Monday, 25 November 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – AN ECLECTIC CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

LA based Fitness Coach Kim (Hannah Galway) always spends Christmas with her Aunt Freida (Jill Frappier) who owns a Vintage store “Little Treasures Eclectic” in Forestbrook, but shortly before they were to get together her Aunt dies.

At the will reading Kim has been left with definitive tasks to be performed, in the form of riddles, which when solved reveal a gift from the shops inventory and the recipient, these tasks must be completed before the estate can be settled.

In addition as per her Aunts instructions she has to work closely with local realtor Scott Collins (Jeremy Walmsley) who just happens to be Kim’s former sweetheart.

As they work together on the riddles old feelings are reawakened, old secrets uncovered and revelations of what’s most important.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MISTLETOE & MOLLY (2021)

Molly Bishop (Eden Broda) could have taken the easy option and got a senior position in her fathers (Howard Hoover) company but instead chose to go her own way, as a result she is struggling as a waitress while looking for an entry level job in marketing and her car is in the garage.

One of the regulars at the cafe, Aiden Ford (Zach Smadu), has a soft spot for her and wants to help her out but Molly is too proud to accept help, and gets an interview with Mike Ward (Shane Marriott).

Cameron (Steffi DiDomenicantonio), her friend at the cafe, thinks she should accept Aiden’s help, but she is adamant.

Aiden doesn’t give up though and they get to know each other, but to complicate things, Aiden and Mike are best friends.

Then friendship turns to love so should he intervene or let Molly get the job on her own merits?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – AN ITALIAN CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Natalie Rogers (Anni Krueger) learns that her cousin Olivia (Nia Vardalos) has to cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant because bad weather has her grounded in Rome.

Natalie’s heart goes out to Olivia and all of the guests who were planning on attending so, despite having no experience in such things she decides she will open it for her.

Luckily, an attractive if pessimistic chef named Stefano Grimaldi (Gilles Marini) is on hand.

Although he thinks getting ready to open with only three days until Christmas is impossible, but her positivity overrules his pessimism and with the help of two young students BeeBee Jordan and Tyler (Emma Myers and Andrew Brodeur) they overcome all the obstacles.

And of course, there is love on the menu.

Tuesday, 12 November 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON THE RANCH (2024)

 

Christina Campbell (Jade Harlow) is a talk show relationship expert, with her own show “Heart of Chicago” and a whole raft of her own romantic hang-ups, who is good at advising other people but can’t sort her own love life out.

While driving through Ohio to New York to advance her career she has a near miss with a horse in Cedar Grove and crashes her car.

With the Inn fully booked, the owner of the horse, widower Corey Henderson (Houston Rhines) and his daughter Heather (Saige Chaseley) insist she stays at their ranch while her car is being repaired.

While stranded in Ohio and enjoying the hospitality of the charming rancher she is reminded that love is always worth the risk.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS MARKET (2021)

 

Hawkins Bay Mayor Alexandra Foster (Brooke Nevin) has a problem in the lead-up to Christmas, due to essential repairs on the bridge, with a detour in place and a road closure starving Main Street of trade at what should have been the busiest time of the year.

The fear was that some businesses might not even survive into the new year if she didn’t do something, so she decided to hold a Christmas market away from Main Street, but the only suitable place was the old Hawkins Mill site.

The only problem was a feud between the Foster and Hawkins families, so she needs to approach the reclusive Darcy Hawkins (Corey Sevier).

Darcy agrees and while spending time together preparation for the market Alex and Darcy start to fall for each other and a romance between them could end the family feud for ever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – IT TAKES A CHRISTMAS VILLAGE (2021)

 

Hawkins Bay Mayor Alexandra Foster (Brooke Nevin) has a problem in the lead-up to Christmas, due to essential repairs on the bridge, with a detour in place and a road closure starving Main Street of trade at what should have been the busiest time of the year.

The fear was that some businesses might not even survive into the new year if she didn’t do something, so she decided to hold a Christmas market away from Main Street, but the only suitable place was the old Hawkins Mill site.

The only problem was a feud between the Foster and Hawkins families, so she needs to approach the reclusive Darcy Hawkins (Corey Sevier).

Darcy agrees and while spending time together preparation for the market Alex and Darcy start to fall for each other and a romance between them could end the family feud for ever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SAVING CHRISTMAS (2013)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) is the new general manager at the bank in the winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah.

He moves there with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) fifteen and ten years old respectively.

Kassie is afraid she won't make friends, but as music and singing are her passions, partly because it’s one of the ways she stays connected to the memory of her musician mother, so she joins the church choir, which also makes her friends.

At the same time she finds an injured and abandoned German Shepard, and she and Esther nurse him back to health and name him Scoot.

It turns out that Scoot was a K9 who was injured on duty and left for dead by two crooks who he recognizes in Heber Valley working at the bank and it’s up to Scoot and the children to catch the crooks, recover the money and save Christmas.