Cooking Up Christmas – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Cooking Up Christmas gives you a nice family movie dealing with coming back together after loss, lies, and setbacks that closes people off from what and who they love.
Whether it is Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, Hanukkah, or others, these productions focus on the holiday spirit, and the build-up to them.
Cooking Up Christmas gives you a nice family movie dealing with coming back together after loss, lies, and setbacks that closes people off from what and who they love.
While The Christmas Lottery has many familiar storylines, between a prominently featured lesbian couple and avoiding being as corny as most holiday movies, this is one to see.
A Christmas For Mary makes it clear last year’s holiday offerings were a warm-up as clearly OWN wants to make a name for itself in the holiday movie market.
While absolutely silly, A Christmas Surprise does deliver a fun, overtly dramatic Christmas story.
While there might be times Happiest Season may make you roll your eyes, its heart and certain characters keep you watching until the end.
The Princess Switch: Switched Again, like most holiday movies, is made solely for its audience and doesn’t offer a royal invitation to detractors.
Dash and Lily begins with us meeting The Grinch, known as Dash. However, by the time Christmas comes around, his heart may grow two sizes too big.
If you like holiday movies which get your emotional, feature a “What If?” and are a little queer, you will love A New York Christmas Wedding.
Like most holiday movies, “Operation Christmas Drop” isn’t going to be the best thing out there. However, it’s simple, based on a true military exercise, and family-friendly.
For those who like unconventional holiday movies, in this case, with cursing and a dysfunctional family, “Holidate” was made for you.
As with most of Adam Sandler’s Netflix releases, “Hubie Halloween” will be a welcome addition to Sandler’s fans, and all others will question why “” got cancelled and this funded?
Black Christmas works on multiple levels. It operates as a fairly feminist film, and its incel-like villains produce a decent amount of jump scares.
Once the film tones down the “Take Down The Patriarchy!” talk, you get a decent holiday movie with lots of awkward relationships and some cringey moments.
Same Time, Next Christmas is a shockingly good romance film, featuring childhood sweethearts.
The Christmas Prince series continues and remains perhaps one of the best holiday traditions of the modern age.
Merry Happy Whatever is an ode to those who hate their in-laws and how their spouse changes when around them.
Holiday Rush just as much will get you into the holiday mood, as it may push you to recognize the people who helped you make it to the end of the year.
Turkey Drop is fun, dramatic, romantic at times, and one of the few films that doesn’t skip over Thanksgiving.
Carole’s Christmas has a nearly perfect mix of cheesy, but cute, relationships, mixed with the unfortunate realities many people go through.
Vanessa Hudgens further pushes the idea she is the queen of holiday movies as she potentially finds another franchise at Netflix.
OWN’s first foray into Christmas movies is sweet, family-friendly, and sets a good precedent for the holiday films that will follow.
Let It Snow will certainly warm you up a little bit, but something about it seems very formulaic, and that keeps it from having holiday magic.
Last Christmas, with it addressing the immigrant experience, having a romance which grows on you, and George Michael music? Oh, prep to enjoy yourself.
Christmas is coming early, and neverminding Halloween and Thanksgiving, with this cute film that surprisingly isn’t a Netflix release.
Like most holiday movies, No Sleep ‘Til Christmas makes you scratch your head and question the logic of what’s happening.
Eve is back and it’s not just to Mary Poppins another girl’s life but also to keep from being discontinued!
Surprisingly, the most interesting thing about A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding isn’t the wedding but an investigation.
The Truth About Christmas tries, it tries really hard. But I can’t firmly say it succeeds in everything it was trying to say or do.
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The Princess Switch is a little cringey at times, in a comical way, and definitely is a must if you are into holiday movies.
Christmas With A View may lack magic and happenstance, but that’s what makes the romance a bit easier to get into.
The Holiday Calendar may not win over people who don’t like holiday/Christmas movies, but if you do? This is a good film to start the season.
The overall goal of Wherever I Look is to fill in that space between the average fan and critic and advise you on what’s worth experiencing.
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