Friday, 10 October 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS COMES TO WILLOW CREEK (1987)

 

The town of Willow Creek, Alaska, is on its knees following the closure of the cannery and are looking forward to a grim Christmas so California based Alaskan businessman Al (Hoyt Axton) plans to drive a truck load of Christmas joy from sunny cal.

However after he is taken ill on the eve of the trip, feuding truck-driving brothers Ray and Pete are forced together to take on the job along with Pete’s delinquent son Michael (Zachary Ansley).

To make things worse, along the way they run into Jessie (Kim Delaney) with whom they both have history, and she’s pregnant.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ANGEL OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE (1996)

Two weeks before Christmas, unemployed Electrician Angus Feagan (Robert Urich) leaves his family in Detroit because he has heard there is work in Kansas City but when he gets there, he and the other men find that all the positions have been filled, and a fight breaks out he fleas the scene to avoid trouble but is arrested for the crime he didn't commit.

His three children Bernice, Lilly and Jack (Tegan Moss, Britt Irvin and Alexander Pollock) take an adventurous journey to Washington to enlist the help of President Hoover (Thomas Peacocke) and meet an array of colourful characters enroute to the White House with their mother Annie Feagan (Diana Scarwid) in hot pursuit.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MRS. SANTA CLAUS (1996)

 

It’s a week before Christmas Mrs. Claus (Angela Lansbury) feels neglected by her husband (Charles Durning) during the pre-Christmas rush.

So she has Arvo (Michael Jeter) prepare the sleigh and reindeer so she could take it out  for a drive around the world.

However due to bad weather she ends up stranded in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the midst the multicultural New York in 1910.

She first meets Marcello Damaroco (David Norona) at the livery stables where the reindeer are housed and he introduces her to Mrs. Lowenstein (Rosalind Harris) and her daughter Sadie (Debra Wiseman).

She gets a job working for an evil toymaker Augustus P. Tavish (Terrence Mann) along with Nora Kilkenny (Lynsey Bartilson) and between them they bring Tavish Toys to a standstill.

But will he exact his revenge by preventing Mrs Claus from leaving.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA’S SECOND WIFE (2022)

After Mrs. Jessica Claus (Chelsea Gilson) divorces Nick 'Santa' Claus

(Jason Frederick) after 1720 years of marriage, they instantly returns to his original 40-year-old selves.

A month later head Elf Kingston (John Romanski) persuades Nick to sign up on MerryMatches.com so he can meet someone he can grow old with.

Following a disastrous series of dates with unsuitable partners he wants to give up but Elf Dakota

(Kerri Louise) urges him to try one more date on Valentines Day which also went sideways and ends up meeting Neve Pine (Sara Pardo Fishburn) and they are both smitten.

But as their relationship blossoms Jessica starts to get jealous and tries to sabotage it, so will she succeed or will love win the day. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA'S NEW WIFE (2022)

 

After Mrs. Jessica Claus (Chelsea Gilson) divorces Nick 'Santa' Claus

(Jason Frederick) after 1720 years of marriage, they instantly returns to his original 40-year-old selves.

A month later head Elf Kingston (John Romanski) persuades Nick to sign up on MerryMatches.com so he can meet someone he can grow old with.

Following a disastrous series of dates with unsuitable partners he wants to give up but Elf Dakota

(Kerri Louise) urges him to try one more date on Valentines Day which also went sideways and ends up meeting Neve Pine (Sara Pardo Fishburn) and they are both smitten.

But as their relationship blossoms Jessica starts to get jealous and tries to sabotage it, so will she succeed or will love win the day.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A COWBOY CHRISTMAS (2023)

Ambitious New York marketing executive Ella Wade (Teagan Vincze) is sent to a remote ranch in Maple Creek, Canada, run by brother and sister Cole and Mardi Reesor (Brennan Martin and Brenna Coates), to pitch to a high-profile CEO Preston Vance

(Kent Allen) who is there on vacation.

She is immediately taken by the rustic charm of the ranch and the people especially the handsome, country-loving ranch owner Cole.

She meets with Preston, and they like each other, and he agrees to hear her pitch but soon finds that isn’t her highest priority as she takes to the country life and a love she wasn't expecting to find.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT CADILLAC JACK'S (2007)

Rose (Ruta Lee) is travelling with her friend Joe (Joseph Campanella) on Christmas Eve to Omaha to reconcile with her daughter Peg (Talia Shire), the child she had to give up for adoption in her youth whom she has never met, pursued by Joe’s Daughter and Granddaughter (Mary Beth McDonough and Patty Cabrera) who think the two of them are eloping.

However after being stopped by a Traffic Cop (Kevin Dobson) for faulty taillights they are redirected to a garage next to Cadillac Jack's Diner.

While stranded at a diner Rose finds personal redemption in protecting a young baby from an abusive father Cliffie Slate (Larry Vanderveen) and is rewarded with love reconciliation and forgiveness.