Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story: Movie Review

An adorable romance but not the best production.

Last year, Hallmark had a Kansas City Chiefs holiday love story. I didn’t see it, but I’ve learned that it was extremely successful and was their most-watched movie of the Christmas season by a lot. Unsurprisingly, they’ve added a new movie to that series with Buffalo up this year. Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story just pours on the holiday romance with special guests: past and present Buffalo Bills players, and the city of Buffalo.		2025 Directed by: Dustin Rikert Screenplay by: Vanessa Marano, Danielle Morrow Starring: Holland Roden, Matthew Daddario

The Christmas Writer: Movie Review

Christmas-y, queer, and uneven around the edges.

As gay Christmas romances start to become more common, it also means we can probably start to become a little more critical. The Christmas Writer is unpolished. It hits on many of the traditional Christmas rom-com beats but does so from a new angle and a fresh voice, but also with unflattering lighting, bad acting, and choppy editing.		2025 Directed by: Christin Baker Screenplay by: Christin Baker, Katie I. Williams Starring: Shelby Allison Brown, Callie Bussell

Blue Eyed Girl: Movie Review

Tender, warm-hearted and real.

A drama about life -- real life for real adults. Blue Eyed Girl is a sweet, tender, charming portrait of a 40-year-old woman hitting a mid-life crisis and re-examining her life when she has to go take care of her ailing father, stay with her two feuding and polar opposite sisters, all while reconnecting with a childhood flame and the one that got away.		2025 Directed by: J. Mills Goodloe Screenplay by: Marisa Coughlin Starring: Marisa Coughlin, Eliza Coupe, Beau Bridges and Sam Trammell