🎄Snow? Check
🎄Gorgeous cute towns and villages that I just have to go to? Check
🎄Swoony guys with perfect hair and teeth and smiles that belong in a toothpaste commercial? Check.
🎄Christmas decorations that would make even Martha Stewart cry? Check
🎄A dead relative or 2 or even better a dead spouse...
Yep it's Christmas romance movies Hallmark style. Though sometimes it's hard to tell since other networks have jumped into the fray. Either way all of the above checklist will generally be on view and I can wallow in all their Christmasy goodness until my brain goes numb or I've eaten all the chocolate in the house.
Hearts of Winter
Starring: He was in Continuum and she was in Teen Wolf
Original release:2020
Synopsis: An interior designer (aren't they all) helps a family turn their house into a homeHallmark strikes again with their dead relative theme (this time he's a widower) and zero chemistry between the 2 leads. Still the snow was nice.
The Mistletoe Promise
Starring: A cute guy
Original release: 2016
Synopsis: 2 strangers make a pact to help each other get through ChristmasSeriously love this.
It's cute and sweet and way less sappy and sentimental than so many other Hallmark movies.
And loved, loved, loved that both characters were independent, non family people.
Twinkle All The Way
Starring: Yet another cute guy
Original release: 2019
Synopsis: A wedding planner has to pull off the ultimate Christmas weddingSentimental as anything but it kind of works. Then again I was probably just distracted by the snow and Ryan McPartlin's smile.
A Castle for Christmas
Starring: Brooke Shields and the guy from The Princess Bride
Original release: 2021
Synopsis: A writer heads to Scotland to escape a scandal.I should love this but OMG it was so bad in every way. The only
thing that made this movie even remotely worthwhile was the castle and
the Scottish wintry scenery.
Seriously disappointed.
The Christmas Contract
Starring: He's from iZombie and she's married to Sam and Dean's dad
Original release: 2018
Synopsis: A woman takes her friend's brother with her as her date at ChristmasThe 2 leads were decent enough and yet somehow the story didn't grab me. Maybe I just like my Christmas with a little more snow.
Matchmaker Christmas
Starring: No idea
Original release: 2019
Synopsis: An editor has to work with her ex who is a best selling authorZero chemistry and the male lead came across as a pushy stalker. So not the romance movie you want or need.
Emily Rose however was good and should seriously do more of these kind of movies.
A Golden Christmas
Starring: Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Original release: 2009
Synopsis: Two people fight over a houseI have no idea what they were thinking, except that they weren't.
Zero chemistry and the female lead character was just a horrible person. Big big pass.
Love Hard
Starring: the chick from Vampire Diaries
Original release: 2021
Synopsis: A dating and mistaken identity.It
tries hard. Really, really hard. And fails on pretty much most fronts.
Not helped at all by having a romantic hero who looked like he was about
15 years old.
I'm really not having much luck with my Christmas viewing so far.
Christmas Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses
Starring: Teen Wolf and Vampire Diaries united
Original release: 2019
Synopsis: An interior decorator is hired to decorate a mansion for ChristmasA
nice enough story and the lead actors were good (Matthew Davis was well suited
in the role) but the spark to make this work just wasn't there.
And once again my Christmas viewing is lacking swoony romance vibes.
Hope at Christmas
Starring: And another really cute guy
Original release: 2018
Synopsis: A woman returns home to sell her grandparents house.Pleasant
enough though a different actress in the lead would have made it way
better. Then again there was Ryan Paevey and he was a writer so I was
happily distracted.
I also want one of those owl book bags.
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