A Sudden Case of Christmas: Movie Review

A good premise ruined by everything else.

A Sudden Case of Christmas is about a young girl and her parents travelling to Italy to visit her grandfather, during the summer. It’s supposed to be about the girl recreating Christmas to be able to deal with her parents’ impending divorce. The problem is that it’s barely about that. The movie seems to spend most of its time with random characters that do not add to the story at all.		2024 Directed by: Peter Chelsom Screenplay by: Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay Starring: Danny DeVito, Antonella Rose

Meet Me Next Christmas: Movie Review

A typical romantic comedy filled with romance, laughter and music.

For their 2024 Christmas rom-com slate, Netflix is releasing four movies, one each Wednesday in the month of November. With Meet Me Next Christmas, we are off to a rockin’ good start (please pardon the pun). The romantic comedy features not one but two meet cutes, an act two which has multiple laugh out loud funny scenes, an ending with all the sweet romance you could hope for, and last but not least, it is filled with fantastic music.		2024 Directed by: Rusty Cundieff Screenplay by: Molly Haldeman, Camilla Rubis Starring: Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Kofi Siriboe, and Kalen Allen

Holiday Mismatch: Movie Review

An enjoyable pairing of romance and comedy.

Holiday Mismatch should be at the top of any Hallmark Christmas rotation. The characters are very simplistic but it’s a really nice romance with the right amount of comedy sprinkled in. It also employs two of the better rom-com tropes: fake dating turning into real dating; and meddling families who are constantly trying to get them together and then break them up and using reverse psychology and reverse-reverse psychology and then rinse and repeat.		2024 Directed by: Caroline Labrèche Screenplay by: Sarah Wise Starring: Beth Broderick, caroline Rhea, Maxine Denis and Jon McLaren