Hallmark Christmas Movies (+ other channels) ❤️ comfort & joy

[Imzadi]

We are down to the LAST weekend of new Christmas movies on Hallmark, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Lifetime and GA Family.

2 new Christmas Movies premiering tonight, Friday:

Hallmark Channel: Holiday Heritage at 8pm ET / 7CT
Re-airs: Sat 12/17 at 12pm ET
Mon 12/19 at 6pm ET
Fri 12/23 at 10pm ET
Starring: Holly Robinson Peete, Lyndie Greenwood and Brooks Darnell.
Description: Ella, with the help of her ex-boyfriend, Griffin, encourages her family to celebrate Christmas and Kwanzaa to heal their past wounds.


Lifetime: A Christmas to Treasure at 8pm ET / 7CT
Re-airs 4 hours later, 12:01am
Tues 12/20 at 6pm ET
Sun 12/25 at 10:03pm ET
Starring: Taylor Frey, Kyle Dean Massey.
Description: A group of friends return to their hometown to memorialize a loved one by going on her final holiday treasure hunt. Sparks fly between brand Austin and his former best friend Everett.

 

[Imzadi]

Love Actually is re-airing on these channels:

Sat 12/17 at 1am ET on POP
Thurs 12/22 at 10:30am ET on AMC
Fri 12/23 at 9am ET on AMC
Sat 12/24 at 6pm ET on BBC
Sat 12/24 at 9pm ET on BBC
Thurs 12/29 at 2:30am ET on AMC

 

[PollyannaMom]

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries: Mahogany Presents: The Holiday Stocking
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Starring: Tamala Jones and Mykelti Williamson.
Description: A guardian angel is given a chance to return to earth as a stranger in order to right a past wrong and reunite his family. (Filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah.)

I watched The Holiday Stocking last night. This may be the best movie of the season for me. At least of those I’ve seen, this one hit on all the notes. And it wasn’t even really about a romance. This was more like a Hallmark Hall of Fame, with a lighter story. Sooooooo good!

Thanks for the recommendation. I just finished watching it. I really liked it. It was very layered. I like how the brother's quest kept it moving forward. And while it did have a romance, it was really a movie about family.

+

Watched this one this morning and loved it!

 

[Imzadi]

Watched My Southern Family Christmas last night, I think it aired much earlier in the US? I liked it, I was glad it all worked out in the end.

My Southern Family Christmas (Hallmark)- 8/10. I really enjoyed this one. I believe it was mentioned by people that the focus wasn't the romance but rather family and yup that's what it was. It was a nice movie for that shift in attention. Bruce Campbell may be getting up there in years but he still has it working for him. I enjoyed him last year in One December Night and enjoyed him in this one too. I also liked the Creole culture coming through. I'd def. watch this one again.

I watched My Southern Family Christmas. I also liked it. I think it's one of the better movies this season. While we've seen this plot before: an adult child goes in search of an unknown parent and upon meeting them, doesn't reveal that s/he is their child, this movie is more well thought out.

The lead actress, Jaicy Eliot, was given the time and the opportunities to play the many layers and complexity and depth of feelings brought up meeting her birth father. She did a great job. Instead of this being another "deception by accident" movie, I really felt that she panicked up on meeting him, and all the fear, hopes, anticipation that all brings up.

Bruce Campbell was excellent as the elder man who had lived a hard life and had many regrets. One especially he might not be able to get past. He really was the male lead in this movie. And he and Jaicy really brought it all.

A solid out of 5.


In comparison, Taylor Cole's movie a few weeks ago, which also had the theme of her trying to find an unknown uncle in Long Lost Christmas, is only an adequate out of 5.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Christmas Class Reunion

I thought it was OK. I didn't turn it off. But I kinda thought everyone (15 years later) shouldn't still be acting like they were in high school, with all the clique-y, "what if he/she doesn't like me?", angst).

 

[Imzadi]

Christmas Class Reunion

I thought it was OK. I didn't turn it off. But I kinda thought everyone (15 years later) shouldn't still be acting like they were in high school, with all the clique-y, "what if he/she doesn't like me?", angst).

The commercials kind of looked like they still act that way.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Christmas Class Reunion

I thought it was OK. I didn't turn it off. But I kinda thought everyone (15 years later) shouldn't still be acting like they were in high school, with all the clique-y, "what if he/she doesn't like me?", angst).

I watched Campfire Christmas a few months back and sorta similar in that they reunite years later. It also had some of that too where behaviors were immature after all the time had passed but from your review of Christmas Class Reunion sounds like it was worse in that respects.

I'm not sure why but it feels like many of these whole group reunion movies are rough in not having that. People don't really want to watch someone relieving their high school angst, we want growth and maturity.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Thanks, for the Holiday Stocking recommendation, everyone. I have it set to record next Saturday.

 

[Imzadi]

Tonight is the very last new Christmas movies on Hallmark and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. (Tomorrow night, Hallmark has a Hanukkah movie to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah. )

5 Christmas movies are premiering tonight, Saturday.
I've included some re-air dates.

SATURDAY at 8pm ET / 7CT:

Hallmark Channel: ’Twas the Night Before Christmas
Re-airs: Sun 12/18 at 6pm ET
Tues 12/18 at 10pm ET
Sat 12/24 at 2pm ET
Starring: Torrey DeVitto and Zane Holtz.
Description: An actress gets the chance to direct her town’s annual Christmas courtroom drama, debating the origin of A Visit from St. Nick.

Lifetime: The Holiday Dating Guide
(re-airs Sun 12/18 at 12:01am ET
Sun 12/18 at 4pm ET
Sun 12/25 at 8pm ET
Starring: Maria Menounos, Brent Bailey.
Description: A dating expert’s publisher asks her to prove her advice really works by making a guy fall in love with by Christmas Eve. (Filmed in Tifton, Ga.)

GA Family: Aisle Be Home for Christmas (aka Big Box Christmas)
Re-airs: Sun 12/18 at 10am ET
Tues 12/20 at 8pm ET
Mon 12/26 at 2pm ET
Weds 12/28 at 6pm ET
Starring: Jennifer Freeman and Garrett Watson.
Description: A busy businessman finds himself trapped without cell service in a big box store with his ex while last minute Christmas shopping. (Filmed in L.A.)


At 10pm ET:

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries: Five More Minutes: Moments Like These
Re-airs: Sun 12/18 at 6pm ET
Tues 12/20 at 8pm ET
Sat 12/24 at 12pm ET
Weds 12/26 at 10pm ET
Starring: Ashley Williams and Lucas Bryant.
Description: Sequel to 2021′s Five More Minutes, based on the song from Scotty McCreery. A widowed single mom makes a Christmas wish that takes her back to her old home for the holidays.


UPtv: Sappy Holiday at 7pm ET / 6CT
re-airs: Sun 12/18 at 11:30pm ET
Fri 12/23 at 7pm ET
Starring: Brigitte Kingsley and Jon McLaren.
Description: A chef on the way to spend Christmas with her boyfriend, gets stranded at a maple syrup farm following a snow-related car accident.

 

[Imzadi]

GA Family's I’m Glad It’s Christmas with Jessica Lowndes, Paul Greene and Gladys Knight is also up on YouTube for a short time.

Currently, it's at a rating of 7.2 on the IMDb .com.

GA Family's I’m Glad It’s Christmas with Jessica Lowndes, Paul Greene and Gladys Knight is STILL up on YouTube at the moment. (It's missing the beginning credits, but the rest is there.)

I liked this movie. Paul Greene can actually sing! He has a great voice. Jessica Lowndes has sung in other Hallmark & GAFamily movies. They both get to sing with Gladys Knight. She even gives a singing lesson that made me all tingly, because she really knows the truth in what she said and sang. That lesson really came from her heart..

+½ out of 5.

Here is a preview of Jessica & Paul singing:

The full movie:

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I watched Holiday Heritage and thought it was very well done. Holly Robinson Peete played an age-appropriate character with a meaty role. This is how to include our favorites without them seeming like imbeciles!

Lifetime’s Merry Swissmass had Jodie Sweetin. I am a sucker for her so that helped. I thought she might have great chemistry with the guy, but they weren’t alone enough for us to tell. It did have layers but the thing that stood out the most for me was that every other scene they were trying a new warm beverage Seriously, I did like seeing the various Swiss traditions. but this seemed to want to do too much and so didn’t fully flesh out anything. But I’ll watch again so…1/2

 

[PrincessShmoo]

A Fabled Holiday. I had high hopes for this one. I was a bit disappointed. I think it was too much fantasy for me and not really much reality. I think the actors were really trying to "make it real", but it didn't work for me.

 

[RangerPooh]

I only watched one scene from Fabled Holiday. Grandma had been watching it, and I walked in when Lindsey Sterling was playing the violin. I rewatched her scene. Love her

 

[Imzadi]

without them seeming like imbeciles!

Speaking of imbeciles, I started watching Single and Ready to Jingle. I only lasted 15 minutes as the female lead was such an idiot. (I think the IMDb .com score went down .2 points during the time I was watching, as it was on TV.)

I can understand someone not looking carefully and ending up in St. John, Alaska instead of the Virgin Islands. (I've been to St. John, V.I. and I loved it. ) But her lack of intelligence and common sense was beyond belief.

She gets off the plane in summer, beachy wear. She is told she should buy some winter clothes at the airport, appropriate for ALASKA. She says something like she doesn't need to be told how to dress. She's from Chicago. The guy even says, "So you know what cold weather is then?"

Only, she says she doesn't. . . Um, okay, I guess there are some people who hire Ubers everywhere, and the most cold Chicago weather they experience is the 10 seconds from the entrance of the building to the Uber and back. But, later on, she insists on walking 3 miles, saying she can handle the cold. Yet, she has no understanding about the wind chill in Chicago, let alone Alaska. Or to make sure she has mittens. And of course, she ends up whining and complaining about the weather AGAIN.

That's when I changed the channel. Being cutesy and funny stuck in an unexpected predicament is one thing. Being a whiny imbecile is another.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I only watched one scene from Fabled Holiday. Grandma had been watching it, and I walked in when Lindsey Sterling was playing the violin. I rewatched her scene. Love her

She has a part in this? I love her too, thanks for letting me know

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I watched Holiday Heritage and thought it was very well done. Holly Robinson Peete played an age-appropriate character with a meaty role. This is how to include our favorites without them seeming like imbeciles!

Lifetime’s Merry Swissmass had Jodie Sweetin. I am a sucker for her so that helped. I thought she might have great chemistry with the guy, but they weren’t alone enough for us to tell. It did have layers but the thing that stood out the most for me was that every other scene they were trying a new warm beverage Seriously, I did like seeing the various Swiss traditions. but this seemed to want to do too much and so didn’t fully flesh out anything. But I’ll watch again so…1/2

I couldn't get into the movie either. I am also like you where I like Jodie but it wasn't working for me.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I couldn't get into the movie either. I am also like you where I like Jodie but it wasn't working for me.

I feel like Jodie never phones it in. She really tries with the material. She appreciates working. But dang, this one was too much in one movie!

 

[Imzadi]

I only watched one scene from Fabled Holiday. Grandma had been watching it, and I walked in when Lindsey Sterling was playing the violin. I rewatched her scene. Love her

She has a part in this? I love her too, thanks for letting me know

Yes, Lindsey has one short performance near the end. I wish she was in it more.

A Fabled Holiday. I had high hopes for this one. I was a bit disappointed. I think it was too much fantasy for me and not really much reality. I think the actors were really trying to "make it real", but it didn't work for me.

I liked this movie. This was my second favorite movie this season, so far. I gave it out of 5. But, I can also see how it may be too much fantasy for some.

 

[disney4us2002]

I watched Twas the Night before Christmas and HMM Five More Minutes. I enjoyed both. They both had a bit of fantasy - the first was straight up magic and the second was more like "signs" or a leap of faith.

I have noticed in a few movies this season that Hallmark is throwing their big stars in movies in a scene or two as sort of cameos. The two that leap to mind are Kimberley Sustad in the Three Men & a baby movie and last night's Five More Minutes featured a scene with Nikki DeLoach.

Did Michael Rady jump ship to GAC or just get too big for Hallmark? I really love him and haven't seen anything with him lately. He looks good with or without a beard.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I watched Twas the Night before Christmas and HMM Five More Minutes. I enjoyed both. They both had a bit of fantasy - the first was straight up magic and the second was more like "signs" or a leap of faith.

I have noticed in a few movies this season that Hallmark is throwing their big stars in movies in a scene or two as sort of cameos. The two that leap to mind are Kimberley Sustad in the Three Men & a baby movie and last night's Five More Minutes featured a scene with Nikki DeLoach.

Did Michael Rady jump ship to GAC or just get too big for Hallmark? I really love him and haven't seen anything with him lately. He looks good with or without a beard.

I think Kimberly Sustad co-wrote Three Wise Men and a Baby? I could be wrong about that but I think I expected to see her show up when I saw the writing credit…