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One man's foolhardy quest to watch a Christmas movie every day for a whole damn year.
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Gary Jive
Nov 16, 20243 min read
Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square (2020) - Day 326, November 16th
Argh...the horror! The next festive 'treat' that Netflix offers up is 2020's Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square, a full-on holiday...
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Gary Jive
Nov 15, 20243 min read
El Camino Christmas (2017) - Day 325, November 15th
2017's El Camino Christmas tries to be a lot of different things at once but ends up very underwhelming. This tale of a mysterious...
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Gary Jive
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Just Another Christmas (2020) - Day 324, November 14th
Just Another Christmas is a fascinating foreign import from 2020, a Brazilian-made comedy drama with an ambitious, mind-bending premise....
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Gary Jive
Nov 13, 20243 min read
The Claus Family (2020) - Day 323, November 13th
2020's The Claus Family is something else entirely, a film that feels at odds with most of the Netflix films I've seen so far, but still...
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Gary Jive
Nov 12, 20243 min read
The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) - Day 322, November 12th
Here we go again - in 2020, Margaret, Stacey and co returned with The Princess Switch: Switched Again. Since last we met, Stacey and...
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Gary Jive
Nov 11, 20243 min read
The Princess Switch (2018) - Day 321, November 11th
Next day, pressing ‘play’ on 2018 Vanessa Hugdens vehicle The Princess Switch creates a horrible, hollow feeling in my stomach. How many...
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Gary Jive
Nov 10, 20242 min read
Holiday Rush (2019) - Day 320, November 10th
2019's Holiday Rush stars Romany Malco, paired up with The Walking Dead's Sonequa Martin-Green, exhibiting a chemistry that positively...
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Gary Jive
Nov 9, 20242 min read
Operation Christmas Drop (2020) - Day 319, November 9th
2020’s Operation Christmas Drop puts us firmly back in cookie-cutter yuletide romcom territory. At least this one has splashed its...
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Gary Jive
Nov 8, 20243 min read
Father Christmas is Back (2021) - Day 318, November 8th
Next up is Father Christmas is Back, a 2021 ensemble British comedy drama that sells itself as a rude, risque sex comedy but feels more...
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Gary Jive
Nov 7, 20243 min read
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) - Day 317, November 7th
Watching 2020's star-studded kids fantasy Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey proves a jarring experience as, after sitting through lots...
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Gary Jive
Nov 6, 20243 min read
Love Hard (2021) - Day 316, November 6th
Well bugger me, just as I'm starting to feel like I've had enough, along comes a film that restores my faith in modern Christmas movies,...
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Gary Jive
Nov 5, 20243 min read
A Christmas Prince 3: The Royal Baby (2019) - Day 315, November 5th
In 2019 the gang returned for A Christmas Prince 3: The Royal Baby and, sadly, this one feels much more like an uninspired cash grab,...
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Gary Jive
Nov 4, 20242 min read
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (2018) - Day 314, November 4th
Having plundered the plot of a thousand royal romance movies before it for part one, A Christmas Prince: A Royal Wedding was left with...
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Gary Jive
Nov 3, 20242 min read
A Christmas Prince (2017) - Day 313, November 3rd
I'm definitely getting deja vu with 2017's A Christmas Prince. If that title didn't tell you all you need to know, this is yet another...
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Gary Jive
Nov 2, 20242 min read
Christmas Inheritance (2017) - Day 312, November 2nd
Normal service is resumed with Christmas Inheritance, an identikit 2017 romcom cheesefest about an ambitious heiress getting a reality...
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Gary Jive
Nov 1, 20242 min read
Christmas Crossfire (2020) - Day 311, November 1st
Aware that the romantic Xmas films have been getting to me, for my next film I hunt down a Netflix Christmas flick that’s not remotely...
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Gary Jive
Oct 31, 20242 min read
The Holiday Calendar (2018) - Day 310, October 31st
Further evidencing Netflix’s desire to diversify the Christmas romance blueprint, 2018’s The Holiday Calendar brings another original...
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Gary Jive
Oct 30, 20242 min read
Holiday in the Wild (2019) - Day 309, October 30th
2019’s Holiday in the Wild has the feel of a standard Hallmark-y romcom but with one gigantic secret weapon - a huge budget. Turns out a...
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Gary Jive
Oct 29, 20243 min read
The Knight Before Christmas (2019) - Day 308, October 29th
We crank things up a notch next with 2019’s time travel fantasy romance fluff The Knight Before Christmas which is wish-fulfilment tosh...
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Gary Jive
Oct 28, 20243 min read
A California Christmas (2020) - Day 307, October 28th
With A California Christmas, Netflix jumped onboard the cheesy Hallmark/Lifetime train with their own opposites-attract big city business...
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​ Scientists say that “watching Christmas movies all year round can be a benefit to your health.” But what would happen if you watched them every day for a year? One man decided to find out.
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- Gary Jive
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