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When a TV personality has an on-air snafu and admits she hates Christmas, she is invited to the Most Christmas-y town in the US to try and repair her image. Forced to work with her ex-boyfriend Jack, the show's producer, the magic of Christmas and this special town will change the way she views Christmas and her life. Stars  Lori Loughlin ,  Colin Ferguson , and  Willie Aames. - The Hallmark Channel Director: Ron Oliver Aunt Sally’s Christmas Cookie Company is sold to a large conglomerate and executive Hannah (Wagner) must seal the deal and shut down the factory, which is the small town of Cookie Jar’s lifeblood. What was supposed to be a simple assignment for Hannah becomes complicated when she meets Jake (Brown), the factory owner who’s determined to keep the factory in town. Despite not being a fan of the holiday, the Christmas spirit in this small town is infectious and she gets swept up in the joy of the season while also falling in love. Starring  Jill Wa...

#horses All images are from imdb Director: Willi Patterson Writers: William Corlett (teleplay), and  Pamela Wallace (novel) For the past couple of months I was able to watch fairly enjoyable made for TV movies based on Silhouette/Harlequin/Mills & Boon novels, but I didn't feel like blogging about them. I came across this story when I was looking for the movie called CHRISTMAS COOKIES(2016)  starring Jill Wagner and Wes Brown, but all versions weren't good.  I saw this movie on the right side bar, then clicked it.  What got me hooked was the theme song: I Can't Let Go  Written by  Barry Mason  and  Alan Hawkshaw   Sung by  Marti Webb It was such a beautiful intro that brought chills to my spine.   So I watched KATHLEEN QUINLAN  go to Scotland with her baby sister played by BETSY BRANTLEY to meet the man of her destiny, played by DAVID ROBB. They were so drawn to each other that when he ki...

Gabriel Hogan and Natasha Henstridge Directed by Timothy Bond Written by Kevin Commins In New York City, Kasdan Cresswell Academy is the outcome of a just happened merger between an all girls' school with an all boys' school into a coed school. By the start of Kasdan Creswell's first academic term, not all aspects of the merger have been ironed-out. In what was already a threatened music program at both schools, Kasdan's director of music Diana Thiessen and Creswell's director of music Ken Stoddard still have music teaching jobs in the merger running parallel music programs, it not being clear what will happen to either of their jobs based on monetary issues, with the likelihood that both will have jobs by the end of the completed merger low. Diana and Ken already do not see eye to eye on anything music-related, Diana who teaches in an academic fashion primarily of the classics, while Ken wants his students to have free expression of music, his musical teachi...

NYC-based copy editor, Alex, is sent to Ridgeline Resort, an extreme sports outpost, to write a story for a travel writing competition. At first, she fails at everything - much to the chagrin of Cole, an extreme sports enthusiast who thinks this city girl should head back to New York. But when Alex offers to assist Cole with his local arts festival, he reluctantly obliges to be her guide as she faces her fears doing one extreme sport after the next.   Written by  Happy_Evil_Dude is different from From Amazon.com "Sweet and sensual romance at its best. A must read!" New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster Jessa Hartley is haunted by memories of the night she threw herself at her childhood crush, Dominic DeRenzi – and he turned her away. Years later, Jessa has managed to put the past behind her and climb up the ranks as head instructor of the ski lodge she one day hopes to purchase. Only her plans take a nosedive when the smooth talking Italian shows b...

( source ) First, I have to acknowledge to the great acting of the indefatigable EDDIE GARCIA.  The others were good too, but of course, it was Mr. Garcia who stood out. What did I think of the story? It has good intentions to open the eyes of the millennials and those people who believe that Martial Law was good for us, and is still good for us.  Those who think that the people tortured during the Marcos Rule got their just deserts are surely going to think twice after seeing this movie.  Well, that was the hope of everyone involved in this project. Spoiler alert: Mr. Migue, we really felt we were being tortured too. We felt our nails being pulled, our bodies electrocuted and violated, our minds exploding, and wits diminishing, but we have some concerns: 1.  If the Colonel was time warped, how come he knew how to use a smart phone?; 2. He was watching TV...the news...he was aware of the EJK and current issues, so he had lucid moments, ...

Note:  I love this film so much.  It made me understand Freddie Mercury more, and I appreciated Queen as a whole like I never did before. Directed by Bryan Singer   and towards the end, Dexter Fletcher Produced by Graham King , Jim Beach , Robert De Niro, and Bryan Singer Screenplay by Anthony McCarten Story by Anthony McCarten Peter Morgan When I was a young girl I was very vocal about my views on backmasking, and Queen was one of those I was campaigning against.  I still very much believe about the evils of the subliminal messages of backmasking, but I'm glad to see Freddie Mercury, my nephew's favourite singer, and his band, Queen, beyond backmasking (btw, I know a lot of people who used backmasking to insert good subliminal messages too). This movie has mixed reviews from the critics, most of them would rather have Freddie Mercury as a good for nothing fag (I read somewhere that was what they called him), which was not widely accepted in th...

Directed by  John Bradshaw Writing Credits   Joany Kane ... (written by) and Rickie Castaneda ... (written by) and Kevin Commins ... (written by) Joany Kane Source ... (story "Angel Duty") Stars: Lindy Booth(Carrie), Paul McGillion(Scott), Kiara Glasco(Abby), Derek McGrath(Henry), Marqus Bobesich(Danny/Dimitri), Teresa Pavilinek(Rita), Don Allison(Jefferson/Carrie's dad), Barbara Gordon(Betsy)  and Tricia Braun(Lynette) Carrie Blackford (Booth) lives for her successful career as an event planner in New York City, but her life changes in an instant after a nasty car accident in a snowstorm. Carrie suffers head trauma and regains consciousness in Central Park with an older man, Henry (Derek McGrath, "Little Mosque on the Prairie"). Henry is Carrie's spirit guide and is there to help her "pass over" to Heaven. But before Carrie can move on, she must fulfill one last task on Earth - a type of Angel Duty. Henry tells Carrie t...