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Switched at Christmas (2017) - Hallmark It has been two years and almost fifty movies, but we’ve finally stumbled onto one starring the ubiquitous Holiday Movie actress, Candace Cameron Bure.  Did you know that she’s Kirk Cameron’s younger sister?  I did not know this.  Possibly because I was unaware of this young lady’s existence before a few days ago.  Nice to meet you Ms. Cameron Bure.  Kate and Chris (Bure) are twin sisters leading two very different lives.  Kate is a single, high flying real-estate executive living in a downtown Denver penthouse, while her sister Chris is a high school teaching divorced mom of two, living about an hour away in the suburb of Littleton.  Oddly enough, the twins don’t see each other much.  I was going to say because it’s more cost effective, special effects wise, to keep the twins apart but I gotta say this movie did a phenomenal job of seamlessly putting Both Candace Cameron Bure’s in the scene at th...

A Prince for Christmas (2015) - ION TV And we've arrived at the end of this leg of the journey, watching nothing but Royal Themed holiday Christmas movies, with 'A Prince for Christmas', but there are a couple of glaring omissions that unfortunately holds it down. Emma (Viva Bianca) is a diner owner / operator in some cold, snowy northeastern town, but despite the love of her baby sister Alice (Brittany Beery), Emma is always sad.  Her parents died a few years back returning from buying a Christmas Tree, thus she's not too fond of Christmas and hates trees in particular, Her boyfriend Todd the used car salesman (Aaron O'Connell) is a bit of a jerk and she's dumped him, though Todd refuses to accept this, and is she sick of working in a diner and wants to see the world. Halfway around the world in the small country of Balemont, I think, resides prince Duncan (Kirk Barker).  In seven days time he is slated to be married to some woman he barely knows, but ...

My Christmas Prince (2017) - Lifetime NOT to be confused with A Prince for Christmas, A Princess for Christmas, or a Christmas Prince... we have My Christmas Prince.  A story about a girl who meets a Prince whose royal family isn't down with this nonsense, until her spunky Americaness wins them all over.  I understand if reading that didn't elicit a Kaiser Soze type response. Samantha (Alexis Knapp) is a hardworking educator living in NYC dating Alexander (Callum Alexander), the charming diplomat from Maldelvia.  These two kids seem to be getting along fabulously, but what Samantha doesn't know is that Alexander is actually the Crown Prince of Maldelvia, not a lowly diplomat, which will be exposed to her when she heads back to Maple Falls Wyoming to hang with the family for the holidays. Sam is a little upset by the deception, but as it turns out he's still the blandly handsome, boring, cardboard stiff dude she's been dating for the past year, so no harm n...

A Crown for Christmas (2015) - Hallmark Soldiering forward with our senseless foray into TV Romantic Christmas movies, with this moment in time consisting of the subset of Royal Romantic Christmas movies, we are heading to the fictional land of Winshire, while spending time with another fabulously named butler in Fergus McDuffin (Pavel Douglas) though he still comes in second to the more fabulously named Paisley Winterbottom. Say hello to Allie (Danica McKellar),  who wakes up in the morning, fresh out of bed, before brushing her teeth, looking like this... Only to be sadly transformed, mere minutes later as she gets ready for a crap job in some crap hotel into looking like this =➤ If we need anymore proof that a job is the absolute worst thing in the world,  Allie the beautiful artist turning into Allie the haggard house maid should close the book on all of that. And the worst part is that she's about to lose this crap job, at Christmas, because her boss is...

A Royal Christmas (2014) - Hallmark We continue our streak of Royal Christmas movies, this time going to the land of Cordonia, but this time with a difference because apparently some people out there have turned watching these Christmas movies into some kind of drinking game!  Why didn't someone tell me this sooner? The lady's name is Brittany Graves and here it the link , But we will list her rules here... Reference to a dead relative Main Character’s name related to Christmas Nick, Holly, Fake Christmas Tree diss Newcomer partakes in an old family tradition Hot chocolate Apple Cider Egg Nogg Near Miss Kiss x2 Obvious Product placement x2 Ugly Sweater or tie x2 Big City person transplanted to small town Christmas Caroling / Tree Farm / Baking Cookies Mistltoe Magic Deal with Santa or angel Hearing Jingle Bells Snowed In x2 Snowing on Christmas Candace Cameron Bure or Lacey Chabert To addendum her rules I would also add actresses...

A Princess for Christmas (2011) - Hallmark This was tad bit disappointing.  Not the movie itself which was what it was, but the only reason I’m watching these Royal Christmas movies is to spend some time in an invented, imaginary country that for some foolish reason still recognizes a monarchy.   This movie here, A Princess for Christmas, couldn’t even take the time to do that for us.   I guess the late Sir Roger Moore, having been knighted and all, felt it was beneath him to be the King of Fakeasscountryistan and instead was just some random Duke who I assume is part of the House of Windsor.    What a disappointment.   Anyway, on to the movie.   Jules (Katy McGrath) is a hardworking… you know what, it doesn’t matter what Jules does or even where she’s from.  Just know that Jules is the guardian of her six year old niece Maddie (Leilah de Meza) and fifteen year old nephew Milo (Travis Turner), because their parents were murdered around C...

A Royal Christmas Ball (2017) - Ion TV Because of the crapterpiece that was ‘A Christmas Prince’, I’ve decided to spend the next few days knocking off Royal Christmas movies.  Why?  Because ‘A Christmas Prince’ was so inspirational we want to experience all the magic that Royal Christmas movies have to offer?  Of course not.  Since using real royals are apparently off limits, we just want to see the names of the fake countries the filmmakers dream up.  That’s pretty much it. Say hello to Charles (Ingo Rademacher), King of the European nation Baltavia!  Not to be confused with the last fake country we visited, Aldovia.  Not quite sure what actual nation the Baltavians were trying to imitate as their accents were all over the place.  Charles was fading in and out with a light European / straight American accent, his ambassador Rosa (Mira Furlan) was rolling heavy Eastern European – the actress is Yugoslav so she was probably speaking in...