Who’s Coming for Christmas?
“If You Cook It, They Will Come” I ended up quite liking this one. Rhiannon Fish plays Julie, a newcomer to the town of Mission, who has been hired as the head librarian of the local public library. First of all, Yay for librarians. A profession that is so much more to my liking than…
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Adopting St. Nick
Fast Times at Jolly Acres When you are going to have a movie based around a St. Nick character, it’s very very important to have a St. Nick one can feel really drawn to. I’m not sure whether I am an outlier here, but this portrayal just didn’t do it for me. He was very…
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What If Christmas
“I Know Things” Saturday, we had an amnesia Christmas theme and Sunday night we have an alternate reality Christmas! Two of my favorites! Yes, they have been done before and maybe better. This one is very similar in plot beats to Hallmark’s A Dream of Christmas starring Deloache and Walker, one of my favorite Christmas movies.…
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Forgotten Holiday
“Sam Darnold won a Super Bowl?” I’m a sucker for a good amnesia story. And Forgotten Holiday was a pretty interesting love story, that didn’t always go down the predictable path. It opens with antique dealer Kathryn Liu snagging an antique projector out from under craftsman and restorer of vintage machines (I paraphrase), Rob Ashford’s,…
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‘Tis the Season for Setups
It’s the Acting, Stupid! This movie premiered Friday night October 16th, and marked the official beginning of Hallmark’s “Countdown to Christmas.” So we have two couples here, and a daughter. We are introduced to a mother/daughter duo (Barbara Niven and Amanda Shull) and a father/son (John Lowe and Victor Webster). Of the mother/daughter team, Amanda…
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Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story
The Windy City is Mighty Pretty This is the third Holiday Touchdown movie Hallmark has done in what appears to be a #CountdowntoChristmas tradition in the making. The previous two…well let’s not go there. Except that the second one was better than the first, and I didn’t much like it thanks to a super-dumb story…
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About my Reviews
I’ve been reviewing shows on IMDb for quite a few years. This is a compilation I add to weekly. I enjoy many types of movies and programs, particularly British Mysteries and dramas, but you’ll mostly just find Romantic TV movies on this page. That’s because they usually don’t have 100s of other reviews already. If a movie has already been reviewed to death, I figure, “Why bother?”. Hallmark movies are a niche I kind of accidentally fell into. They are rated on a 10 star “special” scale: It’s more generous than I would rank a serious theatre film.
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