Well Netflix is in the game now. What started last year with the release of ‘A Christmas Prince’ and ‘Christmas Inheritance’ becomes full blown in 2018 with the release of 4 more original Christmas movies made to compete with Lifetime and Hallmark. Fortunately, or unfortunately if you’re me, they didn’t get the memo that these movies are supposed to be terrible.
How much effect does one person have on the lives of those that surround them? It’s a philosophical question posed and resolved in the much better Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” but since Hallmark can’t pass up any script that has ‘Christmas’ in the title and Candace Cameron Bure attached to star, it gets posed again and left messily unexplored in “Journey Back to Christmas”.
Santa as a super hero. That’s probably the pitch that ION, forever in the shadow of Hallmark and Lifetime, couldn’t resist. Unfortunately they have no clue what do with that intriguing idea and it ends up that Santa’s real super power is to gaslight women.
No snark, no shade: this movie is a pretty perfect collaboration between good writing and good acting. It’s charming and sweet and funny, and goddammit, I loved it (which is why this fuckin’ thing is 3,500 words…)
I’m back with approximately one recap after having a baby. I’m surprised I even made it this far. I’ve forgotten how to self-edit so this thing is WAY too long. Welcome back to me!
The Duds and Studs 