Sunday, 27 October 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LADIES OF THE '80S: A DIVAS CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

Five internationally known 1980’s soap opera icons, Lily Marlowe (Loni Anderson) Margaux Roberts (Morgan Fairchild) Lauren Ewing (Linda Gray) Dana Cunningham (Donna Mills) and Juliette Matheson (Nicollette Sheridan) reunite to share the spotlight and shoot a live final Christmas Special of their long-running soap opera.

However the moment the Ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the whole production apart.

It’s up to producer, Alex (Travis Burns) and director, Nell (Taylor Ann Thompson), who are old college friends, to do their best to keep things on the rails while also settling unfinished business between them.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOLIDAY EXCHANGE (2024)

 

Successful Los Angeles based businessman Wilde Williams (Taylor Frey) has just sold his company but with Christmas fast approaching he is very low fallowing a breakup, so he decides on drastic action.

He goes on an LGBTQ+ app and swaps houses with handsome Oliver Whitlock (Rick Cosnett) in charming snowy town of Brilfax, in an effort to escape their holiday blues.

The two men end up meeting respective locals in the forms of Julius and Henry (Samer Salem and Daniel Garcia who lift their blues and spice up their Christmases.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE 2 (2023)

 

For their first Christmas, young student couple Hayley (Cora Kirk) and James (Asa Butterfield) were supposed to be spending Christmas apart with their respective families however they both made the same mad split-second decision to swap trains in order to surprise each other, completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.

For the next Christmas Lord Humphrey (Alex Jennings) invites the family to Christmas in a luxury ski resort in the Austrian Alps, but due to a transport mix up they manage to swap Christmases again.

So will their relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or is it a mix up to far?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A TWIST OF CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

Abby Hewitt (Vanessa Lachey) is a single parent who has located the “must have” toy that her son Elliot (Christian Convery) wants for Christmas and it’s on reserve at a department store.

While she is at the store, she has an encounter with lawyer Ryan Cooper (Brendon Zub) who is there to pick up a toy for his daughter Jasmine (Lina Renna).  

Unfortunately in the frenzy they accidentally mix up the toys at a crowded department store.

With Christmas plans in ruins the only way to get things back on track is to help each other salvage their holiday plans and of course they fall for each other along the way.

Thursday, 17 October 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOST CHRISTMAS (2011)

 

Goose (Larry Mills) looks after his dementia suffering grandma on a Manchester housing estate, after being orphaned the previous Christmas, and to make ends meet he sells stolen goods to soft-hearted fence Frank (Jason Flemyng).

On Christmas Eve he meets enigmatic stranger Anthony (Eddie Izzard), with special  powers as he is able to tell what people have lost by simply touching them.

Such as Frank’s first edition of Oscar Wilde, and the wife of retired Doctor Clarence (Geoffrey Palmer).

But is there more to Anthony, could he even be capable of changing everybody’s life for the better?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DECEMBER BRIDE (2016)

 

Layla O'Reilly (Jessica Lowndes) is an aspiring interior designer who has dreamed all her life of being a December Bride, but then her cousin Jessica (Pauline Egan) invites her to her Christmas Wedding to Layla's ex-fiancé.

Despite the fact that Seth Murphy (Daniel Lissing) was responsible for introducing the bride and groom, she begrudgingly accepts his offer to be her date to the wedding, as going to the wedding alone would have intensified the humiliation.

However he gets carried away at the reception and announces they're engaged, and in the spur of the moment she decided to go along with it.

But as the faux couple spend more time together, pretence turns to something very real.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SINCERELY TRULY CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

After losing her job Christina Martino (Paula Brancati) makes a wish on a magical Christmas ornament and acquires the temporary, uncontrollable gift which forces people to express their Christmas wishes after saying “I want”.

Then she meets slick talking realtor Robert Riley (Jake Epstein) and his son Oliver (Phoenix Ellis), and Christina and Robert embark on a mission to sign up singer songwriter of a classic Christmas hit, Dan Copren (Howard Hoover) to a fund-raising live stream in an effort to get her job back.