Friday, 13 December 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOPE STREET HOLIDAY (2023)

 

Galia Garcia (Isadora Ortega) is a successful Afro Latina Los Angeles attorney and just before Christmas her boyfriend Johnny (Ron G) breaks up with her, so she returns to her small hometown for the holidays.

With the help of her 3 crazy aunties Whitney, Glenda and Charlene Garcia (Rosemary Dominguez, Adargiza De Los Santos and Jackie Nova) and her 5-year-old orphaned Goddaughter Southerly (Seren Merrill) she is reminded of the true meaning of family.

She is also able to puts old ghosts to rest, heal from her past traumas and fall in love all over again with her old school friend Terrence (Rodney Rikai).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LETTERS TO SANTA (2023)

 

Married couple Rebecca and Enrique (Katie Leclerc and Rafael de la Fuente) are involved in couples therapy after separating but are still co-parenting with their children Sam and Izzy (Kellen Raffaelo and Taylor Pezza) taking turns staying with mum and Dad.

When the children are taken to see Santa Claus (Bates Wilder) at the Mall, they are given a golden pen to write down their wishes with which they are told is magic.

So one evening they write a letter to Santa, and it comes true, so they write again and again, at, and they also come true.

What they don’t realise is that their grandma Camilla (Laura Cerón) and their Aunt Maria (Deanna Tarraza) are intercepting the letters.

But in the end all the children really want is for their parents to get back together so they can be a family again.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MAGIC (2023)

 

Introverted Marine biologist, Juniper Jones (Jessy Schram), is about to travel from Amsterdam to South Africa via Finland but changes her plans at the last minute to help out her best friend Candice Adams (Patti Murin) at the Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut, to oversee the imminent release of a recuperated harbour seal.

Her stay in town is complicated because Candice’s brother, Sawyer (Chandler Massey)

Is still on the scene with whom she had an intense couple of days together ten years earlier but afterwards due to miscommunication they both thought they’d been ghosted, and they blamed each other.

But their reunion was cordially cautious and as they spend time together, they must come to terms with what happened in the past and overcome their differences to revive their relationship.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MYSTIC CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

Introverted Marine biologist, Juniper Jones (Jessy Schram), is about to travel from Amsterdam to South Africa via Finland but changes her plans at the last minute to help out her best friend Candice Adams (Patti Murin) at the Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut, to oversee the imminent release of a recuperated harbour seal.

Her stay in town is complicated because Candice’s brother, Sawyer (Chandler Massey)

Is still on the scene with whom she had an intense couple of days together ten years earlier but afterwards due to miscommunication they both thought they’d been ghosted, and they blamed each other.

But their reunion was cordially cautious and as they spend time together, they must come to terms with what happened in the past and overcome their differences to revive their relationship.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE IN BETHLEHEM (2023)

 

Single Lawyer Mary Ann (Laura Vandervoort) is unable to conceive so decided that she would adopt a baby and raise the child alone, but she had been waiting so long she was beginning to despair, so she prayed to God to fulfil her dream.

Just before Christmas her prayer was answered and she was told there was a baby girl for her in Bethlehem, PA.

After picking up Natalie from the hospital she is forced to stay in town due to a ferocious snowstorm.

She tries the nearest Inn, but they are full and after the Innkeeper Frankie (Amy Groening) phones around and finds that everywhere is full she suggests that Mary Ann and the baby stay with her brother Joe (Benjamin Ayres) and as it’s her only choice she accepts.

However while she is stranded in town, she becomes woven into the fabric of Joe’s family and friends and life has new possibilities.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE IN BETHLEHEM, PA. (2023)

 

Single Lawyer Mary Ann (Laura Vandervoort) is unable to conceive so decided that she would adopt a baby and raise the child alone, but she had been waiting so long she was beginning to despair, so she prayed to God to fulfil her dream.

Just before Christmas her prayer was answered and she was told there was a baby girl for her in Bethlehem, PA.

After picking up Natalie from the hospital she is forced to stay in town due to a ferocious snowstorm.

She tries the nearest Inn, but they are full and after the Innkeeper Frankie (Amy Groening) phones around and finds that everywhere is full she suggests that Mary Ann and the baby stay with her brother Joe (Benjamin Ayres) and as it’s her only choice she accepts.

However while she is stranded in town, she becomes woven into the fabric of Joe’s family and friends and life has new possibilities.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SANTA BOX (2020)

 

Kallie Watts (Cami Carver) and her mum Rachel (Tatum Langton) have had to move to a new town just before Christmas following a fire at their old apartment building with what few possessions that survived the blaze.

As a result Kallie thinks she's hexed by a Christmas curse because for 5 consecutive Christmases’ something bad has happened in her life.

After she befriends her elderly neighbour Otto (Shawn Stevens) she finds mysterious gift on her doorstep with a note inside which refers to gift as “The Santa Box” and instructs her to choose a gift.

After she makes a request for a gift for her mother the box reappears, and she gets to choose again and because she keeps selecting gifts for other people the box appears again and the events that unfold will change the way Kallie feels about Christmas forever.