Monday 11 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN VIENNA (2020)

 

Jess Waters (Sarah Drew) travels to the most festive place in the world, Vienna, where she is due to perform for the local Philharmonic at the Christmas concert.

Despite her outward appearance she is dispirited and has fallen out of love with the Violin and has decided that the Christmas Concert will be her swan song as her heart just isn't in it anymore.

Once in Vienna she bumps into diplomat Mark Olsen (Brennan Elliott) at an Austrian Advent wreath lighting ceremony and she is thankful to find someone who speaks English who can explain what’s going on and the couple enjoy a little innocent flirtation before going their separate ways.

After some Violin practice and dinner alone the two meet again at a lavish function celebrating the upcoming event at which she will perform, and their eyes meet across the rather large, crowded room but this meeting ends with him leaving abruptly leaving her to doubt if they will meet again.

However, through her friend Tori Voight (Alina Fritsch) she is formally introduced to him and his children, Summer, Julian, and Isla (Allegra Tinnefeld, Oskar Ricketts and Abigail Vollnhofer) at his diplomatic residence and he apologizes for his abrupt departure and the relationships tentatively continues.

Later his children take her out sightseeing through the city and she begins to bond with them and offers them counsel for issues they can’t discuss with their father and offering them help and encouragement.

Meanwhile she is falling for their widowed father as they enjoy dinning, ice skating and exploring the city together.

But for them to make the next step he must evaluate his professional ambitions and balance those with the needs of his children.

Jess, arrived in Vienna to perform for the last time because she couldn’t find the inspiration she needed to play.

After meeting Mark and his children, she rediscovered her love for music, and hoped her love for him would be returned.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JINGLE BELL BRIDE (2020)

 

Pop sensation Renee (Donna Benedicto) has entrusted New York City wedding planner Jessica Perez (Julie Gonzalo) to plan her perfect Christmas Eve wedding and she is just putting the final touches on the plans when she is thrown a curve ball at the last-minute.

The bride had had a rethink about the bridal flowers and wanted them changed to a rare bloom - the Jingle Bell Flower, which were out of season.

So not wanting to disappoint her client she goes all out to track them down and finally locates them in the remote Alaskan town of Tapeesa.

Her plan is to collect the flowers personally, as she doesn’t want anything to go awry, so fly in, secure the flowers, and fly out again on the same day, but due to mechanical problems with the plane that doesn’t happen.

So being trapped she is encouraged by Mayor Margaret (Lindsay Gibson) to join the townspeople at the annual Jingle Bell Festival holiday event with handsome local Matt (Ronnie Rowe).

As they enjoy the magic and joy of Christmas in a small town they become close and begin to open their hearts.

But Jessica is driven on by her desire to return to New York in time for the wedding that would secure a significant promotion.

With Christmas Eve growing ever closer all her hard work appears to have been for nothing as her boss hands the wedding to a co-worker.

However, a Christmas miracle and a new love gives her the chance to see it through after all.

Sunday 10 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HEART OF THE HOLIDAYS (2020)

 

On the day New York stockbroker Sam Wallace (Vanessa Lengies) starts a new job she discovers that the company have been taken over and her boyfriend Will (René Escobar Jr) is her new boss.

So, she does the only thing she can do, she quits both of them and returns home to upstate New York to spend Christmas with her mother Tammy (Maria Ricossa) and reconnects with her high school sweetheart Noah Fitzpatrick (Corey Sevier) who she left behind in order to pursue her business career.

After some initial frostiness on his part he eventually thaws and they are able to rekindle their former love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MAGICAL CHRISTMAS SHOES (2019)

 

Noelle (Erin Karpluk) receives another pair of shoes as a Christmas gift from her grandmother, as she does every year.

They are old shoes previously worn by her grandmother and Noelle believes that they played a crucial role in her grandparent’s love story and subsequent married life.

But her best friend Allison (Genelle Williams) believes them to be magical when a series of real-life events appear to be linked to the shoes, especially those in relation to John Reid (Damon Runyan).

Noelle however thinks it’s just luck or a lack of it and becomes frustrated with the whole Christmas season but in the end the magical shoes allow her to rediscover her Christmas spirit and find love as well.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS TO SAVOUR (2021)

Ambitious Chef and restaurant co-owner Scarlett (Britt Irvin) stubbornly resists suggestions to include seasonal options on her menus for the Christmas period.

So, her best friend and partner Claire (Bethany Brown) persuades her to go on a holiday cooking getaway course where its hoped Scarlett will relearn festive cooking.

When she arrives, she is reunited with a rival chef from her past James (Zach Roerig) who is running the courses,

Despite some initial mutual hostility peace breaks out and along with the other students she embraces the holiday fare as she learns some import life lessons and finds love into the bargain. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN EVERGREEN: BELLS ARE RINGING (2020)

 

Mayor Michelle Lansing (Holly Robinson Peete) is overwhelmed by preparations for her Christmas wedding to her fiancé Thomas Turner (Colin Lawrence) who is unable to help as he is as he is working out of town, so he can only help from afar.

With so much on her plate she hires her sister-in-law-to-be and close friend, Hannah Turner (Rukiya Bernard) to manage the upcoming launch of Evergreen’s Christmas Museum.

Hannah has been searching for a challenge and is thrilled to take on the project, but things don’t go as planned at the museum and events in her private life leave her questioning her relationship with Elliot Lee (Antonio Cayonne) but in the end Evergreen comes together and is there for both couples.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – EVERY CHRISTMAS HAS A STORY (2016)

In the run up to Christmas, TV presenter Kate Harper (Lori Loughlin) accidentally admits, live on air that she doesn’t like Christmas.

Due to the backlash from viewers and sponsors alike, she and producer and ex-college boyfriend Jack Brewster (Colin Ferguson) are sent to a small town in North Dakota to film a Christmas special in order to discover her Christmas spirit and repair Kates image,

As she embraces the Christmas festivities the Christmas spirit begins to change her life and along the way, she reconciles with her estranged father Michael (Michael St. John Smith), learns to enjoy Christmas again and falls in love with her former beau.