Thursday, 11 August 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ON THE 12TH DATE OF CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

In Chicago Jennifer Holloway (Mallory Jansen) and Aidan Walsh (Tyler Hynes) are both game creators and are both vying for a promotion, and although they are seemingly incompatible, they are teamed up to create a game to promote the Devonshire Hotel chain.

What they come up with is a romantic, city-wide scavenger hunt themed for the “12 Days of Christmas.”

But as Jennifer and Aidan work their way around the city composing all the clues, they find out that the game and the promotion are less important than the romance they have found along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS TO CHERISH (2019)

 

Darcy Archer (Ali Liebert) and Aiden Harris (Peter Porte) prepare to celebrate their second Christmas together, with Darcy running Henley's and Aiden is a crafts teacher.

But all is not plain sailing as they have an unexpected guest staying with Mrs. Henley (Tina Lifford) in the shape of Marcus (Dominic Mariche) who bonds with Bailey the dog, for obvious reasons and with Aiden through a model village project he’s working on as a gift for Darcy.

But the overwhelming topic on everyone’s minds is the beloved community centre, which is threatened with closure as the rich owner David Pearce (Ben Wilkinson) plans to sell it for a lucrative development.

But as the community all have memories tied to the centre everyone unites to seek historical protection and give everyone an unforgettable holiday.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GHOSTING (2019)

 

As she is driving home, Jess (Aisha Dee) is preoccupied with texting following the best first date of her life with Ben (Kendrick Sampson) and is killed in a car crash and after the accident she wakes up as a ghost.

She is unable to move on, so she assumes she has to settle unfinished business first.

She is drawn to her best friend Kara (Kimiko Glenn) and is surprised that she can see her so they embark on an hilarious, bittersweet final adventure to determine what it is that’s keeping her earthbound so that Jess can ascend to the afterlife.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS PUDDING

 

I love Christmas pudding

But it doesn’t return the favour

I wish you could get Gaviscon

In brandy butter flavour

THE NIGHT IS CLEAR

 

The night is clear

Here! Here!

Can’t you hear?

It’s the reindeer

Santa is near

Let us cheer,

Open a Beer

Christmas is here


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SKIPPING CHRISTMAS (2004)

 

A fun Christmas movie in which Luther Krank (Tim Allen) is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas anyway but when only daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) leaves and goes to another country he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation cruise with his wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) instead.

All they have to do then is resist the pressure from their neighbours to participate in the house decorating contest and survive all the other seasonal nonsense.

But when their daughter calls on Christmas Eve and says she’s coming home for Christmas, it causes an uproar in the Krank household as the family scrambles to create a perfect Christmas from scratch in 12 hours will hilariously effect when the pesky neighbours suddenly become their allies.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS CUPID'S ARROW (2018)

At Thanksgiving dinner with her family, single College Literature Professor Holly, (Elisabeth Harnois) announces that she has had an article published in a prestigious journal but is soon overshadowed by the revelation that her married sister is pregnant.

So, she is forced to evaluate her life and is persuaded by her best friend Emily (Sasha Jackson) to sign up to a dating app.

After her first three dates didn’t go well, she was ready to throw in the towel rather than risk meeting another “frog” but then she is paired with a “prince” and arranges a date with Lawyer Josh (Chad Michael Collins) who is gorgeous, but she thinks he is all good looks and no substance.

Josh, being a serial womaniser doesn’t want to let a beautiful woman slip through his fingers, so he enlists the help of college roommate David (Jonathan Togo) who is also a Literature Professor at the same college as Holly.

Using the promise of an interview for a lucrative job he persuades David to write love poems to Holly on his behalf in true Cyrano De Bergerac style.

What widowed single parent David is unaware of is that the girl in question is the object of his own affections.