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Some movies are so bad, you just feel awful for wasting that precious time when you could have been doing anything else. Some movies are so bad that you can't stop watching, like a trainwreck. Some are so bad that ...
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Hallmark+ wraps up its 'Cherry Lane' stories -- at least for this year -- with Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane. Each of the three films has revisited one of the couples from the original 2023 film, and this one ...
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It's a very big week for new releases heading into Christmas, with the studios pulling out their big guns in the later part of the century to compete for Oscar, Golden Globe and other awards attention. Quite a few of ...
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People have been flocking to the Hallmark Channel for its feel-good Christmas movies for the last fifteen years, with some of this year's crop becoming the most-watched programming on cable television. The Lifetime network has gone through various stages of ...
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Hallmark Channel has long been accused of having a formula for its TV movies, particularly the holiday output. When the network first started its 'Countdown to Christmas' fifteen years ago with just a handful of films, that was more true ...
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As the year winds down, fewer new series are making their debuts, and this week is no exception. What new shows that did premiere were mostly animated, with one new animated series making its debut in each of the three ...
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The Hallmark+ streaming service rolls out the second 'Cherry Lane' sequel ... or is it a prequel ... this week with the premiere of Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane. As with the first two movies, this one also takes place ...
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While the Lifetime channel has turned over its weekends to the 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' holiday movies, sister channel LMN (an initialism for the Lifetime Movie Network, also known as Lifetime Movies) is doing its own thing for the holidays ...
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With Christmas approaching, the studios are rolling out the big movies to draw crowds and court awards organizations, particularly in the latter part of the century. Things really get busy in 1964, which gave an actor and actress their signature ...
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Baltimore is the new Schenectady.  Let me explain.  For years, thanks to its proximity to New York City and a generous tax credit from the state of New York, the folks in Schenectady have been the first audiences ...
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As we all know, Christmas is December 25. But this year December 25 is also the start of Hanukkah, so Hallmark is giving some space to the Festival of Lights with its latest holiday film, Leah's Perfect Gift, starring Emily ...
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People who probably don't watch Hallmark movies like to joke that Hallmark movies have one or two formulas that all the movies follow. There is a popular meme that even suggests scientists are close to finding a second formula for ...
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