Hallmark Christmas in July 🎄 comfort & joy ❤️

[Worfiedoodles]

Speaking of time travel stories, what did all of you think of the Christmas train movie? I saw that listed recently but did not record. Looking forward to summer and Christmas in July movies to come.

I loved that one! I recommend it, I thought it was well done

 

[Imzadi]

Speaking of time travel stories, what did all of you think of the Christmas train movie? I saw that listed recently but did not record. Looking forward to summer and Christmas in July movies to come.

I watched it again when it re-aired. I liked it. Although it wouldn't be my favorite. So far, the order of the top three time travel movies is:

A Timeless Christmas with Ryan Paevey & Erin Cahill.

Rip in Time with Niall Matter.

Timeless Love with Rachel Skarsten & Brant Daugherty. Rachel wakes up from a coma after a car accident. During her coma, she had dreamed she had a husband and 2 kids. Upon waking, she is told it was all a dream. Then she runs across the guy in real life. . .

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I watched it again when it re-aired. I liked it. Although it wouldn't be my favorite. So far, the order of the top three time travel movies is:

A Timeless Christmas with Ryan Paevey & Erin Cahill.

Rip in Time with Niall Matter.

Timeless Love with Rachel Skarsten & Brant Daugherty. Rachel wakes up from a coma after a car accident. During her coma, she had dreamed she had a husband and 2 kids. Upon waking, she is told it was all a dream. Then she runs across the guy in real life. . .

I agree! I have A Timeless Christmas in my DVR from the last time it aired. It will make a nice second viewing

 

[Imzadi]

Oops! Late Reminder:

Tonight is the premiere of Hidden Gems on Hallmark at 8pm ET.

Stars: Hunter King (as the female lead) and Beau Mirchoff (as the male lead.)

Description: Addie (Hunter King), is the maid of honor for her sister’s Hawaiian wedding. One day during a paddleboard yoga class, she loses her grandmother’s ring in the ocean. It’s a treasured family heirloom, and Addie’s not one to accept this unfortunate accident. So, she hires local dive instructor Jack (Beau Mirchoff) to aid in her search. Addie wants to go searching with him, since she’s Scuba certified.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Oops! Late Reminder:

Tonight is the premiere of Hidden Gems on Hallmark at 8pm ET.

Stars: Hunter King (as the female lead) and Beau Mirchoff (as the male lead.)

Description: Addie (Hunter King), is the maid of honor for her sister’s Hawaiian wedding. One day during a paddleboard yoga class, she loses her grandmother’s ring in the ocean. It’s a treasured family heirloom, and Addie’s not one to accept this unfortunate accident. So, she hires local dive instructor Jack (Beau Mirchoff) to aid in her search. Addie wants to go searching with him, since she’s Scuba certified.

This sounds perfect for summer — very light and hopefully some humor

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Thank you, Worfiedodles. I'm not too big on time travel movies but will record it the next time it's on. I've also wondered how the time capsule movie was? I never did see that last year either. Happy movie watching everyone and have a good night

 

[Imzadi]

Hallmark will have Christmas in July this year.

With so many changes to this "new Hallmark" I had wondered if they would be stupid enough to get rid of Christmas in July. Nice to see that isn't changing.

Hallmark usually premieres one new Christmas movie during July. This year it will be a movie starring Kevin McGarry. The movie is called My Grown-Up Christmas List.

Kevin is in a real-life relationship with Hallmark actress Kayla Wallace. Hallmark is making use of their real-life relationship as Kayla stars with him in this movie too. They starred together in Feeling Butterflies back in March. And they are on When Calls the Heart together, although they aren't a couple in that show.

More news for Christmas in July:

In addition to Kevin McGarry's Christmas movie called My Grown-Up Christmas List, premiering during Christmas in July, Hallmark announced they will premiere two more new Christmas movies in July:

Campfire Christmas is premiering on Saturday, July 16.
It stars: Tori Anderson, Corbin Bleu, and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman.
Description: Romance rekindles for Peyton and her closest friends when her parents decide to host a holiday themed reunion before selling their family owned summer camp.

Also:
Christmas in Toyland is premiering on Saturday, July 23.
It stars: Vanessa Lengies and Jesse Hutch.
Description: A toy store data analyst attempts to save hundreds of jobs right before Christmas to help keep the in-store experience alive.

The Twitter account SleepyKittyPaw noted that Christmas in Toyland filmed last September under the title “Christmas in Trinket Town” and may be a network acquisition rather than a film made specifically for Hallmark. The movie was filmed in Hamilton, Ontario, rather than in Vancouver, which the majority of Hallmark movies are made. Also, the director usually makes movies that air on UPtv & Lifetime instead of Hallmark.


This is good. If we watch these three movies in July, we will get a mini-breather during Christmas season as we will have already watched them the weeks they air in Nov-Dec. We can then catch up on a Lifetime or ION Christmas movie or a different Hallmark Christmas movie instead. I get overwhelmed when they start piling up in my DVR.

 

[AustinTink]

Oops! Late Reminder:

Tonight is the premiere of Hidden Gems on Hallmark at 8pm ET.

Stars: Hunter King (as the female lead) and Beau Mirchoff (as the male lead.)

Description: Addie (Hunter King), is the maid of honor for her sister’s Hawaiian wedding. One day during a paddleboard yoga class, she loses her grandmother’s ring in the ocean. It’s a treasured family heirloom, and Addie’s not one to accept this unfortunate accident. So, she hires local dive instructor Jack (Beau Mirchoff) to aid in her search. Addie wants to go searching with him, since she’s Scuba certified.

That girl looked so familiar, I had to look her up. She is sister to Joey King which is why I thought I recognized her. Joey was in a movie preview we just saw at the theater for Bullet Train with Brad Pitt.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Oops! Late Reminder:

Tonight is the premiere of Hidden Gems on Hallmark at 8pm ET.

Stars: Hunter King (as the female lead) and Beau Mirchoff (as the male lead.)

Description: Addie (Hunter King), is the maid of honor for her sister’s Hawaiian wedding. One day during a paddleboard yoga class, she loses her grandmother’s ring in the ocean. It’s a treasured family heirloom, and Addie’s not one to accept this unfortunate accident. So, she hires local dive instructor Jack (Beau Mirchoff) to aid in her search. Addie wants to go searching with him, since she’s Scuba certified.

Watching it tonight and I am enjoying it!

 

[elgerber]

That girl looked so familiar, I had to look her up. She is sister to Joey King which is why I thought I recognized her. Joey was in a movie preview we just saw at the theater for Bullet Train with Brad Pitt.

The commercials have been driving me nuts. She looks just like Joey!

 

[Imzadi]

That girl looked so familiar, I had to look her up. She is sister to Joey King which is why I thought I recognized her. Joey was in a movie preview we just saw at the theater for Bullet Train with Brad Pitt.

I thought she kind of looked like a younger Lisa Remini.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I thought she kind of looked like a younger Lisa Remini.

Or Leah Remini

 

[Allison]

I recognized her from The Young and The Restless.

 

[Imzadi]

Good and bad news for Kristoffer Polaha fans:

Good news: Kristoffer is currently filming a Hallmark Christmas movie in Winnipeg, Canada. So, he will have one this Christmas. However, on social media, he says this new film will be “Hallmark 2.0” for fans. That this movie is going to “blow people away.” They were filming at a place called The Forks in Winnipeg. I don't know if he was referencing some place or stunt in the movie. Or if the movie might not follow the usual (predictable) Hallmark formula.

Bad news: It seems his Mystery 101 series has been shelved for now, with no return date (possibly ever.) Kris had previously mentioned in an interview that there would be at least one more episode. But, in a new interview with Metacritic a couple days ago, he now says, "Mystery 101 is, for all intents and purposes, on a very long hiatus. We will find out about the future of Mystery 101. That's not to say it's canceled, but I have no dates as to when we're going to do No. 8.

"I got this random call from my co-star [Jill Wagner - who is working on executive producing her own streaming series for Paramount+ starring Zoe Saldana and possibly Nicole Kidman,] in October and she was like, "Yeah, we're not going to shoot Mystery 101 in November, it might get pushed to January." And I got on the phone with everybody at Hallmark and said, "Hey, what's going on?" My Spidey senses were tingling, and I was like, "I don't know that we're gonna film this one any time soon."

Instead, his agents then got him Buried in Barstow, a hopeful new series for Lifetime that launched June 4. Kris plays opposite Angie Harmon. Kris signed a contract for four movies with the hopes that there will be more if the series is a success.

So, at least he can seen on Lifetime.
Buried in Barstow is On Demand on Lifetime.
The next airing of it is on Sat, June 11 at 2pm ET on Lifetime if you prefer to record it.
It also be seen here on Amazon Prime.

Kris said, "It was like a little God wink because it was literally going to shoot at the same time as Mystery 101 was going to shoot."

(Like I said, when Hallmark told their regular actors & actresses that their work was no longer secure, they went and got cast in other stuff. )

Kris doesn't have an exclusive contract with Hallmark. So, he also got a role in Jurassic World: Dominion opening this weekend. Turns out, he's really good friends with the director, Colin Trevorrow:

"I can't say much about Jurassic World, but I will tell you this: Colin [Trevorrow] and I have known each other for a very long time. He was my roommate in college — we met on Semester at Sea around the world together — and I did a short film for him back in the day. He did some directing stuff for [my wife] Julianne when she worked at the Union Rescue Mission in Downtown L.A.; he was one of my groomsmen in my wedding. We've had a nice, fun, long relationship, and back in 2001, we were watching the third and final Jurassic Park together, and we were both film nerds and he was a student of Steven Spielberg. He taught me so many things about how Steven Spielberg told stories and the camera angles he used and why he used them. He just had this really high IQ for those kinds of stories. And when the movie ended, and he was like, "Yeah, that was an interesting way to end it. I really liked that. But I know what they should do next." And he proceeded to pitch the entire Jurassic World concept: The Barbasol can had DNA in it and it gets off the island and all of a sudden dinosaurs are in the world, they're part of the city and they're running amok, and you literally will call it Jurassic World. And I remember sitting in the theater, hearing the pitch, 21 years ago. So, when he got the job for Jurassic World, there wasn't a shadow of a doubt in my mind that he would crush it."

 

[Imzadi]

Reminder:
Two new Hallmark movies this weekend!

On the Hallmark Channel:
Saturday, June 11: Caribbean Summer premieres at 8pm ET.
Starring: Heather Hemmens and Ser'Darius Blain.

Description: Hallmark continues to transport us to a tropical getaway in Caribbean Summer.
Jade (Heather Hemmens), a morning news producer, is forced to take a vacation after an embarrassing gaffe during a live broadcast. She arrives to a relaxing Caribbean island, but Jade’s trip gets off to a rocky start thanks to a snafu involving the house she rented for her stay.

Serendipitously, Jade manages to turn things around and begins a romantic Caribbean adventure with the legitimate owner of the house, a mysterious man named Ford (Ser’Darius Blain). As Jade slowly lets her guard down and welcomes all that the island, its people and her handsome host have to offer, her heart and job come into direct conflict when she finds out the true backstory of the man she’s falling for—and it’s a career-defining scoop. Will Jade use this new information to get ahead in her career or will she follow her heart and help Ford clear his name once and for all so they can start a new chapter together?

I just love how dresses are so flirty and feminine this season. After two years of people living in sweats or yoga pants, it's nice to see women having some fashions that just seem celebratory of being out and about again.


On the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries:
Sunday, June12: Color My World With Love premieres at 9pm ET.
Starring: Lily D. Moore, David DeSanctis, Erica Durance, Benjamin Ayres.
Directed by Peter Benson.

Description: Lily D. Moore and David DeSanctis are bringing a groundbreaking love story to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. It's a story that centers the experiences of people with Down syndrome.

In the movie, single mother Emma (Erica Durance) is fiercely protective of her daughter, 22-year-old Kendall, who Moore says is “independent and wants her mom to let her grow up.” Kendall is a talented artist who paints in the impressionist style. Her life changes forever when she meets Brad in a cooking class and they fall in love.

Brad, as described by DeSanctis, is independent and responsible with a “good sense of humor and fun-loving.” Unlike Lily, he lives on his own and works in a T-shirt shop. Brad lost his parents in an accident years prior, which prompted longtime family friend Nic (Benjamin Ayres) to step in and help Brad when he needs it. As Kendall and Brad pursue their romance, Emma — previously burned by past relationships — is inspired to let more love into her life.

Viewers know Moore from her memorable performance in Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, and now, she has a lifelong goal fulfilled in by starring in a film.

“It’s a dream come true! I always wanted to be the lead in a movie, and I finally got my chance,” she tells TV Insider.
Moore and DeSanctis hope the movie will change peoples’ perception of people with Down syndrome.

“I think everyone paints their own story with your emotions and that we all have endless possibilities,” Moore says. “We want to be accepted as who we are and to be given the chance and the opportunity to show the world what we can do and what we will do,” DeSanctis adds. “We have the same wants and needs that everyone has. We are more alike than different.”

 

[Imzadi]

Reminder:

Saturday, June 18: Moriah's Lighthouse premieres at 8pm ET on the Hallmark Channel.
Starring: Luke Macfarlane and Rachelle Lefevre.
Writer: actor Paul Campbell wrote the teleplay.

Description: This movie is set on location in a French seaside getaway. Based on the book series of the same name by Serena B. Miller, Moriah (Rachelle Lefevre) is a talented woodworking artisan who carefully crafts beautiful creations for her clients in a beautiful French island town where her family has lived for generations. She dreams of one day being able to purchase the lighthouse keeper’s residence that had been home for years before being decommissioned and plans to use her skills to lovingly restore it to its full beauty.

Moriah is shocked and saddened to learn Ben (Luke Macfarlane), an American architect who checks in to her aunt’s hotel for the summer, has been hired to design a new home for the new owner. But the purchaser has an unexpected connection to the island as well as Moriah’s aunt, which may lead to more surprises for Moriah as the summer unfolds.

Some of the filming locations are: the Hotel Castel Beau Site, Brittany, France, and Ploumanac'h Lighthouse, Perros-Guirec, France.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Reminder:

Saturday, June 18: Moriah's Lighthouse premieres at 8pm ET on the Hallmark Channel.
Starring: Luke Macfarlane and Rachelle Lefevre.
Writer: actor Paul Campbell wrote the teleplay.

Description: This movie is set on location in a French seaside getaway. Based on the book series of the same name by Serena B. Miller, Moriah (Rachelle Lefevre) is a talented woodworking artisan who carefully crafts beautiful creations for her clients in a beautiful French island town where her family has lived for generations. She dreams of one day being able to purchase the lighthouse keeper’s residence that had been home for years before being decommissioned and plans to use her skills to lovingly restore it to its full beauty.

Moriah is shocked and saddened to learn Ben (Luke Macfarlane), an American architect who checks in to her aunt’s hotel for the summer, has been hired to design a new home for the new owner. But the purchaser has an unexpected connection to the island as well as Moriah’s aunt, which may lead to more surprises for Moriah as the summer unfolds.

Some of the filming locations are: the Hotel Castel Beau Site, Brittany, France, and Ploumanac'h Lighthouse, Perros-Guirec, France.

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Well that just sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Bring on the French scenery

 

[Imzadi]

Well that just sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Bring on the French scenery

Yes! I just had to include that photo of her sitting in front of the sea, and the one of the French village where they sat for coffee or lunch.

 

[Imzadi]

Kristoffer Polaha's agents then got him Buried in Barstow, a hopeful new series for Lifetime that launched June 4. Kris plays opposite Angie Harmon. Kris signed a contract for four movies with the hopes that there will be more if the series is a success.

So, at least he can seen on Lifetime.
Buried in Barstow is On Demand on Lifetime.
The next airing of it is on Sat, June 11 at 2pm ET on Lifetime if you prefer to record it.
It also be seen here on Amazon Prime.

I watched Kristoffer Polaha in Buried in Barstow on Lifetime. I usually don't watch the non-Christmas movies on Lifetime, so I don't know how it compares with others. It definitely has more violence with blood spattered around. It has a TV rating of TV-14 (years old) and a warning for violence. It is not a light mystery like on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. So, if the violence is a bit much, this might not be your cup of tea. Although they don't have a lot of incidences of it. Maybe 3-4 thoughout the movie? So you could turn your head when you know it's coming. And you always know when it's coming.

That said, I did like the movie. I found it kept my interest all the way through with it's twists & turns. It was great seeing Angie Harmon as the lead. She's smart & strong and incredibly tough when it comes to protecting her daughter and the life she has created for them. Kris did a good job. I think his character will develop as the series moves along.

It does end on a cliff-hanger. Not "cliff-hanger" in that they end the current mystery, then start a new one and leave that dangling as a teaser. It ends on a real cliff-hanger, with a lot of loose ends and on-going questions on how they will continue the series in the next 3 installments.

It's currently On Demand if you get Lifetime.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Thanks for your review - I will definitely check this out!