Mini Movie Review : The Case for Christmas

 

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In The Case for Christmas a widower, recently qualified as a lawyer and desperate for clients agrees to take on Santa Claus as a client.

Santa is being sued by the ruthless head of a sporting goods manufacturer who plans to demonize the old Elf King so his brand new Christmas icon, Santana Snow, can take over. Santana Snow is a fairy who delivers – you guessed it – sporting goods for Christmas!

Dean Cain is wonderful as the lawyer dad, Michael Sherman (but don't take my word for it - I'd watch him recite his grocery list and applaud!) and George Buza and Dylan Roberts are authentic and convincing Santa Clause and Charlie Elfkin (Santa's Head Elf,) respectively.

The Case for Christmas is a super-cute festive movie for all the family. The acting is superb, the script well-written and funny and all the characters are endearing – except for the scuzzball corporate head and his lawyer!

A charming, mildly romantic Christmas movie that's a must in our household from now on. You'll love it!

x Holly-Anne x

Mini Movie Review - CHRISTMAS ANGEL

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Young Olivia is intrigued by the spooky old dark house next door. Her best buddy, Lucas, tells her it's a wishing house – all you have to do to make your wish come true is throw rocks at it and break some glass!

Olivia and her classmates have an assignment to do before the holidays – My Impossible Wish. One of Olivia's classmates is a foster child whose impossible wish is to get a new, horrendously expensive bike for Christmas. Olivia goes to the wishing house and wishes the foster kid could get the bike he wants - without breaking any glass.

Olivia's wish is mysteriously granted, as are some more of the wishes she wanted for other people. Suddenly, the wishing house is besieged by rock-throwing kids.

Olivia wonders if the granted wishes have something to do with the strange blue light that emanates from inside the spooky old dark house at night. Could there be an angel in there, granting all these seemingly impossible Christmas wishes?

But Olivia is smart and curious and needs to find out exactly who, or what, is really behind all these granted wishes.

This is a must-see Christmas family movie! It has a wonderful message of selflessness and giving to others, and is one of the best message movies I've ever seen.

The cast is superb, especially the two best friends, Olivia and Lucas played by Izabela Vidovic and Tyler Humphrey respectively, and the incredible Della Reese as the Spook House-dweller. I've rarely seen two such incredibly talented child actors in a movie. They are funny and adorable and you and your family will absolutely love this movie. Highly recommended!

x Holly-Anne x

Mini Movie Review - A GOLDEN CHRISTMAS





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Just watched this super-cute, family-friendly Christmas movie called A Golden Christmas.  (It's not really a dog movie, per se, so don't let the cover and the title put you off if you're not a doggie lover - you'll miss a treat!)

Jessica has been estranged from her family for the last few years, unable to return to the place she and her late husband were so happy. But this year she comes home for the holidays and starts thinking about one summer when she was nine years old and met a boy at the campground where her family home is now built. She was 'Leia' and he was 'Han' (from 'Star Wars.') They never knew each others real name, and they never saw each other again. That summer they buried a time capsule in what is now Jessica's parents back yard.

Enter Michael, a handsome guy who lives in town and has bought Jessica's parents house; there's just one problem – Jessica wants the house too. Both of them want it for sentimental reasons – might they find out those reasons are one and the same, if they ever stop butting heads with each other?

Good performances, a cute dog, a couple of cute kids, and a sentimental story line. I enjoyed this movie and I almost missed it because I'm not really into the whole cutesy-wootsy dog movie thing. In the end I decided to watch it because of a good cast list including - Andrea Roth as Jessica, with Bruce Davison and Alley Mills as her parents. Suitable for the whole family from 9 months to 99 years!

x Holly-Anne x