Much About Love
Much Ado About a Shrew This one requires a complicated set up so I’ll get right to it. Bea (Ashley Williams) is a successful television director who has returned to her mother’s annual Shakespeare Festival to direct the last play staged for that summer, The Taming of the Shrew. Her mother tells her this is…
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Love Finds You
“Woo-Woo” Wooing Although there were some good things about this movie, it was pretty much sabotaged by the premise, which was contrived and absurd. It’s like the writers had the idea for the male and female to fall in love on a delivery truck while on a quest for the owner of a mysterious package…
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Aussie at Heart
Nice Yacht! One good thing about these ones that are set in faraway lands is that we almost inevitably avoid the bone tired tent poles that too many Hallmark movies are propped up by. I don’t have to list them, do I? This one is set on a small yacht travelling along the coast of…
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Absolutely Devoted to You
Sustad to the Rescue **Sigh of Relief** Thank you, Kimberly Sustad for coming to Hallmark’s rescue after a string of sub-par movies (in my opinion). She is a treasure that can transform a plain throwaway line like “I’m Leaving” into part of a witty repartee that not only makes you laugh, but gives the viewer another layer to…
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Toast to Italy
It’s Toast **Spoilers** A perfectly pleasant Torrey DeVitto and Will Kemp star in this agreeable but bland “quest” movie set in the small towns and countryside of the Umbria region of Italy. The scenery was indeed a big plus and was nicely photographed and presented as the background to the story, such as it was.…
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Love Under the Mistletoe (a.k.a. Operation Mistletoe)
Hair and Holly Last night’s (07/25/2026) Christmas in July premiere, the last of them for this year, thankfully, did not disappoint. It met my expectations, set up by the 3 preceding offerings in the series, as basic and only minimally entertaining at best. And it was not so bad as to be deliciously awful. Even…
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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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