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”.
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…)
Cozy in for a long winter’s bitchfest, my friends. This one was a fuckin’ doozy and you can tell right from its extremely serious, unfestive poster.
The Duds and Studs 