Monday, 22 September 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLLY AND THE HOT CHOCOLATE (2022)

On her way to visit her toxic boyfriend Tommy (Tommy Pope) to meet his family, Philadelphia food critic Holly (Hanna Gaffney) crashes her car into a billboard in Pine Falls, outside Boston, and is rescued by widowed truck driver Rudy (Ryan Farrell).

While her car is being repaired, she has to stay at the B&B owned by Rudy’s mother, Deb (Alice Schaerer).

Tommy is more concerned with the safety of an avocado dish she is bringing him than her wellbeing so while she is there, she spends a lot of time with Rudy and his daughter Stephanie (Olivia Gropp) and as a result she begins to reevaluate her life choices.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT THE AMISH BAKERY (2023)

Sarah (Alexandra Harris) is a cookbook editor at a Chicago publishing house who are in desperate need of a new cookbook to stay afloat.

So when her boss Darla (Mischa Hutchings) finds out that Sarah was raised in an Amish community she sends her home for Christmas to develop the idea of an Amish cookbook.

When she returns home, she is welcomed by her father, Johnathan

(G. Michael Nicolosi) and sister Rachel (Francesca Barker McCormick), and a handsome widowed local outsider, Dean (Sean Koetting), a friend of the Amish, and his daughter Zoey (Emma Henderson).

Sarah cautiously introduces the idea of creating a cookbook based on her family's recipes, which they all hope will save the family bakery. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE OF CHRISTMAS (2022)

 In Seattle, Executive Assistant Elizabeth Athens (Holland Roden) receives a voice mail from an unknown number she doesn't recognize, intended for someone named Madelyn (Meghan Gardiner) but the male caller, Carter (Steve Bacic) obviously a former lover, didn’t leave his name.

He sincerely apologised for the past and asks her to meet him in three days on Christmas Eve at “their place”.

The call coincided with the reappearance of someone from her own past, Josh Hart (Tyler Hynes) who was once one of her best friends, up until three Christmases earlier when Andrew (David Lennon), the third in their platonic threesome, died in a car crash.

So Lizzie embarks on a mission to locate one or both of the estranged couple and Josh feels inclined to help her and as they follow one lead after another, they are forced to examine their friendship and unravel the reasons for their own estrangement.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TIME FOR HIM TO COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2022)

In Seattle, Executive Assistant Elizabeth Athens (Holland Roden) receives a voice mail from an unknown number she doesn't recognize, intended for someone named Madelyn (Meghan Gardiner) but the male caller, Carter (Steve Bacic) obviously a former lover, didn’t leave his name.

He sincerely apologised for the past and asks her to meet him in three days on Christmas Eve at “their place”.

The call coincided with the reappearance of someone from her own past, Josh Hart (Tyler Hynes) who was once one of her best friends, up until three Christmases earlier when Andrew (David Lennon), the third in their platonic threesome, died in a car crash.

So Lizzie embarks on a mission to locate one or both of the estranged couple and Josh feels inclined to help her and as they follow one lead after another, they are forced to examine their friendship and unravel the reasons for their own estrangement.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WITH FELICITY (2021)

Felicity Olson (Sarah Brooks) returns to her small hometown of Aspen Grove Wisconsin after her Chicago bakery fails feeling depressed and in no mood to celebrate the holidays.

Her family however were in full on Christmas mode, and she found herself press ganged into joining in, but it was handsome farmer Herb Porter (James Anderson) who befriended, supported and loved her as she got back her Christmas spirit. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS BREW (2024)

Tori (Kaitlyn Lunardi) is a young, underappreciated business consultant working for a heartless corporation in New York, who is sent upstate by her crush Jake (Chris Cimperman) to acquire a small craft brewery for the company.

But soon after meeting the kind-hearted owner Evan (James Liddell),

she falls in love with him, and the close-knit community surrounding it.

However when she discovers that Jake plans to close it, she sets out to block the deal and save the business.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HEARTS & VINES (2021)

A TV makeover show, Destination Renovation, are working at a winery in Lockport, New York, close to Niagara Falls, when it all goes wrong.

After the Diva host of the show, interior decorator Hannah Daley (Taryn Hacker) has a meltdown Mitch (Paulie Calafiore) take the crew back to the hotel for lunch leaving Hannah and her old friend and builder Cash Gibson (Jon Hacker) at the winery.

On the flight up to Lockport Hannah sat next to a woman who tested positive for a serious infectious disease, so the CDC quarantined the crew and anyone else who came into contact with them in the previous 24 hours up until Christmas Eve.

So Hannah and Cash have to spend the two weeks up until Christmas in a Cabin at the winery and while they are on their own Hannah reveals why she has become such a Diva and then their true feelings came out.  

Cara Maria Sorbello and Kenney Myers also feature.