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It's the final Festive Friday of the year with a chilling holiday thriller!

Claire's fresh start in the city turns chilling when eerie holiday decorations begin to appear in her apartment, each one a message from someone who knows her too well. Who is the dangerous "Secret Santa" who's watching her?

December 4, 2025 | Lifetime

Director: Peter Sullivan

Writers: Adam Rockoff, Jeffrey Schenck, Peter Sullivan

Cast:

• Ciara Hanna as Claire
• Josh Henderson as Steve
• Justin Cole as Miles
• Michael Silberblatt as Jesse

The movie starts like your typical Christmas movie. Claire, who works in marketing, and Jesse, the town handyman, are decorating the town together and seem like they're setting us up for a cute little Christmas romance. Except Claire just landed a big job in New York and is leaving her hometown of Pine Hollow for the big city.

Her college friend Sloane, who helped get her the job, shows her around NYC. The company hooks Claire up with an absolutely unreal apartment, which immediately makes Jesse insecure. He didn't want to break up, and he doesn't really understand why Claire has to move away.

A neighbor named Miles helps Claire with her Wi-Fi and comes into her apartment to check the modem. He lives next door, and seems like he could be a sketchy ball.

Claire keeps hearing random noises.

Meanwhile, we meet Steve from the end of the hall, who is much suaver than Miles and asks Claire out on a date.

The date goes well, and Claire listens to smooth jazz while making pasta. She hears something in the hallway, but it turns out to just be someone moving into the apartment next door. She asks the doorman about it, and he basically laughs in her face.

The next morning, Claire notices a snow globe from her hometown sitting out on the mantel. She could have sworn she put it away. Then she finds a card with "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?" written on the back.

Claire's voice assistant, Elmer, normally plays nothing but smooth jazz. But then it gets hacked and starts playing Christmas music. Claire and Steve make out, and Elmer refuses to play smooth jazz while they're smooching which makes Claire real mad.

Then she comes home the next day and her ENTIRE HOUSE IS DECORATED, some of it nice, but most of it creepy.

Claire immediately calls the police. Everyone is just as concerned as Claire. Steve and Sloane both offer Claire a place to stay.

Miles turns out to be gay, which pretty much eliminates him as a potential romantic stalker, but does NOT eliminate him as a potential Christmas KILLER. Claire de-decorates her apartment and changes all of her locks.

Unfortunately, that doesn't stop the messages.

Claire asks the maintenance guy for help, and honestly, he's also incredibly creepy. He tells her to get Miles to set up surveillance cameras in her apartment. Miles installs a fire alarm camera, and Claire pretends she's going out of town so they can catch the intruder in the act.

Miles and Claire stay up watching the camera and eventually catch the intruder red-handed, which they do...well, kinda. They only see what hat he's wearing.

Claire finds a hat in Steve's apartment that she recognizes from the surveillance footage and leaves very scared and he's like wtf? She goes back to the detectives and they search Steve's apartment, find some evidence, and things are NOT looking good for our guy.

Claire decides to go back through the surveillance footage when she finds out that Steve is actually cleared by a solid alibi. She notices a reflection in the mirror in the footage.

IT'S THE HANDYMAN FROM HER HOMETOWN. JESSE!!!!

Jesse shows up at Claire's apartment and Claire starts throwing EVERYTHING she can find at him. Unfortunately, Jesse manages to grab her and drag her into his secret hideout.

He explains that he thought if Claire believed the city was dangerous enough, she would move back home and be with him. Claire hits him with a wrench and screams!

One week later, Claire is thriving. Everyone at work thinks she's incredible at her new job. She starts dating Steve and tells him she's finally home with him.

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We're back and it's time to breakdown the second batch of Hallmark Christmas movies! 

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Rory returns from Washington, D.C. for the First Annual Stars Hollow End of Summer Madness Festival. She realizes her feelings for Jess might be a lot stronger than she thought. Lorelai is having strong feelings of her own.

September 24, 2002 | The WB

• Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
• Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore

Lorelai wakes up to the sounds of a TONNNN of alarm clocks. She yells down "you are hilarious!" When she comes down, Luke is down there making breakfast. Why is he at her house making breakfast? THEY KISS! AND SHE'S PREGNANT WITH TWINS! Except womp womp it's a dream. She wakes up and immediately grabs the phone to call Rory and asks her to please come home. She tells her all about her dream. Rory is like oh clearly you're in love with him and want to have his babies. Lorelai is like nope try again. Rory is like ok maybe you're upset about dad and the fact that he's having a baby with another woman. They're talking on the phone because Rory is still in DC but she comes home on Friday. She wakes up and we see that Dean has written her a ton of letters. But she's not writing Dean a letter, she's writing Jess!

Later, Lorelai is over at Sookie & Jackson's. She wants to paint the house but Jackson isn't having it.

Taylor is in a wheelchair thanks to someone leaving a banana on his front porch. The town is busy decorating for the end of summer madness festival and Taylor is PUMPED!!!! Lorelai walks by Luke's and just looks at him and then keeps walking.

Back in DC, we meet a dude named Jamie who is all chummy with Rory & Paris. He wants to get dinner with Paris to "prep" for the debate. Rory is like he just asked you out on a date! Paris wasn't aware and starts freaking out!!!

Meanwhile at the inn, Kirk is there trying to sell his hay skincare product. Lorelai gets a call from her mom and she's upset that Lorelai didn't call her to welcome them home from the vineyard.

Rory is on the phone with Dean. He's very excited to see her. She has to hang up cuz Paris is FREAKING out. After she leaves, Rory gets right back to writing Jess a letter.

So Lorelai hasn't told her parents about Christopher and Emily really wants him to come to dinner.

She goes to pick up Rory from the airport and it's big excitement! She tells her that she got her out of Friday night dinner so that she can hang out with Dean. She doesn't seem thrilled for some reason.

Rory comes home and immediately changes into a dress for some reason. When they make it to the summer festival, she sees Jess making out with a girl and she gets a bit upset much to Lorelai's surprise. Rory tells her about the kiss. Lorelai encourages her to figure out what the heck she wants because she's now officially treating Dean like dirt. Naturally, Dean walks up and Rory kisses him.

Lorelai makes it to her parents' and is struggling to tell them about Christopher. She finally does and it doesn't go well and leads to Emily & Richard arguing and Lorelai ducks out.

She makes it back to Stars Hollow and goes to talk to Luke. Apparently they're actually still mad at each other. That doesn't stop her from opening up to him about Christopher. He slides her down a donut.

When Lorelai gets home, Rory is already there. They make up and talk. She wants to stay with Dean.

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It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review!

A statue of an English knight arrives in Chicago for an art exhibit. While cleaning the statue, museum conservator Emily impulsively kisses the statue, bringing him to life.

October 3, 2026 | Hallmark

Director: Kevin Fair

Writers: Bryn Donovan, Michelle Ricci

Cast:

• Julie Gonzalo as Emily
• James Trevena as Sir Griffin

We're in Essex, England in 1428 and a knight is on a horse. He's Sir Griffin de Beauford and he makes a wish upon some stars. The stars end up coming together and he suddenly turns to stone!

We meet Emily Porter who helps curate a museum and they just got a new entry - a statue that was found out in a field after hundreds of years. Emily gets to work on cleaning him up. While cleaning him up, she sees some words engraved on it that say he'll only wake up after a kiss. She's like why the heck not and kisses him right on the lips and wouldn't you know it but he comes right to life. She quickly moves him to her apartment and he's shocked by cars and running water. After helping people like a knight does, she takes him to a medieval festival. He learns about the history of his people and it really throws him for a loop. Apparently his rival ended up marrying his ex-girlfriend. So that's tough. She tells him that history says that he disappeared on his wedding day. They start getting real close to each other. The sparks are flying. She gives him her hair tie for luck and he gives her his new hat.

But things aren't all on the up and up - her ex-husband is suspicious of this guy and as an FBI agent, he decides he's just gonna start an investigation because the armor is missing from the museum.

Bad news, he's slowly starting to turn to stone. Unless he gets a kiss from his true love, he'll turn to stone forever. Luckily, Emily loves him.

He ends up getting arrested but she helps get him released. He runs away cuz he's turning to stone but she finds him and kisses him. No more stone for that guy!

4 months later, they're doing medieval reenactments together and they're gonna go on a world tour!

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It's Marvel Monday and the antiheroes assemble!

After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must go on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

May 2, 2025 | Theatrical Release

Director: Jake Schreier

Writers: Eric Pearson, Joanna Calo, Kurt Busiek

Cast:

• Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
• Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
• Lewis Pullman as Robert Reynolds
• David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov
• Wyatt Russell as John Walker
• Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr

Things kick off with Yelena blowing up a laboratory for CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Why? Valentina is trying to erase any evidence connecting her to the O.X.E. Group and its mysterious "Project Sentry."

With Valentina facing impeachment, she decides the best way to clean up her mess is to send four of her former operatives—Yelena, John Walker, Ava Starr, and Antonia Dreykov—to a secret O.X.E. facility with one very simple instruction: kill each other.

Naturally, things don't go according to plan.

Ava kills Antonia, but then a random dude named Bob shows up and he doesn't seem to know how he got there. The group quickly realizes they weren't sent there to complete a mission—they were sent there to be killed alongside the evidence of Valentina's crimes. So they decide to work together. After coming into contact with Bob, Yelena and Walker also experience disturbing visions of some of their worst memories.

Valentina learns the group survived and discovers that Bob was actually a presumed-dead volunteer from the Sentry experiments. When she arrives at the facility, Bob draws enemy fire so Yelena, Walker, and Ava can escape. The problem is that Bob is apparently bulletproof, can fly, and has absolutely no idea what is happening to him.

Bob is eventually captured and taken to Manhattan where Valentina plans to introduce Bob to the public as a new superpowered hero, hoping the PR stunt will save her from impeachment.

Yelena's father figure Alexei overheard Valentina's plan while working as a freelance chauffeur and comes to rescue her. John Walker sarcastically gives the group a name—the Thunderbolts—inspired by Yelena's childhood soccer team.

Things get even messier when Congressman Bucky Barnes learns what's happened. With the help of Valentina's assistant Mel, who suspects Valentina might be the bad guy, Bucky captures the Thunderbolts and plans to have them testify during Valentina's impeachment proceedings. But after learning what happened to Bob, the group decides their new priority is getting into the Watchtower and finding him.

They discover that Valentina has convinced Bob to become a superhero called Sentry. Unfortunately, Sentry is basically unstoppable. He easily takes down the Thunderbolts, but refuses to kill them when Valentina orders him to, believing they're not actually a threat. Then Bob starts to lose control.

As his power grows, Bob turns against Valentina. Mel uses a failsafe kill switch to incapacitate him, but instead of solving the problem, it unleashes something much, much worse: the Void.

The Void is Bob's destructive alter ego, born from his depression, insecurities, trauma, and the effects of the Sentry procedure. And now it's taking over New York City, covering the city in darkness and trapping people inside visions of their own worst memories.

The Thunderbolts realize that the only way to stop the Void is to reach Bob from the inside, so Yelena enters the darkness and is forced to confront her own traumatic past as a Black Widow. Eventually, she finds Bob hiding in a recreation of his childhood bedroom.

The rest of the Thunderbolts join her, and together they make their way through Bob's memories. They find the Void, but it absolutely wrecks them.

Bob tries to fight back, but the Void is threatening to completely consume him. That's when the Thunderbolts do the one thing that no one else has been able to do: they remind Bob that he's not alone. They hug him, tell him they believe in him, and somehow manage to give him the strength to take control of the Void.

The darkness disappears, New York is saved, and everyone gets their memories back.

With the Void defeated, the Thunderbolts are ready to finally take Valentina down. But Valentina has one more trick up her sleeve. She holds a press conference and announces that the Thunderbolts are actually the NEW AVENGERS, taking credit for everything they just accomplished.

The team reluctantly goes along with it, but Yelena makes sure Valentina knows exactly where they stand.

"We own you now."

And honestly? She isn't wrong.

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It's Festive Friday with a terrifying Christmas Eve thriller!

On Christmas Eve, a mother desperate to reconnect with her estranged family is abducted by a Serial Killer and forced to help him flee the country.

2025 | Streaming

Director: Thomas Pickering

Writer: James Pickering

Cast:

• Levi Heaton as Marie
• Roger Bingham as Donald
• Isabella Percival

It's September 22nd. A woman pulls into a parking garage and is waiting for the elevator when someone starts to whistle. She starts looking around and the lights go off. When the lights come back on, she's gone and only her shoe remains.

Cut to the holiday season, a radio show is taking calls about a serial killer who is on the loose. It's December 24th and a girl is driving her car, listening to Christmas music. She stops on the side of the road to pee. When she gets back into the car, she sees someone is in the backseat. She tries to run, but he stops her. He tells her to start the car. Turns out, her keys are outside. This gives her time to light her jacket on fire and throw it on him but it doesn't work out too well and he ends up killing her and putting her in the trunk. He uses that car to make another car stop and forces this new woman to drive him somewhere but won't tell her where.

Throughout the movie, we see other women that were murdered.

This dude is trying to get out of the country and she's like let's go to the river and you can leave that way. When they get there, she takes him down and then it's revealed that she's actually the serial killer, not him....I think. I gotta be honest, I'm not sure.

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It's time to breakdown the first batch of Hallmark Christmas movies! 

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These 2 movies MATTER! 

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It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review!

A headstrong marina owner teams up with the local pumpkin farmer to resurrect their lakeside town's beloved Pumpkin Regatta after a family feud cancels it, igniting old wounds and new sparks in the process.

September 26, 2026 | Hallmark

Director: Liz Farrer

Writer: Kate Pragnell

Cast:

• Mishael Morgan as Nadine Brooks
• Corey Sevier as Ethan King

Nadine is hanging out with her friend and they're both bemoaning the fact that her dad is cancelling the pumpkin regatta festival. Why is it cancelled? Well, apparently her dad George is mad at his old best buddy Andrew. There were cheating allegations thrown out there about who won the last race. So no more race!!!

Andrew's son, Ethan, is hot. And he is encouraging his dad to just talk to George and bury the hatchet. Nadine is trying to get her dad to do the same, with no luck. Nadine decides to reach out to Ethan to talk about how they might be able to reconcile their dads. And the sparks are FLYING when these 2 get together. They decide to just start planning the regatta in hopes that their dads reconcile beforehand. Luckily, that means that they're spending plenty of time together. They even bake some cake pops and he touches her face a dozen times. They carve up a giant pumpkin and have a pumpkin guts fight which leads to him taking his shirt off.

They go to get a bite to eat and they talk about their feelings and they almost kiss but pull back - they're keeping this professional!

So the planning is in full force but they keep having to hide it from their dads because they're still not interested in patching things up.

They're setting up for the race and Ethan shoots his shot and they kiss big ones! Her dad walks up and goes WHOA! He finds out that she's been planning the regatta without his knowledge. He's not thrilled. In fact, he's disappointed.

The next day, the dads end up making up. The race is on!!!

Nadine and Ethan talk and he gives her some sunflowers. She says it's time to go on a proper date.

The race happens and the kid who the money was going towards ends up winning, so good for him.

Nadine and Ethan celebrate with a kiss.

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