Monday, 14 June 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOWED-INN CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Beyond both being journalists for Epiphany, a New York based online magazine, Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew W. Walker) are polar opposites, both at work and in their private lives.

With neither of them having any Christmas plans, they volunteer for a special writing assignment in Aspen but a snowstorm forces their plane to land somewhere short of Colorado in none other than Santa Claus, Indiana.

Due to the holidays, the only place they can find that has any accommodation left is the Winters Inn, owned by an elderly couple, Christopher and Carol Winter (John B. Lowe and Belinda Montgomery), which is like a winter wonderland.

But once safely ensconced at the Inn the two must overcome their differences as the focus of their story shifts to saving the historic Inn and along the way they rediscover the magic of Christmas.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1976

 

Takeo Fukuda became the Japanese premier.

WHEN SANTA ISN’T WORKING # 2

 

When Santa isn’t working

With a happy ho ho ho

He likes to ballroom dance

Going quick quick slow

Then he dances backwards

And he goes oh oh oh

GOOD KING WENCESLAS ORDERED OUT

Good King Wenceslas ordered out

On the feast of Stephen

An eighteen slice with extra cheese

Deep pan, crisp and even


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS VILLAGE (2018)

 

When she was a child, Darcy (Caitlin Thompson), had no control over the Christmases with her argumentative parents Bill and Sylvia (Gary Hetzler and Norma Sheahan), so it was perhaps unsurprising that she grew up to be a Christmas control freak.

In fact she was so obsessed with Christmas perfection that she actually lost sight of what Christmas actually meant and what was really important to her.

Its only when she finds herself magically transported into what she always believed to be her ideal of the perfect Christmas Village that she learns that 'perfection' isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Darcy’s love interest comes in the form of Brandon and Tom (James Henri-Thomas and Robbie Silverman) in this quirky Christmas offering.

 

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1974

 

Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia causing unprecedented damage.

MY BROTHER WAS FIVE YEARS MY SENIOR

 

My brother was five years my senior

So he always led me astray

He took me on a hunt every December

Leading up to Christmas day

To find the presents that mum and dad

Had cunningly stashed away