Thursday, 15 February 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – KIRK FRANKLIN'S THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

Widowed civil rights lawyer Journee (Naturi Naughton) and her estranged daughter Nia (Lorea Turner) get caught in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve and when it gets too heavy to continue, they are forced to take refuge inside a church.

Inside they meet a handsome and gentle pastor, Adam (Luke James) and a music teacher (Kirk Franklin), along with stranded singer Simone Adam (Loren Lott).

And among the community minded congregation, the gospel music, singing and dancing Journee and Nia are motivated to reconnect and reconcile.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

Widowed civil rights lawyer Journee (Naturi Naughton) and her estranged daughter Nia (Lorea Turner) get caught in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve and when it gets too heavy to continue, they are forced to take refuge inside a church.

Inside they meet a handsome and gentle pastor, Adam (Luke James) and a music teacher (Kirk Franklin), along with stranded singer Simone Adam (Loren Lott).

And among the community minded congregation, the gospel music, singing and dancing Journee and Nia are motivated to reconnect and reconcile.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MR. CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

PR Consultant Zoe Deans (Sara Garcia) has branched out and started her own public relations business, however, she is struggling to attract clients to put her on the map.

While having coffee with her best friend Nic (Michael Lazarovitch) at his bakery and bemoaning her lack of progress Nic jokingly suggests she should represent a bachelor contestant in the upcoming Mr. Christmas contest.

At first, she is sceptical about the month-long annual pageant and its series of competitive holiday activities but then she has a lightbulb moment, having her client win would put her on the map, she just needs to find the right guy and when she spots book shop owner Sam (Blair Penner) she is sure she’s found him.

But has she also found more than she was looking for?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ME AND MR. CHRISTMAS (2023)

PR Consultant Zoe Deans (Sara Garcia) has branched out and started her own public relations business, however, she is struggling to attract clients to put her on the map.

While having coffee with her best friend Nic (Michael Lazarovitch) at his bakery and bemoaning her lack of progress Nic jokingly suggests she should represent a bachelor contestant in the upcoming Mr. Christmas contest.

At first, she is sceptical about the month-long annual pageant and its series of competitive holiday activities but then she has a lightbulb moment, having her client win would put her on the map, she just needs to find the right guy and when she spots book shop owner Sam (Blair Penner) she is sure she’s found him.

But has she also found more than she was looking for?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOOKING FOR MR CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

PR Consultant Zoe Deans (Sara Garcia) has branched out and started her own public relations business, however, she is struggling to attract clients to put her on the map.

While having coffee with her best friend Nic (Michael Lazarovitch) at his bakery and bemoaning her lack of progress Nic jokingly suggests she should represent a bachelor contestant in the upcoming Mr. Christmas contest.

At first, she is sceptical about the month-long annual pageant and its series of competitive holiday activities but then she has a lightbulb moment, having her client win would put her on the map, she just needs to find the right guy and when she spots book shop owner Sam (Blair Penner) she is sure she’s found him.

But has she also found more than she was looking for?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2019)

At a Bourbon Street lounge in New Orleans, in the run up to Christmas, Lindsey Scott (Marla Sokoloff) and Wes Bailey (Rob Mayes) are a reluctant duelling pianos/singing act, that reluctance being due to them being complete opposites.

Lindsey is classically trained and structured whereas Wes is more relaxed, and more Jazz oriented.

Their last gig of the year is cancelled at the last minute and as the money from that show was going to fund her flight home for Christmas, she is left deflated.

Her sister Allie (Whitney Palmer) is almost due with her first baby so her need to get home promptly was acute Wes on the other hand needed to get home to see his sick mother before she passed.

In passing conversation, it transpired that they were both from small hometowns just outside of Akron, so he suggests that they drive the fifteen-hour straight through journey together and she reluctantly agrees.

On the road trip, they meet one obstacle after another, detours, breakdowns, adverse weather, all of which threatened to prevent them from reaching their respective homes in time for Christmas.

But as a result, they have to spend more time together than they expected, and in the process, they truly to get to know and understand each other.

And somewhere along the way they fell in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SAPPY HOLIDAY (2022)

 

Sous chef Joy Johnson (Vanessa Sears) is due to spend Christmas with her boyfriend Gabe (Colton Royce) and his family.

Due to her work load he was travelling ahead of her and while he is packing, she accidentally discovers an engagement ring in his luggage.

After working the lunchtime shift at the restaurant, she sets off in her boyfriend’s car in a snowstorm and crashes into a snow drift and is rescued by a handsome maple farmer James Lewis (Jon McLaren).

The Lewis family invite her to stay at the farm while she gets her car repaired and as she spends time with James, she begins to doubt her future with Gabe and a whole new future opens up for her.