Friday, 17 January 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FORGETTING CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

After Marie (Victoria Rowell) passes following a long illness the family is left with crippling medical bills making it impossible for them to keep their farm.

So it was agreed that family friend and neighbour Linette (Raisa D'Oyley) would buy the farm but when April (Melan Perez) discovers that her father Bill (Dennis Jones) lied to her mother about their finances on her deathbed, breaking the family tradition of honesty at all costs, and crushing April’s heart beyond repair so she vows never to return.

A year later she is visited in the city by her friend Linette, to say that Bill was living in the barn and his mind is fading fast.

Reluctantly she agrees to return home, and she and her friends have to try to convince him of his need for help before the police intervene.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A YEAR FROM NOW (2021)

 

Paralegal Veronica Novak (Athena Hayes) goes home for the holidays to her parents Ronald and Betty (Brad Maule and Susan Triana) her overachieving sister Emily Novak (Cassidy Kelly) and younger brother Max Novak (Kasey Jobe).

Suffering from middle child syndrome She is unfulfilled in her job as she really wants to be a writer, and she gets really frustrated with everyone obsessing with her lack of a significant other, so she goes to her friends Debbie and Tyler Jones (Calvin Henson Jr. and Makeala Hiner-Smith) at their new bar.

After writing in the journal on Christmas Eve that Debbie got her for Christmas Veronica wakes up on Christmas Day, one year later, and the next day is Boxing Day the year after that.  

So she by experiencing seven years of her future over the course of one week she learns about what’s important to her family and what she needs in her life.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A LAW FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

A young and ambitious politician Gloria Winters (Savannah Lathem) is working her way up the political greasy pole and accepts the appointment of Secretary of Agriculture and  has to leave Washington with her assistant Jill (Marley Ames) and travel to the farming community of Snow Point to meet local leader Mayor Christian Baker (Chase Giacomo) who Gloria thinks is a hick.

They stay at the Inn run by the Mayors sister Carol (Ebie Adkins) which isn’t up Gloria’s standards, and she moans about everything.

Gloria and Chris are like chalk and cheese, and it seems unlikely they will ever see eye to eye on anything, but as she actually starts to meet the people on the farms her true nature comes to the surface and finds her vocation and true love in the countryside.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Andrew Davis (Malik Brazile) is a professional baseball player in Myrtle Beach and wants to rekindle things with his old college sweetheart Kelly Brooks (Sheena Faust) who is an elementary school teacher in the same city.

She is reluctant to see him because of the way things ended between them, but their mutual friend Tyler (Jimmy Willis III) encourages Kelly to give Andrew a second chance for Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MATCH FOR THE PRINCE (2023)

 

Julia Castle (Paniz Zade) is an acclaimed medieval romance novelist who is hired as a matchmaker for Prince Maximillian 'Max' Lucien Adalwolf (Jamie Thomas King) in a desperate attempt to find his true love before the fixed Royal wedding date.

But as they work closely on their quest, they draw cues from romantic novel clichés, the tropes start to become real, and they must decide whether to become the characters in their own love story or bow to the Royal traditions.


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS JOURNEY (2021)

 

After returning home after serving in a foreign war Jaime (Tyson Alexander) is looking forward to being home with his wife and getting back to normal only to discover his wife has run off with his friend and that they have lost the house because she wasn’t paying the mortgage.

So his mum (Tommye Staley) suggests they take motorcycle trip during the run up to Christmas to take him out of himself and have some adventures and do some good along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – K-9 ADVENTURES II: LEGEND OF THE LOST GOLD (2014)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) became bank manager in the  winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah, and lived with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) sixteen and eleven years old respectively.

In the year since the move Kassie has made a lot of friends and expresses her passion for music and singing with the church choir, and when Pastor Bailey (Adam Johnson) tells her the tale of John Garrison and shows her an old pocket watch the adventure begins.

And it’s that old, broken pocket watch that leads her, her dog Scoot and friends to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold, ahead of criminals Clint and Brandy (Bob Clendenin and Renny Grames) and finding the treasure would save the shelter for the Pastor in time for Christmas.