Hallmark Christmas in July 🎄 comfort & joy ❤️

[mandy200587]

Close, turns out Nikki is one of the executive producers. Jonathan Wright directed it.

i thought i was close or i may have been imagining it after three drinks

 

[Imzadi]

I watched The Wedding Veil Expectations (#4).

I really, really liked it. Very well written. I liked how Kevin McGarry's part was better written in this one. Also, he's had a year to work on his faux Boston accent and he improved immensely.

I give it +1/2 out of 5.
(Switching from Christmas trees to hearts . )

Make sure you guys stay to watch the outtakes at the end.

BTW, I just happen to see that (actor) Peter Benson directed this one. He may have directed all three. One director directed the whole trilogy last year. But, the IMDb has very sketchy details on this new trilogy. Probably so as, not to give much away.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Wedding Veil : Expectations

OK, for lack of anything “better” to do (like take down the Christmas tree), I watched this.

I really like Lacey, and I thought she did well in this one, BUT I didn’t like the multiple storylines “Avery is worried because she might/might not be pregnant” “Avery is remodeling her house, and is very hands on with the construction guy” “Avery is handling an important art exhibit with the ubiquitous curator who fights her all the way” “Avery is playing matchmaker for her mother-in-law” “Avery is trying to keep up with all the little lies she’s told along the way in all these scenarios” ……… just too much going on, IMO. I thought at the beginning she had a bit too much make up, trying to make her look like a princess (headband and all).

I do agree that Kevin’s accent (or lack of) was much better than it was in the first one, although I could still hear it on occasion.

I’m unsure whether I’ll watch the others, as I’m not particularly enamored with either Autumn or Alison.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I finally watched The Holiday Sitter. I really enjoyed this one. I think Jonathan Bennett just makes me happy

 

[Imzadi]

“Avery is trying to keep up with all the little lies she’s told along the way in all these scenarios” ……… just too much going on, IMO.

Yes, it all started to get to be too much at this point. That's why it lost half a heart/star for me.

 

[Imzadi]

Oops. Nevermind.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Watched “My Favorite Christmas Tree.” We enjoyed it, but it seemed there were loose ends to the final discovery.

 

[Imzadi]

Hallmark Channel: The Most Colorful Time of the Year
(Not to be confused with the Henry Winkler movie titled The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.)
Starring: Katrina Bowden, Christopher Russell and Ava Weiss.
Description: Ryan, a color-blind teacher turns to the optometrist parent of one of his students for help seeing red and green for the first time, in time for the holidays.

Someone did this spoofy clip of The Most Colorful Time of the Year, where Christopher Russell takes off the glasses the way Clark Kent would.

 

[bobbiwoz]

We watched “The Art of Christmas” and enjoyed it. We still have a few to watch!!

 

[bobbiwoz]

We are still watching…Tonight was a “A Brush with Christmas.” Nice!

 

[Imzadi]

We are still watching…Tonight was a “A Brush with Christmas.” Nice!

I watched this one too. I liked it.

 

[Imzadi]

I re-watched one from a few years ago, Return to Christmas Creek. It was with Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar and Steven Weber. It' the movie where the female lead's boyfriend breaks up with her. Instead of spending Christmas with her parents, she decides to go spend it with her uncle (Steven Weber,) at his inn. She has to do it secretly, as her father and the uncle are estranged from each other.

 

[Imzadi]

The Wedding Veil Inspiration (#5) is on Tonight (Saturday) on the Hallmark Channel at 8pm ET.

Re-airs: Sun 1/15 at 7pm ET
Sat 1/21 at 6pm ET
Thur 1/26 at 8pm ET

Starring: Autumn Reeser, Paolo Bernadini, Lacey Chabert and Alison Sweeney.

This movie centers around Emma, (Autumn Reeser and Paolo Bernardini's characters.)

Description: Emma's life plan is thrown off course when Paolo must return to Italy to take care of his father and she discovers a new passion for making art accessible to all.

The Wedding Veil #6 will be next weekend.


Some fun trivia:
Usually Hallmark Christmas movies are filmed in the summer when it's scorching hot and they have to fake the snow flakes falling. But, this isn't a Christmas movie so they filmed at a different time of the year. And where ever the location was for that they shot at for this movie, when it starts to snow, it's really snowing.

Lacey: "This one was really special, because it started snowing. There we are, in real life, in this gorgeous setting. We’re in this beautiful greenhouse type place, and there are all these twinkly lights. It’s already so magical, and then, lo and behold, it starts snowing!"​

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Autumn: "And it was the only day it snowed during the entire shoot. Just this one day, in this magical wedding location. I was like, ‘We are so taken care of right now. This is pure magic.'"​

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Paolo: "The funny story is that when I arrived to shoot the movie, I was in the car and was like, wow, the weather is so beautiful here. I asked the guy who was driving if they got much snow there, he said, ‘No. Never. Once every 10 years.’ After? Snow everywhere."​

More trivia: Kevin McGarry recently got engaged to his When Calls the Heart co-star, Kayla Wallace. They also did a couple Hallmark movies together: Feeling Butterflies and My Grown-Up Christmas List. They announced it on Instagram a few weeks ago:

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[Worfiedoodles]

Today’s movie was Christmas at the Golden Dragon. I really liked it. I did think there were a few too many subplots, but it was nice to see something a bit different because I teared up at the end

 

[Kennywood]

Okay, I know I didn't imagine this. A few years ago, we were watching a Lifetime movie. In the movie, people were hoping for a happy ending. One of the characters says, "This isn't a Hallmark movie."

I remember laughing at Lifetime's "insult/tip-of-the-hat" to its main competitor.

Does anyone else remember this or perhaps the name of the movie?

 

[PollyannaMom]

I've stopped watching Christmas movies for the season, but saved two or three in the DVR for "Christmas in July" binging.

I recently watched "The Dog Lovers Guide to Dating" and enjoyed it, and I am taping the new installments in the Wedding Veil series. What I'm most excited about is the new series, "The Way Home". - I watched the first episode this morning and loved it!

 

[Imzadi]

What I'm most excited about is the new series, "The Way Home". - I watched the first episode this morning and loved it!

My DVR luckily was set to record it, But, I forgot to post a Reminder here about it. Mainly because Hallmark & HM&M are inconsistent about when and what channel they premiere stuff. I had checked to see if HM&M was premiering stuff last weekend, as they used to do new movies on some Sundays. They weren't. It hadn't occurred to me to check the Hallmark Channel and for Sunday the 9pm time slot. They usually air movies at 8pm on Saturdays.

It seems that HM&M is once again being treated more like the "red-headed stepchild" with their programming - or lack of it. Even though The Way Home is a time travel movie, and more like a mystery it's instead on the Hallmark Channel.

For those who missed The Way Home, it re-airs on:
Sat 1/21 at 10:01pm on the Hallmark Channel. It is also On Demand on Spectrum Cable.

Starring: Andie MacDowell (Cedar Cove,) and Chyler Leigh (Grey’s Anatomy,)Sadie Laflamme-Snow and Evan Williams.

Description: The Way Home follows the lives of three generations of women – Kat Landry (Leigh), her 15-year-old daughter Alice (Laflamme-Snow) and Kat’s mother Del (MacDowell), who are all strong, willful and independent. More than 20 years prior, lifechanging events prompted Kat to move away from her small, Canadian farm town of Port Haven and she remains estranged from Del to this day. Alice has never met her grandmother and is unaware of the reasons for their fractured family. With Kat’s marriage coming to an end and having just been laid off from her job, she decides to return home after receiving an unexpected letter from Del urging her to come back. Although Alice is none-too-thrilled, Kat and her daughter arrive at her family’s farm, though the reunion isn’t what Kat had envisioned. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.

This series is 6 episodes.

 

[Imzadi]

I've stopped watching Christmas movies for the season, but saved two or three in the DVR for "Christmas in July" binging.

I'm down to my last few Christmas movies for the season. I'm saving Hanukkah on Rye as my last movie, since it's supposed to be good, but I might not make it to it.

While channel surfing, I accidentally re-watched part of an old special on Downton Abbey. That got me re-binge watching that for the past several days. I may go back to some Christmas movies, but by then, I'll have the last two Wedding Veil movies to see AND The Way Home.

Along with taking down all the Christmas decor, it will be time to take "Christmas:" off the thread title until Christmas in July.

 

[Imzadi]

A Lifetime movie I am recommending is Reba McEntire's The Hammer. It's more like a mystery on HM&M than one of Lifetime's stalker type movies.

I (and other people on the web,) thought this was going to be a TV series. But, when we tuned in we found out it was only a single movie.

I have a sneaking suspicion it was possibly going to be a series, but when Reba got cast instead, on ABC's Big Sky, that plan went out the window. It has all the bones for a long running series, great, smart writing, strong, intelligent female lead, great supporting cast which includes Melissa Peterman. It's set in the southwest, perfect environment for Reba.

It's not gory or bloody. Only one shot at the beginning of a dead body. And when Reba receives a box in the mail, don't look in the box. But, that's it.

It re-airs: Thur 1/26 at 11:03pm ET
And it's On Demand on Lifetime on Spectrum Cable.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I have a sneaking suspicion it was possibly going to be a series, but when Reba got cast instead, on ABC's Big Sky, that plan went out the window. It has all the bones for a long running series, great, smart writing, strong, intelligent female lead, great supporting cast which includes Melissa Peterman. It's set in the southwest, perfect environment for Reba.

Thanks for the tip! I just set The Hammer to tape.

(I also watched Big Sky because I love Reba.)