THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOOKING FOR HER (2022)

 

After three years of not going home for Christmas because of her sexuality Taylor (Olivia Buckle)  has been invited home for the holidays and her family is finally ready to meet her girlfriend Jess (Allie Spetalnick) the only problem is that Jess isn't her girlfriend anymore.

So Taylor has to hold open auditions for someone to play the part of her girlfriend for the holidays.

After a succession of unsuitable candidates an out of work actress and unemployed barista Olive (Alexandra Swarens) get the gig after responding to a personal ad and they drive to meet Taylor’s parents Marge and Frank (Michelle Hakala Wolf and Robert Artz).

But before the year is out, they aren’t pretending anymore.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BERNARD AND THE GENIE (2023)

 

After he is fired by his greedy boss Mr Flaxman (Alan Cumming) mild-mannered art-buyer Bernard Bottle (Paapa Essiedu) is dumped by his wife Julie (Denée Benton) after he misses their daughter Eve’s (Jordyn McIntosh) birthday.

He had bought an antique box for Eve and when he begins to clean the dust of the box, he discovers a Genie, Flora (Melissa McCarthy) inside.

Bernard introduces her to the modern world and Flora grants him unlimited wishes.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GENIE (2023)

 

After he is fired by his greedy boss Mr Flaxman (Alan Cumming) mild-mannered art-buyer Bernard Bottle (Paapa Essiedu) is dumped by his wife Julie (Denée Benton) after he misses their daughter Eve’s (Jordyn McIntosh) birthday.

He had bought an antique box for Eve and when he begins to clean the dust of the box, he discovers a Genie, Flora (Melissa McCarthy) inside.

Bernard introduces her to the modern world and Flora grants him unlimited wishes.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE AGE OF TONY (2021)

 

Successful nightclub manager and local celebrity Anthony “Tony” Towers (Michael Sheen) is engaged to his girlfriend Sue Taylor (Nathalie Emmanuel) and on Christmas Eve 1985 they are travelling from London to Nottingham for a family reunion with his brother Roger (Cary Elwes).

However when he steps into the next carriage towards the engine, he finds himself in 1995 and finds that in the future he has lost everything.

So it seems that he is transported 10 years forwards or backwards depending on the direction he moves in.

It also becomes clear that he can also change the past or the future of anyone aboard the train.

But will he make things better or worse?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST TRAIN TO CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Successful nightclub manager and local celebrity Anthony “Tony” Towers (Michael Sheen) is engaged to his girlfriend Sue Taylor (Nathalie Emmanuel) and on Christmas Eve 1985 they are travelling from London to Nottingham for a family reunion with his brother Roger (Cary Elwes).

However when he steps into the next carriage towards the engine, he finds himself in 1995 and finds that in the future he has lost everything.

So it seems that he is transported 10 years forwards or backwards depending on the direction he moves in.

It also becomes clear that he can also change the past or the future of anyone aboard the train.

But will he make things better or worse?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NANTUCKET NOEL (2021)

 

During the Seaside Noel celebrations Christina Antonioni (Sarah Power) finds out about a developer Oscar Bittlesman (Bruce Dawson) planning to tear down the historic wharf that’s home to her toy store in Nantucket.

In the week before Christmas she catches a girl, Wink Bittlesman (Payton Lepinski), stealing a toy mermaid while her commercial realtor father Andy Bittlesman (Trevor Donovan) is distracted on the phone.

As a result of her acting out Andy agrees to let Wink help out at the toy store to make up for the shoplifting and he and Christina connected, however that may not be enough once she finds out that it’s his father behind the redevelopment.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM (2021)

 

A romantic comedy about a New York socialite Emmy (Poppy Montgomery) who fakes her identity in order to get her book published and all is going well until her publisher Ellison London (Jeanette Cronin) and her son Jack London (Darren McMullen) want to visit their “Australian” author in her own home.

So Emmy is forced to rush back to Australia to her dead mother's farm and start living her fake life.

But there is a surprise ending that even she couldn’t have written.