The Spirit of Halloween
A Halloween Carol When I saw the previews for this, I thought this one had a good chance of being one I really might like. But unfortunately for me it was a case of the previews being the best part of the movie. It was a Halloween version of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens,…
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A Knight to Remember
“When I Wished for My Heart to be Turned to Stone, I Meant It Metaphorically!” Hallmark’s time travel romances are amongst some of the best movies that Hallmark has made.* There’s something about the fish out of water trope that practically guarantees humor. I usually can summon up a certain degree of sympathy and empathy…
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Pumpkin Regatta Romance
Rise of the Giant Squashes To say I was dubious about this one is an understatement. I mean, A regatta race using giant hollowed out pumpkins as boats? Come on, now. All I could think of was the slime. I thought this was one of those spurious Hallmark disconnects from reality that many of their…
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Falling Into Place
Falling Peacefully to Sleep. This was the same, yet different. It included all of the usual Hallmark clichés and plot points that loyal watchers have come to expect and even rely on for their weekly dose of cozy happy romance. Yet this one took it to a whole other level of comfort and tranquility. We…
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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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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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