Friday, 17 October 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS LETTER (2021)

 

Leslie Libby (Glenda Braganza) inherited the Penny Lane Foster Home in Detroit from her parents, which she runs with Claudette (Amalia Williamson), while David Marino (David Lipper) divides his time between his duties as a postman and caring for his wheelchair-bound widowed father Robert (Enrico Colantoni), and both of them are especially sad during the Christmas season.

Leslie and David’s paths cross when he becomes her postman at a time when she is on the verge of losing everything, including the six foster children under her care because of a corrupt building inspector, Gerald Montgomery (Seán Cullen) and his selfish daughter Milan Chatsworth (Jorja Cadence) who wants to adopt one photogenic child, Sam (Ava Weiss).

Wendell (Callum Shoniker) overhears crucial conversations about their futures, and she and Sam have a plan to make things right for everyone, including Leslie and David.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR (2022)

 

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST HOLIDAY (2006)

 

Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a clerk at a New Orleans department store, living a frugal life and unfulfilling her dreams, even not pursuing a relationship with coworker, Sean Williams (LL Cool J), then, right before Christmas, she's given three weeks to live without the treatment she can’t afford, and her insurance won’t cover her.

So she quits her job, withdraws her savings and decides to go on a dream vacation to the Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic where she'd always dreamed of going.

where Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu) presides.

She checks into the Presidential Suite, eats extravagantly and enjoys all the outdoor activities  the menu, snowboards, and rubs shoulders with a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and all their partners, and as she has only weeks to live she tells them all what she thinks, and they love her for it because they think she is their social equal.

But what will happen when they learn the truth?

 

Also starring, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Jane Adams, Michel Estime, Susan Kellermann,

Jascha Washington, Matt Ross, Ranjit Chowdhry,

Michael Nouri, Jaqueline Fleming, Kendall Mosby and Chloe Bailey.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (2022)

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together? 

Thursday, 16 October 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MERRY ROYAL CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

High-powered wedding planner Felicity (Kathryn Davis) is parachuted in at the last minute to plan a royal wedding between Princess Juliette (Rebecca Finch) and commoner George (Levi Mattey)  taking place on Christmas Day and is promised a chance to become a partner by her boss Wilhelmina (Jodie Steele).

Felicity travels there with her daughter Junie (Marley Quinlan-Gardner) and has to organize everything in a relatively short time, struggling between traditions and expectations.

When she arrives, she meets a handsome stranger, who she is shocked to discover later is the Prince whose sister is getting married.

The wedding also means that the Princess gives up her title, and that her brother, Vincent (Riley Neldam) will become Crown Prince instead.

As she works closely with Vincent, she learns that he has always lived a quiet life, staying out of the media spotlight and the last thing he wants is to be the heir to the throne.

The problem is the more they work together the closer they get but even falling in love can’t change his future, or can it?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR (2022)

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS FAMILY SECRET (2023)

Joan (Caranita Harrelson) is a successful lawyer who has just reached a milestone which she believed was the most important thing in her life and made sacrifices accordingly.

One such sacrifice was not seeing or speaking to her father for three years following an argument.

But with Christmas approaching and doubting the sacrifices were all worthwhile she decides to return to Wilmington and surprise her father during his favourite holiday.

However when she gets back home the surprise is on her as her father has passed away, and then one surprise follows another the last one being falling in love. 

 

Malachi E. Hamilton, Aimee Kochan, Dejia McCowan, Ty Respus, Kevin J. Stone and Madison Warren-Coombs also star.