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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Christmas on TV: Scouting for Christmas (Hallmark Channel, 2024 Premiere)
If you are looking for sweet, funny, and romantic, then you need to watch Scouting for Christmas, starring Tamera Mowry-Housley and Carlo Marks.
Scouting for Christmas is another new premiere for this year's COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS. It features Mowry-Housley as a real estate agent and single mom of Brooklyn (Audrey Wise Alvarez). Always on the run, she is often late in getting her daughter to and from scouts, which irks the perfectionist troop leader. Divorced from Dakota, a paleontologist out on his latest adventure, Angela has finally settled into her post-divorce life, even if it is hectic.
When it is time to decide on who to cater the troop's annual holiday event, Brooklyn suggests her mother work with local bakery owner William (Marks) to pitch his ideas to the other moms. Angela and William grow closer as they work together, but Angela isn't ready to jump into romance again. Then, Dakota returns unexpectedly, hoping for a happy reunion with his family. Angela is forced with the unenviable choice of making a decision that will impact Brooklyn no matter which man she chooses.
Scouting for Christmas is such a sweet movie. Here is poor Angela trying to do it all and making a good life for Brooklyn on their own, when her world is suddenly turned upside down. She isn't ready to welcome William into her life as more than a friend, and then Dakota arrives to set her once orderly life even more off-kilter.
As for William, played wonderfully by Carlo Marks, he loves his bakery, and he is hoping for a fresh start with Angela. There is pressure from his ex to take the bakery in a different direction, so William will have other decisions to make other than hoping for a future with Angela.
With a great supplementary cast that includes William's mother, Angela's supportive and wise sister, and the overly perfect troop leader Elizabeth, Scouting for Christmas is an equal dose of romance and humor.
Release date: October 20, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Christmas on TV: Holiday Crashers (Hallmark Channel, 2024 Premiere)
Are you looking for some double holiday pleasure, then you will want to watch another stellar Hallmark Channel's 2024 COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS premiere, Holiday Crashers.
Best friends Toni (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Bri (Daniella Monet) have worked at the same card shop for years while they struggle to find their life's purpose. But when opportunity presents itself, they begin crashing exclusive Christmas parties and weaving exciting stories about the lives they supposedly live. They are having a blast until Toni is mistaken for an attorney. Toni and Bri find themselves whisked off to a Christmas retreat in Vermont with business mogul Justin (Chris McNally) where Bri meets his trusty valet Vinny (Jag Bal). As Justin and Toni grow closer, her secret might just be their undoing. And Vinny might have his own secret, throwing Bri for a loop. Will this end in disaster or be two helpings of happily ever after?
Holiday Crashers was such a fun movie. Toni made it through Harvard Law School, but suffered a horrible panic attack when taking the bar exam. Her father still hopes one day she will join his law firm. Bri has always been good at event planning, but she lacks the confidence to make a go of it. Together, they work at a card store while dreaming of better lives. Then one day, Bri swipes an invitation to an exclusive Christmas party and the two friends crash it. This leads them on a spree of holiday party crashing, until one day when Toni is mistaken for a lawyer and is persuaded to attend a Christmas retreat put on by Justin's company to act as a legal consultant. With Bri's prodding, they go, but it doesn't take long for things to get challenging.
The setting of this movie was amazing. Who doesn't like holiday retreats in the Vermont mountains? As stories and backstories for the characters unfold, you can't help rooting for Justin and Toni and Bri and Vinny to get together. The acting in this one was superb, and I need to give a special shout out to Monet, who I haven't seen since her Victorious days. Holiday Crashers wouldn't have been the same without her.
Holiday Crashers was a spritely, sweet, and charming holiday romance. I would love to see more movies like this one.
Release date: October 19, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Christmas on TV: 'Twas the Date Before Christmas (Hallmark Channel, 2024 Premiere)
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Christmas Women's Fiction Review: The Merry Matchmaker by Sheila Roberts
- Publisher : MIRA; Original edition (October 1, 2024)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0778369609
- ISBN-13 : 978-0778369608
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