Thursday, 15 February 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MAPLE VALLEY CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Erica and Heidi Holden (Peyton List and Ella Cannon) become the fourth-generation owners of their family's business, Maple Valley Farm, the largest maple farm in Montana, after their mother Ina (Frances Flanagan) announces her decision to retire just before Christmas.

One of the first things they want to do is purchase the neighbouring Fernandez farm but that may be more difficult than they expect.

Ina’s announcement coincides with the arrival in the area of Aaron Davenport (Andrew W. Walker) and there is an immediate attraction, but then she finds out that he is a Real Estate Developer who is there to bid on the Fernandez land.

Though he is reluctant once he finds out that Erica wants it, but his father is insistent that he buys it, whatever the cost.

The sisters also have to overcome the difficulties of their different visions for the farm.

So, the path to a happy future is paved with difficulties, but will the journey lead to happiness?

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AU PAIR (2021)

 

Kaley (Kayla Wallace) is a part time social media wiz and full-time Au Pair to two lovely girls, Lily and Rose (Juliette Hawk and Cassidy Slingsby), is planning to return to her home in Ohio.

However, while the girls’ parents, Margaret, and Miles (Meghan K. Lees and Brendan J. Rowland) are out of town for a party a snowstorm hits and closes the airport and strands them in New York.

Despite the fact that their Uncle Ethan (Jeremy Guilbaut) arrives early from London for Christmas, as they didn’t really know him Kaley is reluctant to leave the girls in his charge so delays her trip home.

But while she ensures the girls miss none of their usual Christmas activities, she supervises Ethan as they both learn about each other  and the magic of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOWED IN FOR CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Kaley (Kayla Wallace) is a part time social media wiz and full-time Au Pair to two lovely girls, Lily and Rose (Juliette Hawk and Cassidy Slingsby), is planning to return to her home in Ohio.

However, while the girls’ parents, Margaret, and Miles (Meghan K. Lees and Brendan J. Rowland) are out of town for a party a snowstorm hits and closes the airport and strands them in New York.

Despite the fact that their Uncle Ethan (Jeremy Guilbaut) arrives early from London for Christmas, as they didn’t really know him Kaley is reluctant to leave the girls in his charge so delays her trip home.

But while she ensures the girls miss none of their usual Christmas activities, she supervises Ethan as they both learn about each other  and the magic of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A SUGAR AND SPICE CHRISTMAS (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 – A RICH CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Wealthy Marshall Rich (Bill Bellamy) punishes his selfish and spoiled socialite daughter, Valerie Rich (Tyler Abron) for stealing from him to fund a trip to Aspen.

After making her choose her own punishment, between 30 days in prison or 30 days working at the Rich Haven family homeless centre, she reluctantly chooses the latter.

She is under the impression that her father will come for her at any minute once she has learned her lesson but as soon as she accepts that she’s there for the duration she knuckles down and gets to know the people who live there.

And when the news breaks that the centre is to be sold, she galvanizes support to save the site from redevelopment.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS DÉJÀ VU (2021)

 

Kandi (Amber Riley) was in a girl group in high school but dropped out when her father died during a performance on Christmas Eve.

Ten years later and she is a waitress while Tracy Brittany and April (Tanya Chisholm, Chantal Maurice, and Candice Van Beauty) are a successful group.

But when the “Glow Girls” arrive at the restaurant a fight breaks out and Kandi is fired.

She is prevented from walking in front of a train by The Angel Gabriel (Ric Reitz) who then follows her to a bar where she gets drunk.

She has turned her back on God and hates Christmas and her life, so she wishes she had the life she dreamed of sh he grants her wish.

But she finds that she is just as unhappy in the life she wanted as she is in her own, but it takes a while for her to realise that its her that has to change.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SOUL SANTA (2021)

 

After mob collector Nicky (David Mann) loses the money, he has collected in a desperate gamble to raise the money for his dream business, he has to go on the run.

He sets off in his beat-up car bound for Canada, but the car breaks down, so he is forced to take the bus to Connecticut where his estranged wife Liz (Tamela J. Mann) lives with their daughter Nevaeh (Brooke Monroe Conaway).

After confessing to her Liz agrees to let him hide out in her house and gets him a job as a shopping mall Santa at the mall where she works.

 

While the mob searches high and low for him, he tries hard to build up interest in Santa Village at the struggling mall, combats commercial sabotage and tries to win back his wife.