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Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s The Christmas Quest
If you thought Hallmark had spared no expense to film Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story on location in Kansas City instead of their usual Canadian venues, then hold on to your hats because the newest 'Countdown to Christmas' movie ...
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TV by the Decade :: December 1•7
Coming out of Thanksgiving and into the holiday season, very few new series made their debuts this week, and only three decades produced anything new. 1994 gave us two different interactive game shows on two different cable networks, while 2000 ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story
After Lifetime's football-themed holiday romance Christmas in the Spotlight, which was a thinly-veiled take on the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance, Hallmark Channel takes to the field with its own football romance, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, which actually has ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Deck the Walls
If you're a fan of Disney movies, you may have noticed that a lot of the storylines are influenced by the death of one parent, sometimes both (Bambi, Frozen). If you've watched any Hallmark 'Countdown to Christmas' movies lately you ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle
Hallmark Channel dives back into the world of Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle with its latest 'Countdown to Christmas' movie, Debbie Macomber's Joyful Mrs. Miracle. Macomber has written four books in the Mrs. Miracle series and Hallmark has now produced four ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark Mystery’s Christmas Under the Lights
After becoming immersed in the Hallmark Channel's 'Countdown to Christmas' movies, we're going to change the channel to Hallmark Mystery as they kick off their 'Miracles of Christmas' series of films. Now when one thinks of a 'mystery', there is ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #227 :: November 28 to December 4
More films were released this week in the top half of the century than the bottom, but quantity doesn't equal quality or memorable films. Of note, a 1924 film features the second appearance of an actor who would go on ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s To Have and to Holiday
Hallmark's latest Christmas flick puts young love to the test, posing the question -- is three months into a relationship too soon to even consider tying the knot? Celeste Palmer's father sure thinks so, and he's determined to prove to ...
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Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Christmas in the Spotlight
Who would have thought we'd have not one but two holiday TV movies this year very loosely based on the real life romance of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? And in an attempt to one-up the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime has ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Three Wiser Men and a Boy
Two years after Three Wise Men and a Baby became the most watched cable TV movie of the year, Hallmark Channel has reunited the cast for the 2024 'Countdown to Christmas' sequel, Three Wiser Men and a Boy, which follows ...
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TV by the Decade :: November 24•30
It's Thanksgiving week in the US, so new series premieres are virtually non-existent, with 2004 giving us a very short-lived family game show, and 2014 delivering four new series and two holiday TV movies. Two of the new shows were ...
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Theatre Review :: Champions of Magic Tour at The Kennedy Center
Magicians have been around for centuries performing their feats of prestidigitation around the globe. Magicians (or anyone who performs some sort of magical feat) have been featured in literature, on stage, in films and TV shows. David Copperfield became a ...
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