Friday, 2 January 2026

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MISSION JOYEUX NOËL (2024)

 

Chicago-based interior designer Rose Demonte (Ashley Greene) is reluctantly lured back to her Ohio hometown by her brother Sal (Danny Pellegrino) to help  complete a charity project in time for Christmas which is behind due to a significant hole in the budget.

She hasn’t been home at Christmas since her mum died so there are tensions when she discovers her brother’s business partner Brysen Douglas (Wes Brown), her nemesis from high school, is living with her Aunt Gigi (Carolyn Hennesy) at the old family home and has to share a bathroom with him.

However because of the time pressures they are forced to work closely together and due to the season and Christmas magic and despite their mutual dislike of each other their feelings soften into romance.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DECK THE WALLS (2024)

 

Chicago-based interior designer Rose Demonte (Ashley Greene) is reluctantly lured back to her Ohio hometown by her brother Sal (Danny Pellegrino) to help  complete a charity project in time for Christmas which is behind due to a significant hole in the budget.

She hasn’t been home at Christmas since her mum died so there are tensions when she discovers her brother’s business partner Brysen Douglas (Wes Brown), her nemesis from high school, is living with her Aunt Gigi (Carolyn Hennesy) at the old family home and has to share a bathroom with him.

However because of the time pressures they are forced to work closely together and due to the season and Christmas magic and despite their mutual dislike of each other their feelings soften into romance.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS TOY SHOP WISH (2019)

 

Anne Garrison (Brooke D'Orsay) is head toy buyer for Sinclair's chain of department stores and is riding high when she leaves New York City for North Bay, Maine, to help her father Bill (Ron Lea) close up his store, Garrison's Toys, due to his impending retirement.

What he wants is for Anne to take over the store and run it, but she already has a job, which she keeps reminding him.

So, her mindset is very much on packing up the store and returning to the City, but then she meets Wood Mill manager Keith McClain (Trevor Donovan) and his ten-year-old daughter Jessie (Jenna Weir) and her mind is not quite as set as it was.

In part its due to a set of themed wooden Santa’s which Anne carved just before she went away to college, which seem to work magic for the people who receive them.

But also, it’s the love and nostalgia that brings the city girl back to her small-town roots.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ENGAGED BY CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

When romantic event planner Zoe (Brittany Bristow) is dumped by her boyfriend when she was expecting a proposal, she seeks the advice of an advice columnist named Adora hoping to save her relationship.

However when Zoe tracks down Adora she discovers he's actually a man named Adam (Marcus Rosner).

In order to keep his secret he agrees to help her get her new business off the ground by going on twelve dates of Christmas and in the end manage to help each other into romance.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DEAR CHRISTMAS HEARTS (2024)

When romantic event planner Zoe (Brittany Bristow) is dumped by her boyfriend when she was expecting a proposal, she seeks the advice of an advice columnist named Adora hoping to save her relationship.

However when Zoe tracks down Adora she discovers he's actually a man named Adam (Marcus Rosner).

In order to keep his secret he agrees to help her get her new business off the ground by going on twelve dates of Christmas and in the end manage to help each other into romance. 

Monday, 22 December 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OPERATION NUTCRACKER (2024)

 

Event planner Lottie (Ashley Newbrough) gets the chance to plan the prestige Warby family Christmas Charity Auction in Boston for the demanding Erica (Jennifer Dale),

with the added pressure of a promotion to head up the Boston office on the line.

The star of the show is an antique nutcracker which goes missing in a three-way baggage mix-up.

Lottie has to team up with the free-spirited heir to the Warby dynasty, Tristan (Christopher Russell) to track down the nutcracker, but while they search, they capture the heart and spirit of Christmas and romance blossoms.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE LIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

When Emily (Heather Hemmens) was a teenager, her mother Melody (Sharon Taylor) bought a farm in the country and moved her and her brother out of Seattle, which Emily resented, and as soon as she could, she moved away.

Since then she returned home very infrequently and then when her mother died her brother Nick (Antonio Cayonne) took over the farm, but he was struggling to organise the Christmas festival their mother hosted every year.

So Emily reluctantly returns home to help and unexpectedly connects with Luke

(Marco Grazzin), a local artist helping out on the farm.

But will they  have a future together when the Christmas festival is over and it’s time to leave.