Mini Movie Review : Holiday in Handcuffs (2007)

 

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Trudie Chandler (Melissa Joan Hart) has one passion in life - art, but right now she's a waitress at Taj's Diner Deluxe.

When her boyfriend dumps her two days before Christmas, she just can't face what her over-bearing mother who is expecting to meet her future son-in-law will say. In her desperation, Trudie kidnaps the gorgeous David (Mario Lopez,) a customer in the diner.

Although he spends most of the next day trying to escape from her, he beings to sympathize with her – her parents are both critical of her life and her passion for art and want her to get a real career.

Melissa Joan Hart is adorable as the hapless and hopeless Trudie, and Mario Lopez is excellent as kidnap victim, David. Markie Post and Timothy Bottoms are wonderfully infuriating as Trudie's unreasonable parents.

Great performances all round. Holiday in Handcuffs is a really cute movie, funny, poignant in places, and is suitable for all the family.

x Holly-Anne x

Mini Movie Review : Snow (2004)

 

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The Snow movies are an absolute must for all the family this Christmas!

A slimy big game hunter is given the task of finding a herd of reindeer for San Ernesto Zoo in California. Unfortunately, one of the reindeer he captures just happens to belong to Santa! It's just a few days before Christmas and Nick Snowden, taking over the job of Santa form his father for the first time, has to find Buddy the Reindeer and teach him how to fly before Christmas Eve; the sleigh just won't fly with just seven of the critters.
 

Nick Snowden can travel between places via mirrors and some magic dust and has landed at the zoo to find Buddy. But it's just not going to be that easy to get Buddy back home; Nick has been seen on the CCTV monitor, climbing into the reindeer pen and is mistaken for a crazy man. How on earth is he going to get Buddy back and win the heart of Sandy who works at the zoo, without her thinking he need locking up?
 

A really funny, romantic wee movie with a rather quirky Santa, the likes of which you're never seen. Great acting, funny script, and good family fun for everybody.
 

Remember to watch the sequel Snow 2 : Brain Freeze as well; it's just as cute and just as funny!

x Holly-Anne x



Mini Movie Review : Snowglobe (2007)

  

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First off, I absolutely LOVE this movie!  It has fast become one of my favorites after discovering it in 2012 and I watch it every year now.  It's a gem!

Angela's parents think she's never going to settle down and start a family – having a date would be a good start! The have a new tenant, Eddie, in the apartment building they own – and he'd make the perfect son in law, they reckon.

 

But all Angela (Christina Milian) wants to do is to escape from her dysfunctional (but loving) family. Eddie gives her a gift – a snowglobe – which magically transports her to a magical winter wonderland where every single day is Christmas and everything is perfectly calm – and perfectly perfect! She meets Douglas there (played hilariously by Matt Keeslar,) who is truly Mr. Perfect. Well, Mr. Too Perfect, actually.
 

After a mishap with the snowglobe, Angela becomes stuck in the perfect Christmas world and realizes that her own family maybe aren't so bad after all.
 

A really cute family movie, a little bit of romance, and plenty of laughs.
 

x Holly-Anne x

 

Mini Movie Review : White Christmas (1954)

 

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I'm only reviewing this because there may be one person left on Planet Earth who hasn't seen it – and you need to! Yes, you!

 

White Christmas follows Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye,) from their meeting whist serving during World War II, right up to their being a smash hit double act and show producers.
 

Circumstances find Wallace and Davis traveling to the Columbia Inn, VT, with the Haynes Sisters (Rosemary Clooney & Vera Ellen,) the siblings of a soldier Bob and Phil served with in the Army. The inn, which is failing, just happens to be owned by their old commanding officer, Major General Waverly.
 

A string of romantic near-misses and misunderstandings ensue. Everything falls apart when the sticky-beaked old housekeeper, Emma, listens in on part of a conversation Wallace is having with a TV show host back in New York City, and gets her wires thoroughly crossed, believing he wants to exploit the old General for TV ratings. Emma relays the part of the conversation she eaves-dropped on to Betty (Rosemary Clooney;) she is outraged and disappointed at what she thinks Davis is cooking up with his TV pal and leaves the inn without a word, taking a lounge singing job back in New York.
 

It's a big mess! Will they ever sort out all these misunderstandings and get themselves together?

White Christmas is one of those movies that is just filled with the magic of Christmas, especially the super-festive finale. Romantic, funny, and with fabulous, timeless songs from Irving Berlin. If you're the one person on the planet who hasn't seen it, you're missing out on something that's an absolute tradition in many a household – including mine – every Christmas. I've been known to watch it in July or even in September, or any old month of the year. Yeah, it's that good!
 

x Holly-Anne x

 

Mini Movie Review - A CHRISTMAS WISH

 

 

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A Christmas Wish is an absolutely heart-warming, charming, movie that runneth over with the true spirit of Christmas.

Martha is a mom of three (which includes a step-son,) who is left in the lurch by her dead-beat husband who runs off with a younger woman and cleans out their bank accounts in the process.

They wind up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, destitute and homeless, and just when the townsfolk rally around the family-in-need and things are looking up, guess who turns up like a bad penny?

There's tears to be shed watching this movie, but there's some great laughs too. Excellent performances from the whole cast – and the kids are absolutely awesome! Starring Kristy Swanson, Tess Harper, and Edward Herrmann, this movie is an absolute treat to watch. Great for the whole family!

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