THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT CASTLE HART (2021)

 

After losing their waitressing jobs after Thanksgiving, sisters, Brooke and Margot Bennett (Lacey Chabert and Ali Hardiman) decide to take a holiday, using their life savings, and travel to Ireland to research their family history.

Very soon after arriving in Ireland they meet  Aiden Hart (Stuart Townsend), who they later learn is the Earl of Glaslough, and when they are invited to the historic Castle Hart Brooke is mistaken for a high-profile event planner, with the help of Margot.

As a result, she is persuaded to organise the lavish Christmas Gala at the Castle although she is uncomfortable with the deception Brooke goes along with it.

The Earls sister Siobhan (Aoife Spratt), who has been running the Estate, assigns Aiden to be her liaison for whatever she may need.

Inevitably while spending time together, Brooke and Aiden start to fall for each other, but will the fact she is not who she claims tarnish the budding relationship between them.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A PICTURE PERFECT CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Freelance fashion photographer Gaby Jones (Tatyana Ali) is keen on getting a staff position at a fashion magazine but is told by her editor Leila (Dina Meyer) that although her work is very professional, it lacks depth.

As a result, she is sent on a Christmas photography course at a retreat in the Rocky Mountains to try to make her work more emotional.

When she arrives at the cabin, she has booked she discovers its already occupied by wildlife photographer Sean (Henderson Wade) because the cabin has been double booked.

Because there are no other vacancies in the area, they are forced to share the cabin which is problematic as they are very different, in outlook, personality and methods, as she favours digital, and he prefers film.

Apart from being forced to share accommodation they are also grouped together during the course, however the more time they spend together the more they learn from each other, and a Christmas romance develops.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A PICTURE PERFECT HOLIDAY (2021)

 

Freelance fashion photographer Gaby Jones (Tatyana Ali) is keen on getting a staff position at a fashion magazine but is told by her editor Leila (Dina Meyer) that although her work is very professional, it lacks depth.

As a result, she is sent on a Christmas photography course at a retreat in the Rocky Mountains to try to make her work more emotional.

When she arrives at the cabin, she has booked she discovers its already occupied by wildlife photographer Sean (Henderson Wade) because the cabin has been double booked.

Because there are no other vacancies in the area, they are forced to share the cabin which is problematic as they are very different, in outlook, personality and methods, as she favours digital, and he prefers film.

Apart from being forced to share accommodation they are also grouped together during the course, however the more time they spend together the more they learn from each other, and a Christmas romance develops.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A SUGAR AND SPICE HOLIDAY (2020)

 

Suzy Yung (Jacky Lai) is a driven Los Angeles-based architect who isn’t used to failure, so her confidence is high when she is on the cusp of a big promotion.

However, as she prepares to return to Hampton Meadows, her small hometown in Maine, for Christmas she is told that the promotion will go to the architect who submits the winning design for a  major project, and submissions need to be in by the turn of the year.

On arrival in town, she is persuaded by her old classmate Billy Martin (Tony Giroux), with the help of family pressure, to join the town's team for the big annual Happy Valley gingerbread baking competition, which her Nema (Cindy Piper) had once won.

So, despite being time poor due to the project she was working on, she felt she wasn’t able to refuse.

The other members of the team are Caitlin Keyes (Aadila Dosani) and Stavros (Eli Gabay) but its spending time up close and personal with Billy that occupies most of her time and the friendship that they had shared since high school reveals its true nature.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – RANDOM ACTS OF CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Sydney Larkin (Erin Cahill) is a Chicago-based freelance journalist and single mother of eight-year-old Oliver (Jaden Oehr) who struggles with the work life balance even with the help of her mum Lauren (Jaclyn Smith).

She really wants a permanent position, but there is only one opening and she is up against a more cutthroat reporter, Andy Cooper (Hamza Fouad).

Her editor, Perry (Catherine Lough Haggquist), questions Sydney's choice of humanistic stories rather than hard hitting news, ratings grabbers.

Unperturbed Sydney pursues the story about the Secret Santa, who has been performing grand and sometimes elaborate gestures of Christmas cheer, each one  unannounced and the only clue to the perpetrator’s identity being the calling cards left at each event bearing the words "Secret Santa".

At one impromptu event she believes she has stumbled upon the man himself in the back of a van, though he ultimately identifies himself as another freelance reporter, Cole Howard (Kevin McGarry).

After some discussion they decide to join forces to try and decern any kind of pattern to the events, and over the festive period as each new act is revealed a closeness forms between them, but is there more to the story?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOVE AT THE CHRISTMAS CONTEST (2022)

 

Angie Waldron (Samantha Cope) is approaching her first Christmas without her mom and doesn't feel much like celebrating.

Even her favourite part of Christmas, the Christmas Eve tree lighting in the town square, fails to excite her.

However, after running into her high school sweetheart David Mitchell (Ross Jirgl) and his adorable daughter Gabby (Eliza Donaghy) at her Nursery and learning her mom had always dreamed of winning the annual tree decorating contest, she decides to enter and teams up with friend and employee Blair Bolin (Triana Browne).

If she were to  win the contest it would be the perfect way to honour her mom’s memory, but her recently widowed high school sweetheart, and his daughter also enter, which leads to her bonding with Gabby, over the shared loss of a mother, and old feelings being rekindled between her and David.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS LOVE TREE (2022)

 

Angie Waldron (Samantha Cope) is approaching her first Christmas without her mom and doesn't feel much like celebrating.

Even her favourite part of Christmas, the Christmas Eve tree lighting in the town square, fails to excite her.

However, after running into her high school sweetheart David Mitchell (Ross Jirgl) and his adorable daughter Gabby (Eliza Donaghy) at her Nursery and learning her mom had always dreamed of winning the annual tree decorating contest, she decides to enter and teams up with friend and employee Blair Bolin (Triana Browne).

If she were to  win the contest it would be the perfect way to honour her mom’s memory, but her recently widowed high school sweetheart, and his daughter also enter, which leads to her bonding with Gabby, over the shared loss of a mother, and old feelings being rekindled between her and David.