to go through she needs Joe to sign off on the deal, which means she needs to find him and speak with him.

If that wasn’t enough to deal with, she also had to look after her teenage niece Emma (Veronica Marin-Estrada) while her parents were away.

Chris tracks Joe down to the Antiques and Collectibles store owned by his father Tucker (James M Jenkinson) where Joe was working in the Toy Hospital.

Joe agrees to sign the papers in return for Chris volunteering to help with his fundraiser, the Christmas Toy Drive Jamboree, culminating on December 23rd.

During that time Chris, rediscovers the spirit that made them start CJ Toys together in the first place and she begins to see Joe in a different light as she recalls unspoken feeling she had since childhood which she is unsure what to do with and then he tells her he has secretly been in love with her since they were ten.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CANDY CANE CANDIDATE (2021)

 

After her landslide loss in her political campaign for a City Council seat Julia (Jacky Lai) returns to her hometown of North Falls to lick her wounds and drown her sorrows in eggnog.

Almost the moment she returns she runs into her old high school rival, and crush, Parker (Jake Epstein) who unknown to her still carried a torch for her.

At the tree lighting ceremony North Falls Mayor Rodriguez (Stephanie Herrera) resigns, so an emergency election is called for Christmas Eve.

When Julie discovers Parker is running opposed, she just can’t help herself and throws her hat in the ring as well on a whim.

As their campaigns get under way, they spend more time flirting than they do canvassing for votes.

By the time their political race comes to a head, Julia and Parker had discovered winning the election wasn’t everything, they had won a much greater prize.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS TOY MAKER (2021)

 

Childhood friends and co-founders of CJ Toys, Christmas Winnacker (Marisol Nichols) and Joe Sullivan (Paul Greene) part company after a disagreement over the direction the company was going in and they didn’t speak again, until….

Seven years later Chris plans to merge with Arlo Toys and she would be CEO of the of the new company.

However, in order for the deal to go through she needs Joe to sign off on the deal, which means she needs to find him and speak with him.

If that wasn’t enough to deal with, she also had to look after her teenage niece Emma (Veronica Marin-Estrada) while her parents were away.

Chris tracks Joe down to the Antiques and Collectibles store owned by his father Tucker (James M Jenkinson) where Joe was working in the Toy Hospital.

Joe agrees to sign the papers in return for Chris volunteering to help with his fundraiser, the Christmas Toy Drive Jamboree, culminating on December 23rd.

During that time Chris, rediscovers the spirit that made them start CJ Toys together in the first place and she begins to see Joe in a different light as she recalls unspoken feeling she had since childhood which she is unsure what to do with and then he tells her he has secretly been in love with her since they were ten.