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.
Like most Christmas movies, Last Chance for Christmas’s plot is fairly thin. The movie tries to add drama by mixing in a tough ethical question for the characters to wrestle with but then resorts to solving it at the end via Santa magic.
Broadcasting Christmas is the latest Dean Cain holiday themed movie to arise from the Faustian pact he’s apparently made with Santa Claus that forces him to star in at least one holiday themed movie every year.
The Duds and Studs 