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Holiday Watch: The Christmas Ornament

In The Christmas Ornament, Kathy Howard struggles to keep open the bicycle shop she and her late husband owned. The holiday season has …

Holiday Watch: Christmas With Holly

Holly Nagle is a girl who has lost her mom and now doesn’t talk. Fortunately for her, her mom made sure that one of Holly’s uncles would be there to look out for her and love her no matter what in this Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Christmas With Holly.

Holiday Watch: Matchmaker Santa

A pastry chef and her mismatched beau have trouble meeting up when Santa decides to strand her in a quaint town with her beau’s friend and co-worker while her boyfriend is trapped at his family lake house with his mother along with his high school sweetheart.

Holiday Watch: Love at the Christmas Table

Kat and Sam have a standing date: Elissa Beth’s Christmas table on Christmas Eve. Or, more precisely, at the kiddie table. From the title, the plot of the movie is easily guessed at from here: will Kat and Sam find Love at the Christmas Table?

TV’s Unresolved Sexual Tension – 3 Resolutions

The moment you talk about Unresolved Sexual Tension (UST) between television characters, two things happen: 1) The audience (and maybe the actors) will split as to whether or not the pair should become a couple; and 2) Someone will bring up Moonlighting…more than once. The 2012 season gives us three examples of how to deal with UTS…or how not to deal with UTS.

Pondering Amber Benson’s Relationship Question

On her blog, Amber Benson asks, Why Are Relationships So Hard? Scrolling down to the post’s comment section, you see that simple question generated a flood of comments in a very short amount of time. Apparently, this is a subject very much on people’s minds. And yes—mine, too.

Holiday Watch: Christmas Magic

There are times when you don’t want to have to work to watch a movie…especially during the holidays. Christmas Magic is an easily digested break from the hectic season. The story isn’t complicated or ironic, just quietly entertaining.

Holiday Watch: The Christmas Pageant

They say that you can take the girl out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the girl. The Christmas Pageant aims to have a town full of earnest characters worm their way into the heart of a career-oriented, driven, New York City director.

Holiday Watch: Annie Claus is Coming to Town

Santa’s daughter heads south for a sabbatical in the gentle climes of Los Angeles. There, she is targeted by an actor hired by Santa’s chief of operations to get her to fall in love and decide to not return home. Obviously he won’t succeed in the end. The question is: will we care?

Holiday Watch: A Princess For Christmas

This is one movie I’m not going to beat around the bush about—it’s a delightful holiday fairy tale that is tender without the treacle, a fantasy while still being grounded, and doesn’t take itself so seriously that it loses its ability to be unashamed entertainment. A Princess For Christmas is a fun melting pot that takes the familiar and creates its own magic.

Holiday Watch: A Holiday Engagement

This review for A Holiday Engagement almost didn’t get written. Why? Well, that’s what we’re here to talk about. In any form of storytelling, one of the worst thing you can do is…

Holiday Watch: Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmas

In a nutshell, the premise is 2006’s The Holiday except played with different situations/characters. It basically is about two people finding unexpected romance after they swap homes for the holidays. However, while the premise is familiar, this isn’t just a slapdash redux of the previous film.

Holiday Watch: Dear Santa (2011)

Crystal is an ambition-challenged woman who is unexpectedly united with a girl’s letter to Santa. In the letter, the girl asks for a new wife for her dad, one that would also be a suitable follow-on to her revered late-mother. When greeted by fate in this way, what’s a poor rich woman to do?

Holiday Watch: Silver Bells

Silver Bells, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production, gives us a solid holiday movie that his more deftly written than most. While carrying with it the necessary tropes that attach themselves to most holiday films, they aren’t fumbled as is often the case with some of the less well crafted movies of the genre.

Holiday Watch: A Christmas Wish

Sometimes life gives you lemons. Huge, lemonade-defying lemons. When your husband of dubious life choices takes everything of worth and runs off with some vixen who has caught his eye, leaving you with three kids, no home, a tank of a car, and the clothes on your back…well, those are some pretty darned big lemons. This is where we find Martha Evens in A Christmas Wish.

Holiday Watch: A Christmas Wedding Tail

In A Christmas Wedding Tail, two dogs are the reason a job-seeking widow with three young boys meets and has a romance with a widower vintner with two girls. It’s a match made in “what could possibly go wrong” land?

Holiday Watch: The Case For Christmas

Santa Claus sued for emotion distress? An earnest but untested lawyer? A lovable little girl? No, this isn’t an iconic street between 33rd and 35th. And that’s good. That’s already been done so well that the copies have only been poor imitations. Still, there is a lot that is familiar in The Case For Christmas.

Holiday Watch: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It seems to happen every Christmas: your beloved uncle brings home a perfect-for-you stranger just before the holiday and he makes your ill-suited boyfriend suspicious and jealous. Amazingly, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year does better than most at keeping an entertaining balance.

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