Category: Movies & TV

Movie Review: The September Issue (2009)

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During the sort-of social media/blogging break I recently took, I fell into a rabbit’s hole of watching movies on YouTube’s movie and TV show channel. I couldn’t go out and watch movies in the movie theater like I wanted to, so watching the channel really helped me feed my need for new movies without needing to leave the house.

Even though YouTube offers movies that can be bought or rented, I prefer the free with ads section. Basically, you can watch the movies and TV shows without paying a fee to watch them. You do need to sit through ads, but I never noticed if they are more annoying or intrusive than watching normal YouTube videos with ads.

After watching many of the movies available for free with ads, I found The September Issue. I watched it many years ago, but I forgot most of the movie. Since it was available to watch, I thought it was the perfect chance to watch it again, but this time for free.

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Movie Review: Drive Me Crazy (1999)

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Over the years, I’ve been looking for teen movies to watch from the 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s. One of the movies I wanted to watch is Drive Me Crazy. I didn’t remember it well, so I wanted to re watch it. I had the chance to recently, so I wanted to write a review about it. Continue reading “Movie Review: Drive Me Crazy (1999)” →

Movie Review: Riverdance: The Show (1995)

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When I was growing up in the 1990’s, I didn’t have many TV channels to choose from. Back then, I didn’t see it as a good thing. (Especially since I wanted to watch the Disney Channel all the time and we couldn’t get it!) Today, I’m happy I grew up with a limited amount of TV channels because it forced me to not rely on the TV for entertainment and it exposed me to TV shows and specials that I never would’ve seen any other way. One of those TV programs is Riverdance.

Saint Patrick’s day is coming soon, so I thought a review of the original Riverdance would make a great post to commemorate the holiday.
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Movie Review- Love on Safari (2018)

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While obeying the State of Arizona’s order to stay at home throughout the month of April, I became so sick and tired of watching whatever was on TV that I began to watch many of the DVDs I never watched in my DVD collection. I was always too busy to watch them, but now I can work or do whatever I desire while watching them.

Around Valentine’s Day, I purchased some Hallmark Channel videos at Walmart. One of the was Love on Safari. Out of all the DVDs I purchased at that time, I was the most excited to watch Love on Safari. In February, I was able to watch it, enjoyed it, and set it aside to watch all the others. Since I’m at home watching my DVDs, I decided to start by rewatching Love on Safari.

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Movie Review- Royal Hearts (2018)

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In March 2021, I wandered through Walmart’s movie and music section to see if there is anything new to buy and watch or listen to. It was before Easter, so there was many Easter themed movies available. Among them were a few movies from the Hallmark Channel. Some of them interested me, but the one that caught my eye the most was Royal Hearts.

I bought it and watched it last year, but after seeing it, I thought it would make a great Valentine’s Day movie. Because of this, I decided to post my review about the movie close to Valentine’s Day. Continue reading “Movie Review- Royal Hearts (2018)” →

Full-Length Nutcracker Performances That You Can Watch on YouTube Now- 2021

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It’s the time of the year when ballets all over the world are performing the classic Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker. 2021 is the first year when audiences will be able to watch the performances in person after the start of the Corona/ Coivd-19 pandemic started in 2020. Even though many ballet companies are holding live performances of the ballet with live audiences, there are still many ballet companies that posted the full show of their Nutcracker performances on YouTube to watch. Here are my favorite versions of the ballet that can be see as of the publishing of this post.

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Movie Review: The Christmas Ornament (2013)

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A few years ago, I purchased a four movie DVD set of Hallmark Christmas movies. I already watched these movies, but I decided to purchase the set anyway. The reason is because I wanted to keep a copy of each of the movies in a place where I knew I would spend a lot of time and would probably need a cheerful holiday movie to brighten my spirits. The four movie set was the most economical way to accomplish this.

Recently, I started going through the DVDs I kept in the area and rediscovered the DVD set. I was going through a very stressful time and began watching the movies in the set to cheer me up and give me some piece. One of the movies from the set is The Christmas Ornament. Continue reading “Movie Review: The Christmas Ornament (2013)” →

Movie Review- The Most Wonderful Time of The Year (2008)

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Earlier this year, I began to search through YouTube to see what new videos I could watch while I worked. After a while, I stumbled across the YouTube Movies channel. Although YouTube Movies have movies available for sale or rental, the channel also have movies to watch for free. There are movies of various kinds to watching, including family friendly movies and holiday movies from the Hallmark Channel. One of the holiday movies that I wanted to watch is The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

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Movie Review- Santa’s Boots (2018)

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In a previous post, I reviewed a Lifetime Christmas movie, A Christmas in Tennessee, that I purchased as part of a two movie DVD set. After watching the movie, I watched the second movie in the set: Santa’s Boots.

Santa’s Boots stars Megan Hilty, Noah Mills, Roark Critchlow, Garry Chalk, Teryl Rothery, Patrica Issac, Andrea Brooks, Matt Hamilton, and June Squbb. The movie is about a woman named Holly (Hilty) who lives in Seattle and recently received a promotion at work. During her Christmas vacation, she returns to her home town and to see her family, who runs a department store. After visiting her friend, who works at the department store, she abruptly fills in as an elf at the store’s Santa area after discovering the only elf was sick. After working with the handsome and kindhearted Santa, whose name just so happens to be Nick, she begins to discover the department store is having financial trouble and is looking to sell to a larger company. Continue reading “Movie Review- Santa’s Boots (2018)” →

Movie Review: Jingle All The Way (1996)

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During the 1990’s, there seemed to be a lot of holiday themed movies targeted to children. I didn’t mind this because I was a child back then and loved nearly every single movie released during this time. One of the movies that I really loved back then was Jingle All The Way.

In October 2021, YouTube allowed Jingle All The Way to be watched for free with ads. I took advantage of this and re watched the movie. I really enjoyed watching the movie again, so I decided to write a movie review about it for Blogmas 2021. Continue reading “Movie Review: Jingle All The Way (1996)” →